The Wurzelbacher Party?
C'mon, Republicans. Really? Having Samuel "Joe the plumber" Wurzelbacher address your gathering?
And having him in to talk about the President's stimulus package?
According to Politico, a staff-member of Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) sent an email to members of Congress, gushing, "In case you weren’t planning to attend...you might want to reconsider because Joe the Plumber will be joining us!”
The GOP is mostly mum about what Wurzelbacher said. But Politico reports that Wurzelbacher advised Republican congressional leaders to "go in there and kick some ass."
Ah, statesmanship.
"He’s an interesting person for staffers to hear from," one conservative told Politico, "and it certainly helps us get an understanding about how the stimulus debate is playing out in the country with regular folks.”
Sigh.
posted by Brian Mann @ 2/04/2009 06:13:00 AM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
To put it politely, I think our goose is cooked. It's one thing when "the people" vote for what they want to hear even when it's impossible. In fact I've always thought the Republican's crowning achievement was getting people to vote against their own interests. Now in desperation they have turned to drinking their own kool-aid!
Joe the Plumber is the best case of someone who voted against his own best interest. He somehow misunderstood that if he bought a company for $250,000 he would have to pay higher income tax because Obama's plan lowered taxes on people making less than $250,000.
On the other hand, he seems to have a new and promising career as oa journalist...in which case, our goose isn't just cooked, it's on fire and running around the barn!
J.T. Plumber is one that has let his 15 minutes quickly go to his head. "Go in there and kick some ass"... now there's something substantive... and the GOP is taking this man seriously? There's a couple hundred million other "regular folks" in this country that the GOP may want to listen to and I'll bet quite a number of them have a far better understanding of economic issues than Mr. Plumber. But I have to admit, it's entertaining... in a Saturday Night Live skit sort of way.
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