The results from the rather tasteless British election affair are in, many hours before the Polles commence: Joseph the Plumber of Ohio shall become the new Queen. The Queen’s be-Queening ceremony went like so: “Samuel ‘Joe’ Wurzelbacher, who was hailed by Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008, won one of nearly 400 seats on the local Republican Party committee in Ohio’s Lucas County.” Enrobeth her, Ohio.
The new Queen shall battle with Parliament and its Power of the Purse.
The group he’ll serve on meets only a few times a year to elect the county chairman and sets the party agenda. Wurzelbacher won the seat by a 38-24 vote Tuesday in his suburban Toledo precinct. A message seeking comment was left with him Wednesday.
The Queen enjoys the gracious support of many local gin-beards.
Wurzelbacher remains an icon for many antiestablishment conservatives.
He drew cheers at a tea party rally last month in Cincinnati when he told the crowd not to let “a bunch of liberal pansies” take away their rights.
“Illegal immigration?” he said. “Put a fence up and start shooting.”
The Queen must consider her words.
[AP/Time]
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Oh, she’s a pretty.
Hep, hep, hoorah, &c., &c.
We are not amused!!!!!
Huh; I had no idea that not-Joe the not-plumber was still alive.
Well, he’s no longer unemployed; good job, moran!
Where the hell does he shop? LumberJack Ltd.? What a dolt.
He needs to return to whatever the job it is that he did before he used up his 15 minutes of fame. He wasn’t really a plumber now was he?
The fact of the matter is that he won’t last – these local committees are more interested in seeing who’s nominated to the East Dumpwater Planning Board than discussing national politics…
In related news, a canvassing of the Diebold Voting Machines ™ used in the election shows that once again, George W. Bush has been elected President of The United States.
So what ever happened to Joke the Plumber, anyway? He was all ready to do a CW album, host his own talk show, write a book, make the wingnut welfare lecture circuit and then 14 minutes later, nada.
Palin is the queen of the nobody’s and Joe’s the king of the never-were’s.
[re=571130]JMP[/re]: Me, either… Let him rest in peace.
Three Huzzahs for our new lovely new monarch!
“I’ve had some friends that voted for Mitch McConnell. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my plunger,” he said. “But at the same time, they’re dickwads, and they’re going to do their thing.”
Way to go, Ohio.
[re=571130]JMP[/re]: One imagines that the emoluments associated with being elected to “one of nearly 400 seats on the local Republican Party committee in Ohio’s Lucas County” are rather, uh….modest.
HAHA. Joe in a tiara. Thanks, Jim.
The Queen would kick his sorry ass, with her delicately raised pinky. She would then have a spot of tea.
[re=571132]jus_wonderin[/re]: This is good news for http://wonkette.com/415245/david-obey-retires-real-world-child-to-inherit-earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Duffy_%28Wisconsin%29#Early_life_and_Career.
Why can’t I get Wheel of Fortune any more? All I get is static. Joe, I want my money back!
Probably cheaper for the party to elect Samuel to office rather than call in a plumber every time someone in the GOP clogs up the loo with a gay-sex condom or newborn child they couldn’t get around to aborting.
What a looser, from loocas county. A royal flush.
He couldn’t plumb an outhouse.
This is precisely the sort of news up with which I will not put.
Joe has children? Isn’t there some law that prevents children from being exposed to excessive stupidity?
[re=571149]Extemporanus[/re]: This may be good news for Sean the Lumberjack, but it is obviously not good news for me.
I swear that I shall never teabag that hoary trope again.
he’s dipped in shit, it’s time to hang him out to dry. throw down, joe! get your ass down to the border and start shooting, let’s see what happens then.
[re=571158]Extemporanus[/re]: “Duffy is married to Rachel Campos-Duffy of The Real World: San Francisco and The Wedding Video. The two met while on the spinoff show Road Rules: All Stars. They have six children, Evita, Jack, Lucia-Belen, John-Paul, Paloma, and MariaVictoria.”
Six kids, three with compound names, two hyphenated, one not. Husband and wife are both former MTV Real World “stars”. Welcome to Sarah Palin’s Murrika. ‘Nuff said.
This quote confuses me (I assume it’s from the article ’cause it’s indented): “Wurzelbacher remains an icon for many antiestablishment conservatives.”
Why? What is he an icon of? All he did was talk to some loser presidential candidate they all now hate, 2 years ago. Do they just like him because he got some profile at the time in the mainstream media for a while? I thought they hated the mainstream media. It doesn’t make any sense at all…
Joe is starting to damage my perception of him as a strong, maverick, registered Independent.
[re=571162]President Beeblebrox[/re]: Their new reality show — <a href=”Sean y Rachel Más Huevos“>http://wonkette.com/415245/david-obey-retires-real-world-child-to-inherit-earth#comment-570950 — premiers on Telemundo this November.
I can’t wait for for his sex tape to hit the interwebs and he gets dethroned. Again.
Tin Foil and Palin coming,
brain dead in O-hi-o
Politics is the art of compromise and dealmaking. Joe is only good for sound bites. If he was a county commissioner he would soon dissolve into hysterics over having to negotiate a contract or even conduct a public meeting. Just yelling a phrase is what loons on street corners do.
[re=571137]Ye Olde Fap-Smith[/re]: As far as the intellectual capacity of monarchs, I’d rank butterflies well ahead of Samuel.
38-24! Let’s hope he can turn out big numbers like that in 2012.
And yet he makes more sense than Jonah Goldberg.
Meh. Let me know when he becomes the duly elected Queen of Naboo. I hear he and Jar-Jar are on the ticket for 2012.
I didn’t know England had a queen. I thought they were an autonomous collective.
[re=571217]Min2.0[/re]: You’re fooling yourself. They’re living in a dictatorship!
[re=571181]Extemporanus[/re]: Fuck you Joe for always fucking up my funny fucking shit!
Of course, being a Republican darling and all, he plans on quitting this position halfway through his term.
[re=571217]Min2.0[/re]: Come see the violence inherent in the system!!
Moby in grunge?
One of 400 members of the local Republican Committee? That is one select group.
[re=571259]Mr Blifil[/re]: 400. Legend has it that that’s the number of people who could comfortably fit in Mrs. Astor’s ballroom. Although I’m pretty certain it wasn’t that particular 400 that they had in mind.
Good Ole Joe. From “Who’s Who” to “Who’s that?”
What does Joe do with the plums?
[re=571259]Mr Blifil[/re]:
Sewers to right of them,
Sinks blocked to left of them,
Toilets behind them.
When can their glory fade?
Somewhere in Ohio, a village just elected its idiot.
Faggerts? Put a fence up and put your butt aginst it!
Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl, but she doesn’t have a lot to say.
Joe’s still around? How did he get out of the Israeli army?
And to just think two years ago this bitter skinhead was just another Ohio lardass with a lot of anger and a dream: to embarass an uppity blackman on television. So he takes a phony question which was probably delivered to him from Rick Davis’ asshole, takes his black suspenders and “nazi approved” stompy boots off and storms out to “get the darky”. Two years later, this bald, enraged ignoramus of regressive humanity is now a wingnut state representative. Oh, and he’s so cute…take out a gun and start shooting. I hated this moron the moment I layed eyes on him and his fake fucking plumbing business. Of course wingnuts love him, he’s a jackboot wearing, Palin tit sucking asshole without an ounce of education. What’s funnier is when he was wingnut kitsch they treated him like an angry child which is how the rest of us should.
[re=571133]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: Ohio politics are deeply corrupt, rivaling Illinois and Louisiana, just more boring. There’s potentially a lot of money in controlling the East Dumpwater planning board.
“He drew cheers at a tea party rally last month in Cincinnati when he told the crowd not to let “a bunch of liberal pansies” take away their rights. ‘Illegal immigration?” he said. “Put a fence up and start shooting.’ ”
That’s the Cincinnati spirit I knew! Boy, am I glad to be far, far, away!
Zhu Bajie
Changchun
China
If he won by a vote of 38-24, for one of 400 seats, it seems that some of the folks, even the fine upstanding Republican party committee members of East Dumpwater, did not bother to vote.
O-H!
We’d like to put up a fence surrounding Toledo but the funds…where do the funds come from? Tax-payer subsidized enclosure of one of many of Ohio’s wretched cities.
[re=571385]karen[/re]: Joe the unemployed and unlicensed handyman lives in Springfield Township, where many of the white working class moved in 1960s and 70s to get away from the darker Americans who live in Toledo.
LEAVE TOLEDO ALONE!!
15 minutes lasts a lot longer these days.
I didn’t think there were 400 people still living in Lucas County.
[re=571391]McDuff[/re]: Ah, sorry. I’m not completely familiar with anything west of Cleveland.
Here in the 17th district we actually have people pushing Traficant to get involved in politics again…
I grew up about 5 minutes from this douchebag’s house. I can tell you the Republican party in Lucas County is particularly brokedick – an impotent red dot in a sea of blue. So congratulations, “plumber,” you’re now on the committee to decide the agenda for a group of perennial losers.
[re=571503]friendlynerd[/re]: In my sordid past, I was active in Republican politics at the county level. The post that our friend Joe/Sam the Plumber/Unemployed has attained is one within the Republican Lucas county organization, not a public office, and therefore has no actual governing power.
These are the guys who meet at one of the committee members’ houses (usually the one whose wife makes the best pie) and decide that Lucas County is going to 1) Banish the IRS 2) Repeal all county taxes, too, and zoning laws also 3) Declare war on Iran/North Korea/Both 4) End all abortions forever.
Then the meeting’s minutes gets published in the local paper and everybody laughs at them.
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