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Your Modern GOP
Eschaton —
Just a ridiculous bunch of clowns.
Economist of The People
Matthew Yglesias —
... If he’s going to be an economic adviser to the House GOP, perhaps he should consider changing his name back to Samuel Wurzelbacher. That sounds more economist-y than Joe The Plumber. Somebody should tell him, though, about all the tax cuts in the stimulus package. ...
Joe the Plumber Creates a Crisis of Confidence
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... Is this what we've come to? Republicans lawmakers listen to conservative experts and Democratic lawmakers listen to liberal experts, and because everyone listens to people who will tell them what they want to hear the idea of expertise is rendered meaningless, thus opening the door for ...
With his Weird Cologne and his Magic Hair
The Poor Man Institute —
... But we are living in a world that is outpacing me in its back-assward march to nowhere in particular, fast. Just today I learn that the GOP is turning to Joe the Plumber Reporter Douchebag Economist for advice on what form of economic stimulus would be most efficacious at this most dire of junctures. ...
Today's Republican Party
The Reaction —
By Creature From Joe the Plumber as economic consultant to Sen. Thune and his mile-high, trillion-dollar chart, it really seems the GOP has jumped the shark. Don't they know 70% of the country is in no mood for their crap?
So Lonely ... So Very Lonely
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda —
... Can you imagine the desperation of these assclowns?
The ubiquitous Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber” and “Joe the War Correspondent,”
will soon add a new moniker to his profile — “Joe the Economist.”
Politico reports that House GOP congressional aides decided to invite
Wurzelbacher to a meeting on the stimulus in hopes that it will attract some media attention.
Yes, I know, he managed not to get himself killed or kidnapped when he was in Gaza. ...
Revenge of the Village
Balloon Juice —
... high in the WH power structure. This was not an administration pursuing illegal firing of justice department employees for ideological reasons. This was not, well, do I really need to go through all of them again?
I really can not wait to see what happens on Friday when the unemployment numbers hit 8%, and the Republicans have spent the week blocking the stimulus package and lying about government spending not being stimulus all while getting their economic advice from a plumber, and the village has spent two weeks playing the same old games- “Is he ...
Keeping It Real
Balloon Juice —
Chief Republican economic advisor Joe the Plumber speaks:
And no reason to be subtle, he said, as long as folks inform themselves. “I don’t believe there’s two sides to every story. It’s black and white,” Wurzelbacher explained. “There’s right and wrong.”
One thing that needs to be done, he said, is killing this stimulus package, because it’s just another example of “American government” — Republicans and Democrats — “kicking our butts left and ...
Joe the Plumber: ?I don’t know if the American public deserve me.?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... ” — became “ Joe the Economist ” when he went and spoke to a House GOP breakfast on the economic recovery package. The New York Daily News ...
