GOP Deathwatch with Joe the Reaper.
In further evidence of how close the ravaged body of the GOP is to taking in its last rattling death gasp….the party is no longer good enough even for (wait for it) Joe the Plumber. That’s right, Joe (not his name) the Plumber (not licensed) is now also, no longer a Republican. Joe feels that the Republican party is spending too much money. We may wish to ask ourselves where Joe the Plumber has for the past eight years?
Remember when Joe told a room full of devoted Republicans “All this love and everything in the room – I’m horny.” Well, alas, the love is gone. And the Republican party has lost another one. They are now without the second most embarrassing person John McCain ever associated with.
So if he’s not a Joe and not a plumber and not a Republican, what exactly IS he? Will he become Ron Paul’s sidekick? Cynthia McKinney’s l’il green buddy? Or will he go rogue and start Joe the Party? We wait with bated breath. And we all have mixed emotions about Arlen Specter, but please oh please don’t let him become a Democrat.
TalkingPointsMemo has a Joe The Plumber retrospective in pictures. Definitely worth taking in, although I noticed they passed up on Joe The Horny Guy:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/photofeatures/2009/05/thanks-for-the-memories-joe-the-plumber-bids-gop-adieu.php?img=1
Thanks for the memories for sure, Joe. How ’bout taking your girlfriend with ya’?
Old Dyke Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Perhaps a urinal cake with a candle would be the appropriate congratulatory gift for Joe for leaving the GOP?
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Only if the urinal cake is used and the candle is being shoved up his … maggots.
Perhaps a urinal cake with a candle would be the appropriate congratulatory gift for Joe for leaving the GOP?
81 the problem child IS MY NAME Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 11:17 AM
The visuals are a HOOT!
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Yup – that is funny !!
76 zyggy Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 8:23 AM
I wonder who that leach will attach himself to now? I really don’t have a clue, but he needs to fade away and get a job like the rest of us. He’s a bloodsucker, and an idiot.
I wonder if he’ll move to Alaska and attach himself to Palin?
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Hey – He lived there once……..might go back…….
“See, Joe is a moron or more accurately is aggressively ignorant. He said that people don’t understand the dictionary; “it’s called queer”, “that means strange, unusual”, he goes on to drool.
So, here I offer you a visual definition of the word, just to clarify. Maybe it will help Joe out a little. He seems very confused.”
http://thisrockyroad.blogspot.com/2009/05/queer.html
The visuals are a HOOT!
This guy is fair to call a homophobe.
zyggy: I wonder if he’ll move to Alaska and attach himself to Palin?
I hear she needs someone to respond to phone calls and invitations and schedule her appointements (more than 3 minutes before events occur).
oh gawd… I hope he doesn’t go to Alaska. You poor people have had enough of those with fewer brain cells than a Hydra. However, it wouldn’t surprise me. The AIP probably has him on speed dial.
@zyggy, “Joe” (otherwise known as “Samuel”) did live in AK at one time. I do think he might try to ride the AIP gravy train with her.
I wonder who that leach will attach himself to now? I really don’t have a clue, but he needs to fade away and get a job like the rest of us. He’s a bloodsucker, and an idiot.
I wonder if he’ll move to Alaska and attach himself to Palin?
lol
wwsc, yes he does have a birthday every year, but he doesn’t have YOU bringing him coffee. Loser.
wwsc: “I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person!” atttibuted to Walt Kelly, the cartoonist who drew Pogo (of “We have met the enemy and he is us” fame).
Note to GOP: tick tock tick tock tick tock.
So as to not be too OT, notjoenotplumber has a birthday once a year too, and maybe he even drinks coffee! (sorry, I’m a little giddy this morning for some reason).
Happy birthday to the guy who is getting his coffee from wwsc… one lucky guy!
Grammar is cool; coffee is better.
What’s that old saying about not having a battle of wits with the witless? On that note I’m going to go do something more constructive, like fixing my hubby a cup of coffee on his birthday morning.
Paula Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 5:59 AM
I hear he joined the Brotherhood of the Unemplumbered.
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LMAO!
That’s ‘plural possesive’! See? Imperfect as well! So much for prufreedin!
I think my favorite part of notjoenotplumber’s brief career in the spotlight was when he was a foreign correspondent for Pajamas Media in Israel. He managed to be dumb, dumber, and dumbest all at the same time, with dummy sprinkles on top.
Why would anybody be “worried” about notjoenotplumber? lol. We’re just tired of the dumb things that come out of his mouth. KInda like we’re tired of the dumb things that come out of Palin’s mouth. She may be the gift that keeps on giving, but at some point it becomes more like that old story, “A Week of Sundays.”
As little sis says, if she (and that dumb notplumber guy) would just slither back home permanently, then we could all happily go back to our regularly scheduled lives.
Oxy-morons:
Joe – the plumber
Republican – party
Senator – Coleman
Govenor – Palin
There’s a whole sidebar just waiting to be explored! JTP’s flame was extinguished once it was revealed that he was a fraud in every aspect of his life. Had the MSM just ignored him, he may have faded away long ago. It was because of that initial fifteen minutes of fame given him by the MSM that the McCain camp picked him up and ran with him, propagating the myth and the illusion of his own importance. Much like a Broadway show, however, his one act play has come to its inevitable demise.
Inasmuch as the correct spelling and use of words and terms are concerned, I keep MSN’s ‘The Free Dictionary’ open for reference. Kind of a Readers Digest ‘Improve Your Vocabulary’ tool. Makes me fell better about myself! Even If I still stumble on okayshun!
Having lived in the deep south a number of years, I feel I MUST quickly correct ‘Lyn’ on the proper use of that uniquely southern expression… y’all. Singular… y’all. Plural… all y’all. Plural possive… all y’alls.
Wildlife Avenger Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 6:09 AM
54 Largo Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 5:37 AM
Michael Steele can’t sign this bottom feeder’s RNC checks anymore. I’m thinking next for him might be a sex tape, starring Joe and a Michelle Bachmann blow up doll.
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To go with this blow up doll……….
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BaWeTAWt3VI/SPICE7SvdaI/AAAAAAAAJSA/iHIFoi62mrM/s400/sarah-palin-blow-up-doll.jpg
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LMAO ❗
Bonnie Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 6:04 AM
It just plain amazes me that folks like EyeOnYou think everything under the shrub was glorious and right.
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Uh I think you are a bit confused. Here is what I had to say on the matter:
Aw shucks you going and given Obama all the credit for flushing this country down the toilet and not putting any responsibility on the Republican BUSH who dragged us not only into the toilet but deep down into the sewer system is just plain foolish, but hardly unexpected. Showing your true colors now ……
I have no problem whatsoever stating that Bush not only dumped this country into the toilet and deep down into the sewer, but he stuffed so much crap on top of us that it will take YEARS to bring us back to where we should be.
Sorry you misunderstood what I was trying to say.
54 Largo Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 5:37 AM
Michael Steele can’t sign this bottom feeder’s RNC checks anymore. I’m thinking next for him might be a sex tape, starring Joe and a Michelle Bachmann blow up doll.
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To go with this blow up doll……….
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BaWeTAWt3VI/SPICE7SvdaI/AAAAAAAAJSA/iHIFoi62mrM/s400/sarah-palin-blow-up-doll.jpg
Lyn Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 4:54 AM
Stopping by this web site and reading the comments leaves me with the feeling that I stepped in something…bad. Anyway Joe the Plumber should not worry you people so much. He’s just a private citizen. You can stop wetting your beds now.
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Well lynn maybe you stepped in your own moose pucky? Better get out fast!
Any believe me we don’t worry about JTP! And teacher???LMAO!
It just plain amazes me that folks like EyeOnYou think everything under the shrub was glorious and right.
I hear he joined the Brotherhood of the Unemplumbered.
Thanks, Paula. I don’t think anybody outside of the GOP freaky-fringe ever took JtP seriously, and I don’t think anyone does now.
Alaska Disasta, I appreciated your commentary on “bated”. One of my writing pet peeves is “towed” substituted for “toed” in “toed the line”. A “towed line” is what you use when trolling (a fishing technique where you drag a baited line behind your boat and hope something dumb latches on). When people are “toeing the line” they are following the rules, however reluctantly, as in keeping their toes behind the line at the beginning of a foot race.
I guess JtP just couldn’t bear to toe the GOP line any more. Or maybe he did get trolled into the Constitution Party or the Aryan Nation or the Brotherhood of the Bald or where ever it is that the disaffected are going.
Paula Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 5:02 AM
It’s okay mudpuppies, I’ll turn the page so you don’t have to be subjected to the troll. Flip…
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Hahahaha if that was a troll they are going to have to do better than that! 😉
Lyn Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 4:54 AM
Stopping by this web site and reading the comments leaves me with the feeling that I stepped in something…bad. Anyway Joe the Plumber should not worry you people so much. He’s just a private citizen. You can stop wetting your beds now.
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Amazingly enough he is a private citizen that the Repubicans championed as their “HERO” so that tells me a lot. No bedwetting here, just laughter at who the “righties” chose to use as their “everyman”.
Lyn Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 4:54 AM
I’m still surprised the Obama regime did not somehow try to co-opt Joe the Plumber. As a plumber he would be helpful in the flushing of America’s economy and currency down the toilet.
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Aw shucks you going and given Obama all the credit for flushing this country down the toilet and not putting any responsibility on the Republican BUSH who dragged us not only into the toilet but deep down into the sewer system is just plain foolish, but hardly unexpected. Showing your true colors now ……
Lyn Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 4:54 AM
Meanwhile he’s got to find something to do to fill his time. I hope Joe the Plumber becomes a public school teacher – in y’all’s state not mine. I would very much like for Joe to teach all of your kids his morals.
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You think that Joe should be a teacher? Well I guess he did school all those republican fans who couldn’t get enough of him until they didn’t need him any longer and now he is throwin’ every one of you under the bus!
Sounds like you have the same kind of morals as Joe and for that I am truly sorry. Good luck 🙂
Michael Steele can’t sign this bottom feeder’s RNC checks anymore. I’m thinking next for him might be a sex tape, starring Joe and a Michelle Bachmann blow up doll.
The real question is: Who cares what Joe the Pretend Plumber does?
It’s joe the plumber? I thought it was pronounced joe the dumber.
It’s okay mudpuppies, I’ll turn the page so you don’t have to be subjected to the troll. Flip…
I have long thought that Palin/Bachmann was the dream team! Bwaaaahaaahaaahaaaa
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OMG, just imagine the campaign speeches. Every major city in the country (north of the Carolinas) would be in mass riot.
wwsc, and it certainly means no money for those pesky items like condoms and birth control pills. Joe prefers each young American girl over 12 a nickel to keep between her knees. It worked for Bristol. Oops, my bad.
I think most ‘spellin and gramma’ mistakes online are from fast typing and no spell check, no proofreading, etc.
When your party is too out of hand for wild man Joe, you’ve got trouble, that’s trouble, trouble in rivier city. Maybe he’ll be like the Pied Piper of Hamilon and lead the reast of the GOP away… to a dark cold isolated cave somewhere?
please please please have this mean that we won’t be seeing much of him anymore. No more joenotplumbernot.
I did crack up when Keith mentioned that he’s disillusioned that the Repubs are spending too much but that he doesn’t want defense, social security, or medicare cut. So I guess that just leaves education, infrastructure, and safety nets for kids on the chopping block. lol.
I LMAO when I heard about JTP! He’s a grifter too! The GOP used him to try to set up PO and it backfired big on him, exposing that he wasn’t even a plumber and made no wear near enough to buy a business like he claimed.
Afterward, GOP idiots were actually setting up paypal accounts for this clown b/c he lost his job b/c of “the media”! How socialist of them all! Then he grifted around, squeezing whatever he could of his 15 mins of fame, bashing, mccain, bashing being a Journalist, writing a book, blah,blah, blah, yet these idiots kept saying “JTP” the face of GOP!(insert angel choir here,ahahhhhhhhhh!) What idiots! No wonder GOP in in the toilet. With GINO, Rush, JTP as their idols???
Does this mean (gasp!) that he may now have to go out and find a REAL job??
Perhaps he will become Joe I.P.- Joe Independence Party
though I like the thought of calling him Joe I Pee. teehee
I have long thought that Palin/Bachmann was the dream team! Bwaaaahaaahaaahaaaa
Martha, I wasn’t sure if it is sickness’s, sicknesses or sickness’.
How about some edumacation on the ‘ please. I’m quite serious and would appreciate an online lesson…..:)
@Sue Says:
Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012!!!
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That sounds like the Symbiotic Psychosis Party. i.e. Two, or more, nuts feeding off each others sickness’.
27 Sue Says:
May 7th, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012!!!
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Um-m-m…..I dunno know Sue…….these people have other plans.
http://twitter.com/PalinBachmann
AlaskaDisasta,
Thanks for that lesson. I had wanted to use the phrase “with bated breath” on several occasions, but was unsure of the spelling. Now I won’t forget. 🙂
The good news is that the departure of Joe the Plumber is yet another solid indication that the Christian White Party…oh, sorry, I mean the GOP, is breaking up.
The bad news is that this loser will probably be spending more time back in his hometown, which I must say is also my hometown; Toledo, Ohio.
I just want everyone to know that in general the people in the Toledo area are nothing like this moron. In fact, everyone I know is embarrassed by the antics of this charlatan.
I will go now.
Embarrassed in Toledo,
(Hangs head)
ps. If anyone is interested in seeing a real Democratic Party Woman in action, check out our congressional representative, Marcy Kaptur. She is the real face of Toledo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds
Ouch !! Those kids at wonkette are brutal !! Comments even more so.also.too. Not for the faint of heart.
http://wonkette.com/408387/now-even-joe-the-plumber-hates-republicans
Well – hopefully the dipstick will spend time with his son now. Remember when he first popped up , he bragged that he was the primary caregiver for his 11yr. old son. The ones that brag the most , do the least. Just like sarah………and the kids suffer the most.
UK Lady … I follow British politics fairly closely. Wouldn’t you say that Labour’s decision to climb in bed with the Republicans and follow their fat-cat and fascist ways is going to kill them? I have to say I’ve been shocked by the antics. Loved this cartoon http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/cartoon/2009/may/08/steve-bell-cartoon-executive-pay-bonuses
these guys don’t just fade away gracefully.
the whole world is swirling around the drain now, thanks to nearly three decades of their governance.
it’s fun to watch — and couldn’t happen to nicer people — just a lot of collateral damage.
Keep it classy GOP!, Ha Ha1
Actually, I was thinking Joe (not) the plumber (not) may have had a metaphorical horses head put in his bed by someone in the GOP who just couldn’t stand the embarrassment any more.
I think Joe was cut lose from the GOP and now feels free to say it like it is for him. Shrug.
The melt down dates back to the fraud of 2000. Or maybe it dates back to Newt leading the impeachment of stupid Bill while he was actually poking his intern.
I remember predicting the meltdown of the Republic party within 12 months of losing the election, but I had no idea they would do it so shamelessly and in full public view.
And so damn quickly.
I guess that’s why their oracle’s name is “Rush”……rhyme’s with “flush”……
The title of this post reminds me of this quote from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey –
You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.
I really never have seen the attraction of Joe The Plumber. Sure, he is bald, and bald men can be pretty cute, but Joe got played bigtime by the GOP. They were using him as an election prop. And I think he knows this now – and he knows his 15 minutes is nearly up..
AlaskaDisasta, I hope you were/are a teacher. With your ability in presentation, any students of yours would be not only educated, but totally entranced in the process. Most delightful and edifying piece of writing.
Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012!!!
Here’s a little story ’bout a boy named Joey
King of the world, got a very long story
Made a lot of money, lived a life of glory
Did what he done but he ended up sorry.
– Rev Run
Good grief! Joe the “not plumber” might start his own party called the Good Ole Potty “Not” (GOP N). That would be fitting for a guy who really does not work on toilets or any other plumbing, for that matter. tee hee!
Sorry… coudn’t resist
Looking back at McCain’s presidential campaign actions (selecting Palin as VP nominee; palling around with Joe the Plumber), he couldn’t have more effectively implanted the GOP with destructive self-absorbed parasitic contagions. You’d almost think McCain intended to destroy the Republican Party in the same way Bush, with his actions, apparently intended to destroy the United States of America.
I hope McCain succeeded, and I hope Bush didn’t.
@Alaska Disasta – loved the grammar lesson. I didn’t know the origin of the phrase, but I did know that AKM had spelled it incorrectly (sorry AKM). Now if we can just teach all those bloggers to use “than” instead of “then” when making a comparison, I will be a happy English major.
Even though he took shameless advantage of his public elevation by the McCain campaign to a level just short of the Saint of Guadalupe, he always seemed somewhat uncomfortable in the role. He even said at one point that he became disillusioned with McCain when he was on a campaign airplane with him. Another time, he just didn’t show up at a rally to do his puppet “mascot” gig.
The guy seemed like “roguishness” was lurking under that bald pate. So, I’m not surprised that he jettisoned himself from the GOP. My impression of his unspoken language: “I’m my own man first and foremost, not just anybody’s property (translation “Ho”) to use.”
I don’t admire the guy but I think he is more of a true “maverick” than McCain and Palin combined….
The problem with Joe is that his dislike and mistrust of Obama outweighed all the pimping McCain and Palin were doing to him…..so he let them use him. His fault.
From what we know about Joe’s past, Joe could be planning to return to Alaska!
He might be dropping the “GO” but keeping the “P”, and adding an “AI” in front of it.
Now – its time for Boss Limbaugh to take a hike —
can’t the GOP arrange an on-site Alaska Palin interview
near the ice jam??
He could just get hit with a berg – the size of a house.
Knock the wind out of the windbag.
I hope ‘Faux Joe’ realizes that now that he is no longer a member of the GOP…. who is going to pay for all those ‘traveling bills’ and speaking engagements..?
Looks like he didn’t think this one all the way through.
Or will he pay his own way NOW… since he is not living as a ‘Socialist’…. spreading the Wealth.
I suppose he might be living off the profits of all those Book sales he has.
Should we all take a Poll to see what his new Job will be now….?
(maybe He will leave the Country now)
He may have been horny, but now he’s just f-
Well, you know.
Actually I think the GOP downfall started long before the last months of election.
Where’s Joe, Joe the plumber, he,s suppose to be here. Hey Joe, Joe, well I guess he’s not here. Wing it john.
Palin is snubbing them again too. Apparently she’s bowed out of the Correspondent’s Dinner.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/07/palin-pulls-out-of-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
Does she really think this is going to get her the nomination in 2012? Or maybe she’s planning to create her own third party and win that way?
Lol Master of Bait.
I think the GOP deathwatch started the moment they picked Sarah, followed by Joe, (and don’t forget Tito the Builder (who??), as spokespeople for them. Joe milked his 15 minutes for all he could get out of it. Would love to see what he listed as employment on his 2008 tax forms…singer,reporter,spokesperson,political pundit,and ????
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
As far as bate or bait…….. Mr. GOP Horny Joe is clearly the Master of Bait….
Ahem…as in “Can’t fish. Cut bait, Master Joe.”
The first most embarrassing person John McCain ever associated with twittered this message two hours ago:
Outraged Obama’s budget includes major cuts to missile defense programs, when N. Korea refuses to abide by UN regs.http://tinyurl.com/c56xyh
The link is to an article written April 7th.
To phrase “The Rubber Room Hotel”,,,I just hope he is goodby joe…..,,Me gotta go,Me oh my oh,Me gotta go. Pole the pirogue,Down the bayou….. Sorry, couldn’t help myself with that one. They’re sinking faster than the Titanic.
it’s funny (appropriate) that we both mentioned vermin
this is starting to get good (finally)…like rats jumping off a sinking ship
where’s that damn popcorn?
Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it means “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”. So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing as a result of some strong emotion, such as terror or awe.
Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice, in which Shylock says to Antonio: “Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this …”. Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.
For those who know the older spelling or who stop to consider the matter, baited breath evokes an incongruous image; Geoffrey Taylor humorously (and consciously) captured it in verse in his poem Cruel Clever Cat:
Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.
Isn’t that funny. I read this and wondered why you mentioned it, since I used ‘bated’ correctly. Puzzling, I went back and looked and lo and behold! LOL! ‘Tis fixed. AKM
I heard this on Countdown and could hardly stop giggling.
When you suck so bad that you lose your mascot, you know you have hit rock bottom.
Which brings me back to the question I asked AKM earlier, are all of the remaining Republicans living in Alaska? With the GOP in free fall how did we end up with a Dan Sullivan running our city?
I am with you Erin, I think the guy was a plant in the first place. Not Joe, not a plumber, not really buying a business. I never understand how people like him get a voice. What he said about gays really was crass and bigoted.
I just hope he is goodby joe…..
Also, too, I thought death watch was for my plants, but it’s also for careers, now that I think about it.
I’m still wondering why anyone cares what this guy thinks.
Ick! He said that horny thing? The gop could keep him.
“They are now without the second most embarrassing person John McCain ever associated with.”
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AKM, what I would give for one quarter of your wit. Thanks for another great post!