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crooksandliars.com - 3/27/2009
Joe the Plumber gets another gig
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This is not a joke. Americans for Prosperity, an anti-Employee Free Choice Act group, is hiring Joe the Plumber to speak at rallies against the average working class in America. Joe the Plumber is hitting the campaign trail again! He’s been pressed into service to do a series of events ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/1/2009
Joe The Plumber Admits He Knows “Little” About EFCA, Gets Jeered By Workers
— theplumline.whorunsgov.com — Oof. Looks like Joe the Plumber's campaigning against the Employee Free Choice Act in Pennsylvania didn't go... so well. (more) Joe The Plumber Admits He Knows “Little” About EFCA, ...

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theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 3/26/2009
Joe The Plumber Enlisted To Campaign Against Employee Free Choice Act
— theplumline.whorunsgov.com — Joe the Plumber is back on the campaign trail! He's scheduled to do a series of events... throughout Pennsylvania rallying opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, the organizer of the events confirms. (more) Joe The Plumber Enlisted To Campaign Against Employee ...

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Joe the Plumber stumped on Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I don’t know everything about everything.’
thinkprogress.org - 4/1/2009
Joe the Plumber stumped on Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I don’t know everything about everything.’
— thinkprogress.org — Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber,” is currently in Pennsylvania shilling against the Employee... Free Choice Act on behalf of the anti-labor group Americans for Prosperity. As ThinkProgress reported, Wurzelbacher ... (more) Joe the Plumber stumped on Employee Free Choice Act: ‘I ...

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WTF Is It Now?!? — Never underestimate the stupidity of the American peo conservatard. Bonus:

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Wonk Room — ... effort to reform the health care system as a government take-over that will ration care and care and deny treatments. Americans for Prosperity is notorious for its fake grassroots efforts, funneling millions of dollars into conservative campaigns designed to undermine Democratic initiatives. As Lee Fang put it, “AFP is a professional AstroTurf machine”: - Hosted ‘Drill Baby, Drill’ rallies around the country. - Financed Joe the Plumber’s tour against the Employees’ Free Choice Act and other ...

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Real plumbers rip Joe the Plumber for shilling against the Employee Free Choice Act.
thinkprogress.org 3/27/2009 — Greg Sargent reports that Joe the Plumber by the anti-labor Americans for Prosperity to do “a series of events throughout Pennsylvania rallying opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act .” Here’s why Americans for Prosperity ...
Joe The Plumber To Campaign With Specter’s Conservative Challenger…
GrassrootsPA.com 3/28/2009 — Joe The Plumber To Campaign With Specter’s Conservative Challenger…
Now Specter's Toast — Talking Points Memo
Sen. Arlen Specter's probable primary challenger Pat Toomey teams up with Joe The Plumber.
Toomey, Joe the Plumber campaign against EFCA — News
Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher and Pat Toomey will be joining forces against card-check next week. The conservative duo will both appear at a March 31 "save my ballot" rally in Philadelphia. (hat tip: Greg Sargent.) The event–one of three that Americans for Prosperity will hold in ...
Pat Toomey To Join With Joe The Plumber, Against EFCA — TPM Election Central
In yet another sign that former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA) is on the verge of challenging Arlen Specter in the 2010 Republican primary -- a rematch of their 51%-49% battle in 2004 -- Greg Sargent reports that Toomey will appearing at rallies in Pennsylvania alongside a top GOP leader: Samuel "Joe ...
Joe the Plumber hates America's working men and women — The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings He's back. As if "reporting" from Israel wasn't enough, Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher will be campaigning against the Employee Free Choice Act : Mr. Plumber will speak at rallies against the measure in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia on March 30th and 31st, ...
The Road to Republican Recovery — If I Ran the Zoo
Not everyone is laughing at the Republican not-really-a-budget (which might as well have been written by not-really-Joe the not-really-a-plumber). Jennifer Rubin, for example, thinks it's just swell : While they have yet to spell out exact figures or provide the comprehensive budget itself, the ...
Joe The Plumber With Yer Cuppa Joe? — DownWithTyranny!
Sometimes when we have a humor story we save it for the end of the day. But last night we wanted to get out the more serious post about reactionary Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with the GOP to make our cities' streets less safe from heavy weapons and to make women less safe in matters ...
New Hope for the Employee Free Choice Act — Daily Kos
After Arlen Specter's craven decision to abandon his long-standing support of the Employee Free Choice Act in a (likely futile) effort to appease the yahoo PA GOP primary electorate, a lot of folks were left feeling pessimistic about the future of the Act.  Well, fret no more : Joe the ...
— Hullabaloo
All Hail Joe The Plumber by tristero Gail Collins. David Brooks. William Kristol. Thomas Friedman. With stiff competition like that, it's hard to believe, but I think that Nick Kristof may get the prize for having typed the stupidest thing ever written by a Times columnist . It starts off ...
Thoreau the Plumber — Unqualified Offerings
By Thoreau I admit it: I'm in Joe the Plumber territory with some of my opposition to the bailout. I don't claim to understand all of it, but I've got a knee-jerk instinct that this just ain't right and I'm not about to let somebody try to sell me some snake ...