Over at PJTV, (or as Roger Simon calls it: "Daddy’s Lil Sugar Tit") JustJoe (formerly Joe the Plumber, Joe the Middle East Journalist, and Joe The Cockheaded Conservative Handpuppet) "reports" on the stimulus bill which, like many of the things that Joe reports upon, makes him "angry", "upset", "disturbed" and probably disgruntled but he hasn’t reached that word yet on his Word-O-Day desk calendar so we’re throwing it in gratis.
Today we learn that the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the Club for Growth are "bi-partisan or, if you will, neutral think-tanks" populated by "super-braniacs". Also JustJoe has read the Republican stimulus proposal and he assures us that it contains "no pork", just good old-fashioned tax cuts that will benefit job creators like himself whenever he gets around to starting up his multi-million dollar plumbing and clown college empire.
Be sure to stay tuned to watch as Joe listens to Daniel Mitchell of the Cato Institute explain the road to serfdom to him and Joe ponders whether he should point out that he is from Ohio and they don’t do a lot of surfing there and besides it makes his head all pruney.
It would be a shame if the seventy-five affiliate bloggers who were recently pink-slipped by Roger were unable to avail themselves of this hard-hitting citizen reporting so I hope that Roger will slip a little something extra in their last paycheck envelopes. Maybe a coupon good for 25% off on a PJTV annual subscription.
That would be a lovely gesture on his part.




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No doubt they(the fired) thought they were THE chimp that would type a Hemingway novel, but then to be replaced by a bullet-headed cretin…well talk about shattered egos.
Don’t you have to pay taxes in order to get a tax cut? As I recall, the whole failing to pay taxes thing is one hobby that Joe and wanker-of-the-week Daschle have in common.
And speaking of Daschle, why hasn’t anyone suggested Joe for HHS yes? I mean, Howard Dean has his own friggin’ Facebook fan club pushing for his nomination, and he’s just a doctor who was the big kahuna of a small state or something once, so what does he know? Joe is a god damn plumber (well, or he plays one on TV. YMMV), he’s had a cold once, and he’s friends with all sorts of smart people. Oh, and he’s a Republican, like Gregg, so he should be a shoe-in.
Boy, JimmyJeff GannonGuckert is gonna be pissed when he realizes he’s no longer the Cockheaded Conservative Handpuppet of choice.
Actually, as conservatives, these guys aren’t the “choice” anything.
Hmmm… Just Joe seems so, well, tolerant somehow. I lack the tolerance gene. I call him NotJoe the NotPlumber when I’m being kind. What I call him when I’m not being kind has peeled the wallpaper off the wall.
Joe the notplumber’s rise to fortune must disgruntle some of the PJM dumpees, like Godlstein who would surely punch Joe’s notcock if he could.
P.S. If that’s Joe’s living room it’s about as boring as he is. No surprise that it lacks a bookcase.
I too am a braniac. Pardon me …. my bowels are rumbling …
He’s prolly watching Saturday morning cartoons.
first of all ..ALL people pay taxes, unless they happen to either steal everything they get, or are very wealthy,..no news there, and I also suggested on the ‘.gov’ site that they give Dr. Dean enough time to change his political registration to Republican in order to get more of this ‘damn the goals -lets go for BIPARTISAN instead-’approach. Also I thought it was illegal to gain ‘office’ in exchange for any agreement, or exchange of favor..no? what of Judd Gregg’s arrangement? (no Repub. replacement no agreement?)
I’m sorry, but anyone who willingly allows themselves to be photographed while perched upon such a hideous couch, in an equally horrible room, is deserving of nothing but scorn and ridicule. I mean, wow. It reeks of stale tobacco and urine.
Hmmm, is that a pack of smokes on the table?
ronnie,
i appreciate the whole “everyone pays taxes” schtick. but as i recall, notjoe made his defiant stance for freedom and liberty for all by specifically *not* paying his taxes — and it would seem unusually bipartisan and generous to give him a tax cut on top of that, no?
As for Gregg stretching the concept of democracy like an old condom to accommodate the needs of his party ahead of those of his country? Well, IOKIYAR.
Might be a pack of smokes – that’s an air freshener on the end table.
Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius
I – I like the sound of that.
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…”reports” on the stimulus bill which, like many of the things that Joe reports upon, makes him “angry”, “upset”, “disturbed” and probably disgruntled…
I think we’ve just figured out what not-Joe was doing before he became a not-plumber.
He was Ed Anger!
Yeah, I can’t wait for the anvil to come down.
On a related note, is Pajamas going to keep jumping the shark until they get eaten?
Charlie don’t surf!
Wasn’t the soundbite of the GOP sometime in October: “I’m Joe the Plumber!” Of course it was in a sort of Spartacus without the Laurence Olivier/Tony Curtis homoeroticism way, but still, they proudly stood forth and said it. And it has come to pass.
Heh.
Indeed.
They’re paying him in Smartie Coins, aren’t they?
Hey! I used to have a black halogen floor lamp like he has – IIRC got it on clearance at Home Depot for like 15 bucks or something. Worked okay, I guess, but one spring evening a big fat junebug flew into it and caught fire, sending a tongue of flame 18″ high into the air and setting off the fire alarm. In our rush to turn it off we knocked it over and it bent in half, spreading carbonized bug parts across the floor.
Don’t know if this is an allegory for the future of not-Joe and PJTV, but it will sure be fun to watch if it is.
That’s the same couch I have, from Sears. Not only does it look ratty after a while, it’s not too comfortable, either. Lessons learned, I guess.
This morning, I had the misfortune of hearing Not-Joe the Not-Plumber talking about his time on Capital Hill with the local wingnutRadio guy (Kirby Wilbur, who sometimes fills in for Hannity). He trotted out all the predictable talking points (socialism, special interests, the little guy, etc) but then he started talking about the gov’t taking away freedoms and he dropped this nugget: “You can’t even discipline your kids the way you want anymore without the government calling it child abuse!”.
So will he now be called Joe the Child Abuser?
I had a few minutes of chortling this past weekend, when I was doing my taxes online.
Per the regulations of the MA Dept of Revenue, I am supposed to claim as income any money I made through embezzlement or other illegal activity.
It says so right there on the web page!
Imagine my chagrin when I realized I hadn’t made any – I felt as if I haven’t been achieving to my full potential.
Yeah the problem with these cartoon characters is that after you hit them on the head with an anvil (or blow them up in the dynamite shack) they walk around all accordioned for a while and next scene they’re back to their same old tricks.
When I lived in Klumbus, Ahia 20 years ago “Surf Ohio” t-shirts were everywhere. I guess you can order them online now:
http://www.homageclothing.com/…..io-21.html