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RUSH: Joe the plumber. Joe the plumber has become the star of this election right now. Joe the plumber was on Katie Couric, he was on Good Morning America today. He had a press conference outside his home in Ohio today and the Drive-Bys are dumping all over Joe the plumber. They\u2019re calling him a racist. You know why they\u2019re calling him a racist? Because he said Obama talks as smoothly as Sammy Davis, Jr., could tap dance or something like that. Oh, racist comment from Joe the plumber! Biden is out there saying, ‘I don\u2019t know any plumbers that earn $250,000 in my neighborhood.\u2019 Well, that\u2019s because Biden lives in a neighborhood where no plumbers live, details on that coming up in just a second. By the way, Joe the plumber, you better get ready because the Obama thugs are coming after you, pal, and they\u2019re going to try to destroy you. They\u2019re out there saying Joe the plumber doesn\u2019t even make $250,000 a year. There\u2019s that magic number again, by the way. Joe the plumber doesn\u2019t even make $250,000 a year, he\u2019s not going to get a tax. That\u2019s not what Joe the plumber said. Joe the plumber said he wants to buy a plumbing business that will put him in that tax bracket. We\u2019ve got all kinds of Joe the plumber sound bites to share with you. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s nothing to spread around here. Obama wants to spread the wealth. There\u2019s nothing to spread. If he starts taxing wealth, what\u2019s left of wealth right now, as he\u2019s promising to do, there will be literally nothing to spread around. The Democrats have destroyed the markets. The economy needs to be rebuilt, not reorganized for socialism. The economy, quite simply, needs to be rebuilt. McCain has one challenge from now until the election, because, folks, this is about the economy. I\u2019ve got a piece here. It\u2019s a very scholarly piece, it\u2019s one of these pieces filled with gobbledygook, but I, El Rushbo, am able to make the complex understandable and I\u2019m able to synthesize six pages here into three sentences and I\u2019m not going to bother reading you the three sentences. I went nuts reading it, I went nuts reading these pages but I stuck to it because I figured the last three sentences will tell me what I need to know with this whole thing anyway, it\u2019s usually the case. Basically it was a study of electorates in this country and other democracies, going back to the Great Depression, studying voting habits by the entire electorate and the economy. Whenever the economy was heading down, either into recession or when it was in depression at one time, and anywhere around the world when the economy was heading down, it didn\u2019t matter, nothing else mattered. <\/p>\n

Whoever was in power got blamed for it and tossed out, pure and simple. As long as the economy stayed good under the new group, the new group was voted in, over and over again. When the economy goes south, bam, people get rid — that\u2019s it. Especially when it happens prior to an election as this one mysteriously has, as this one just so coincidentally has. So McCain has one challenge, and that challenge is to tie this economy to the Democrat Party and Barack Obama, because you can do it, it can be done because that\u2019s the truth. This economy is faltering right now because of the subprime mortgage mess. It is faltering because all of the fallout that happened after giving people mortgages that had no business being given mortgages, never were able to pay \u2019em back, and the pressure brought to bear by the Democrats on making those loans, forcing banks to make them and when the banks had worthless paper, they forced the banks, the bank said we\u2019re going to have to package these and sell them as derivatives, securities, and this kind of thing. The depth that kept mounting up on no value, kept mounting up and mounting up, finally it just imploded and you can tag names, you can tag Pelosi to this, you can tag Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Jamie Gorelick, Franklin Raines, Barack Obama, ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers. <\/p>\n

All of this that has happened in the housing market is exactly the result of plans put into place by liberal Democrats starting back with Jimmy Carter but really intensified in the Clinton years. This is a Democrat economic failure, and I keep saying this, but the evidence is clear in one way if not many. If there were a Republican to blame this on, he would be sitting before congressional committees six weeks ago. But the way it\u2019s working out, the Republicans are deemed to be responsible because the Republicans have the White House, George W. Bush. The task is going to be to convince the American people that their economy is gone south because the Democrat Party was able to run things unchecked and they were able to stonewall reform efforts, and the very people that brought us the disaster have designed the fix, which is gonna make it even worse, and they are still in power with the ability to do even more, and now they have nominated somebody who is of their way of thinking who\u2019s going to get into the White House if he\u2019s elected. He\u2019s already planning his big election night party in some big, big park in Chicago. <\/p>\n

In Ireland, you know these online betting sites where you can wager who\u2019s going to win? We have online stock market for presidential candidates. In Ireland, one of these websites has already started paying off on Obama\u2019s victory with 20 days to go. Now, Joe the plumber is out there, and it\u2019s fascinating because Joe the plumber hasn\u2019t said who he\u2019s going to vote for but it seems pretty obvious to me, but the Democrat Party and the Obama thugs are setting out to destroy a middle American Ohio resident who simply wants to keep what he earns. He wants to grow his business and he wants to hire more people. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Biden on the Today Show today discussing Joe the plumber. David Gregory: ‘We\u2019ve moved through the debates, we\u2019re moving into the final stretch. What happened on this debate that will be the basis of a final pitch from Obama-Biden to undecided voters?\u2019<\/p>\n

BIDEN: You know, as John continues to cling to the notion, evidence the fact this guy Joe the plumber, I don\u2019t have any Joe the plumbers in my neighborhood that make $250,000 a year and are worried, the Joe the plumbers in my neighborhood, the Joe the cops in my neighborhood, the Joe the grocery store owners in my neighborhood, they make like 98% of the small businesses, less than $250,000 a year, and they\u2019re going to do very well under us and they\u2019re going to be in real tough shape under John McCain.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the first place, 98% of small businesses do not earn less than $250,000 a year, but more than that, Joe the plumber doesn\u2019t either, Joe the plumber doesn\u2019t earn $250,000, he wants to. He wants to buy a plumbing company. They\u2019re perfectly distorting it. But I don\u2019t think any plumbers live in Biden\u2019s neighborhood. I don\u2019t think any cops live in his neighborhood, and I don\u2019t think any grocery store owners live in his neighbor because Mr. Biden\u2019s neighborhood is very ritzy. From the October 1st, 2000, edition of the New York Times: ‘Mr. Biden\u2019s 6,800-square-foot colonial-style house sits on four lakefront acres that he bought in March 1996 for $350,000. But these days, his kitchen table can be found in a 6,800-square-foot custom-built colonial-style house on four lakefront acres, a property worth close to $3 million.\u2019 There is no way any plumber lives in Biden\u2019s neighborhood. There is no way any cop lives there or any grocery store owner. And, by the way, I doubt that Biden has ever even seen Joe the plumber in a Home Depot because Biden\u2019s never been seen in a Home Depot.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites with Joe the plumber. On Good Morning America today, the plumber Joe Wurzelbacher. Diane Sawyer says, ‘If people making $250,000 should not be taxed additionally — by the way, it\u2019s 3%, just 36% to 39% over Obama\u2019s plan — if those people should not be taxed additionally even though they\u2019re in the top 5%, what about people who make a million dollars or $5 million?\u2019<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: Why should they be penalized for being successful? I mean, that\u2019s what you\u2019re telling me, or that\u2019s what it sounds like you\u2019re saying. That\u2019s wrong. Because you\u2019re successful you have to pay more than everybody else? I mean, we all live in this country, I mean that was — you know, it\u2019s basic rights, and Obama wants to take that basic right and penalize me for it is what it comes down to. I mean. that\u2019s a very socialist view, and it\u2019s just incredibly wrong. I mean if it\u2019s $250,000 now, what if he decides, ‘Well, you know, $150,000 you\u2019re pretty rich, too. Let\u2019s go ahead and lower it again.\u2019 It\u2019s a slippery slope. When\u2019s it going to stop?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This morning on Joe Scarborough on MSNBC he and Buchanan were talking to Robert Gibbs, Obama campaign aide. Scarborough says, ‘Why do you want to tax Joe the plumber? Why do you want to destroy his dreams of starting his own business and hiring four or five people?\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: If you\u2019ve seen interviews with Joe the plumber; Joe the plumber m-makes, uh, from best we can tell, an income level where he\u2019d probably receive a tax cut from Barack Obama. And Joe the plumber if he was — <\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: No, no, no. That\u2019s not what he said. He said (garbled) tax me?<\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: We saw Joe the plumber this morning. He\u2019s not happy with you guys.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Joe Biden afterwards said, ‘Hey, we\u2019re going to tax Joe the plumber because he makes $250,000.\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: But, Joe — Joe the plumber doesn\u2019t make $250,000. <\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: He thinks he does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not that he makes 250. It\u2019s that he wants to! He has a dream; he wants to buy the plumbing business. He wants to hire four or five more people. That will move him into Obama\u2019s tax bracket. And, by the way, Obama lied through his teeth twice last night when McCain nailed him on twice voting for a budget authorization bill that would increase taxes on anybody earning $42,000 or more. Obama shook his head, ‘No, no, that\u2019s not true, and even Fox News backed me up on it,\u2019 even Fox News. I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. It might have been one of these stupid commentators thinks Obama\u2019s a rock or thinks Obama is a mountain, or is cool, calm, collected, or what have you. But he voted for it twice. But anyway, this guy Gibbs, they\u2019re now attacking him. Folks, they\u2019re attacking you. The Obama campaign, in attacking Joe the plumber, is attacking every one of you. They\u2019re calling this guy a liar. They are suggesting that he is selfish. They are suggesting he earns more than he at present does. Last night on Nightline the cohost Terry Moran talked to Joe the plumber, and Moran said, ‘What do you make of what you heard about your exchange with Senator Obama? Senator McCain said it essentially demonstrated Senator Obama wants to tax you and people like you too heavily and redistribute the wealth. What do you make of that?\u2019<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: Well, to be honest with you, I mean that infuriates me. I like, you know, Bill Gates, I don\u2019t care who you are. If you worked for it, if it was your idea and you implemented it, it\u2019s not right for someone to decide you made too much, you\u2019ve done too good and now we\u2019re going to tie some of it back. That\u2019s just completely wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The thing that everybody has to realize here is that there is very little wealth. Wealth is in the process of being destroyed right now in the stock market, people\u2019s 401(k)s. You\u2019ve seen them. I know you\u2019ve been scared to open the envelopes, but you\u2019ve seen what\u2019s happened to your 401(k)s, your retirement accounts. We got unemployment rising. There is no wealth to speak of here. We need to start creating wealth! We need Reaganomics. We need tax cuts. We need more disposable income. Look at Pelosi talking now about a $300 billion stimulus package. What is that? A $300 billion stimulus package is to put more money in your pocket. By doing what? By spending more! By borrowing more! Where are they going to get it? Where\u2019s the government getting all its money? Have you seen the national debt? Have you seen the annual deficit? Where are they getting it? They\u2019re printing it. Can you say ‘inflation\u2019? <\/p>\n

And they\u2019re going to give you a little bit of it and they\u2019re going to say, ‘Go spend,\u2019 and that\u2019s going to revive the economy. The simple way is to cut taxes. But see, government cannot do with less. The dirty little secret is it\u2019s not even about that because tax cuts create more revenue to the Treasury. It\u2019s the Democrats want more Democrats and control over you, and this is what Joe the plumber instinctively understands. But the Democrats have destroyed the economy. The Democrats have taken a big chunk out of people\u2019s wealth here. There\u2019s no wealth to redistribute right now, yet it will not stop Obama. Joe the plumber was cut off by Katie Couric last night right after he says he likes McCain\u2019s answer on something. This is last night, post-debate analysis, Katie Couric, ‘Joe the plumber, the infamous Joe the plumber — actually not infamous — what do you think about the debate? Were you swayed either way?\u2019<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: I have an idea of who I\u2019m going to vote for, but that\u2019s, you know, that\u2019s my — you know, the nice thing about going into the booth, you know, only me and the lever knows, so… I think McCain did a fine job this evening. I think he brought up some good points. I do like his health care and I do like where he stands on taxes. Obama —<\/p>\n

COURIC: Joe?<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: — as usual… Yes?<\/p>\n

COURIC: We\u2019re going to… We\u2019re going to talk to you more on our webcast, because, unfortunately, we\u2019re out of time, but thanks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, well. ‘I like his health care. I like where he stands on taxes. Obama, as usual…\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Sorry, Joe, we\u2019re out of time. We\u2019ll put you on the Internet where nobody else can see you because nobody goes to our Internet website. So that\u2019s where we\u2019ll park you, Joe, you big buffoon. You didn\u2019t play it right,\u2019 Katie is thinking. ‘You\u2019re supposed to come here and attack McCain. You\u2019re supposed to come here and build up Obama! We\u2019re not going to let you get away with this, Joe.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Joe had a press conference outside his house today. Joe the plumber outside his home in Holland, Ohio. Unidentified reporter: ‘What is it about you, do you think, that\u2019s so attractive to the two presidential candidates that they would mention your name four times more than they would even mention Iraq?\u2019 Now, that question is as incompetent and absurd as any you would want. McCain brought up Joe the plumber. Obama had to bring up Joe the plumber in defense. He looked in the camera, ‘Joe, you\u2019re going to be fine with me.\u2019 He had just told Joe the plumber he\u2019s going to take some of his money. Last night he lied to Joe the plumber. So the report says, ‘How come this gets mentioned more than Iraq?\u2019<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: I don\u2019t know. That bothered me. To be honest with you, I\u2019m sure Obama didn\u2019t want my name mentioned so it wasn\u2019t so much as that. But I\u2019m sure he expected it. Like I said, it was just a focal point, and if it helps the debate then I\u2019m happy for that, but I wish, you know… I don\u2019t know, probably talked about more important issues. You know, November 4th is coming here, we\u2019re going to be voting shortly and there\u2019s a lot of real issues affecting us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The reporter said, ‘Well, that\u2019s the biggest issue for you. What do you hope for your son\u2019s future?\u2019<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: I want him to live in an America that he\u2019s proud of. I\u2019m tired of people downing America, saying that we\u2019re this bad country. I mean, that upsets me and my friends greatly. You know, we are the greatest country in the world. Stop apologizing for it! I mean, really. It just… (sigh) I get real mad about that. I\u2019m not sorry for being an American, I\u2019m not sorry for having the things I have. I\u2019m not sorry for any of those things. I\u2019m not sorry that we\u2019re in Iraq. Has it kept us safe? Absolutely! I believe in that 100%. WMDs or not, I don\u2019t care. You know, we took the fight to them. We\u2019ve done a pretty good job there. Could we have done better? Yeah, sure. But, you know, it\u2019s easy to be an armchair quarterback. You know, and hindsight they say is 20\/20. I call it X-ray vision.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The question is just how representative of Middle America is Joe the plumber. How many other Joe the plumbers are there out there? You know, ‘the silent majority\u2019 is the term that Nixon coined to describe them. How many others are out there that are just fed up with the idea that Obama\u2019s going to raise their taxes; fed up with hearing their country maligned by the likes of Obama and Biden and Clinton and John Edwards and the entire Democrat presidential roster? How many Americans are fed up with the Obama campaign apologizing for America while in Berlin? How many Americans are fed up with being called bitter clingers when Obama is hanging around these elite rich Democrats in San Francisco? We don\u2019t know. The polls are not telling us this. The polls… <\/p>\n

Karl Rove has a piece today in the Wall Street Journal says (paraphrased), ‘You know, look, he\u2019s outspending McCain three-to-one. He ought to have sewn this up by now. He ought to have this deal closed. This election ought to be over, and it isn\u2019t.\u2019 Rove\u2019s point is that McCain is still in striking distance. Now, I asked this question: how many Joe the plumbers are out there? Ben Smith at The Politico yesterday got an e-mail from a Republican consultant who conducted a focus group. The Republican consultant e-mailed Ben Smith about the group he had just finished conducting. What he did was show them a hard-hitting ad on Ayers, William Ayers, and this was the e-mail he sent to Ben Smith. <\/p>\n

‘Reagan Dem[ocrat]s and Independents. Call them blue-collar plus. Slightly more Target than Wal-Mart. Yes, the spot worked. Yes, they believed the charges against Obama. Yes, they actually think he\u2019s too liberal, consorts with bad people and WON\u2019T BE A GOOD PRESIDENT…but they STILL don\u2019t give a f***. They said right out, ‘He won\u2019t do anything better than McCain\u2019 but they\u2019re STILL voting for Obama. The two most unreal moments of my professional life of watching focus groups,\u2019 he said, are these two, \u201954 year-old white male, voted Kerry \u201904, Bush \u201900, Dole \u201996, hunter, NASCAR fan…hard for Obama said: ‘I\u2019m gonna hate him the minute I vote for him. He\u2019s gonna be a bad president. But I won\u2019t ever vote for another [G]-damn Republican. <\/p>\n

‘I want the government to take over all of Wall Street and bankers and the car companies and Wal-Mart run this county like we used to when Reagan was President.\u2019 The next was a woman, late 50s, Democrat but strongly pro-life. Loved B. and H. Clinton, loved Bush in 2000. ‘Well, I don\u2019t know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I\u2019m sick of paying for health insurance at work and that\u2019s why I\u2019m supporting Barack.” The consultant said, ‘I felt like I was taking crazy pills. I sat on the other side of the glass and realized…this really is the Apocalypse. The Seventh Seal is broken and it\u2019s time for eight years of pure, delicious crazy….\u2019 <\/line> <\/line>Now, this is ostensibly from a Republican consultant who had gone out and done focus groups and sends the results to Ben Smith at The Politico. Now, granted if you read it and you have no questions about it, you might agree with the Republican consultant. I don\u2019t mean to insult Ben Smith of The Politico, but what Republican consultant would do this? What Republican consultant would send this kind of information to…? I\u2019m not saying it didn\u2019t happen. If it did happen, it is indicative of something that we all know and we\u2019re hoping can be overcome, and that is it\u2019s the economy. It\u2019s the economy. And we also know that the Drive-By Media has for six years been trying to convince people they live in a rotten one, that they live in a recession. Joe the plumber (we don\u2019t apparently have this bite) this morning in his press conference said, ‘What is it about poverty? Everybody in poverty in this country\u2019s got a cell phone. They\u2019ve got a car. They\u2019ve got a TV. What is it about poverty?\u2019 This guy Joe the plumber is on the road and he\u2019s articulating McCain policies better than McCain does! <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: So the Obama campaign and the Democrats now start attacking Joe the plumber. It\u2019s amazing how Joe the plumber has them flummoxed. They\u2019re treating Joe the plumber almost liked the treated Sarah Palin when she first came out. As a curiosity, do you realize this is important, ladies and gentlemen. They looked at Palin, said, ‘Who is this woman? She shoots; she hunts; she takes care of her own kids.\u2019 And they\u2019re looking at Joe, ‘Who is this guy? Who\u2019s this Joe the plumber guy? What do you mean, some guy who is a blue-collar guy who is a plumber, and he\u2019s not going to vote for Obama? Who is this guy? Who are these people who live out here in Ohio? What do you mean he wants to start a business now, who is this guy? We can\u2019t understand this guy, this Joe the plumber.\u2019 What the press can\u2019t get through their heads is that America is Joe the plumber. Sarah Palin is America. Anne Kornblut, Katie Couric, sadly, Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol, the Fox All-Stars, they\u2019re not America. They have become elites. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know how hard this is for me to say, folks. Roger Ailes is one of my closest friends and he has been since 1990, and he is the chairman, chief executive officer of the Fox News Channel, I saw him this weekend, spent a lot of social time with him. It is really hard for me to tell you what I really think about what the Fox All-Stars reaction to this debate was last night. I know they\u2019re not under any obligation to carry an agenda. They\u2019re not under any obligation. They didn\u2019t see it. They didn\u2019t see what everybody else who watched this debate saw, even other people in the media, they didn\u2019t see it. And these are the people that put us down; these are the people making fun of us for not wanting McCain; these are the people we thought McCain was the only guy who can win, McCain can reach across the aisle, independents, Democrats, McCain is the guy that can do it with honor, great story, and now they\u2019re saying fire the campaign, McCain\u2019s horrible, can\u2019t do well in a debate. My gosh. Your head swims trying to keep up with them. <\/p>\n

The Kornbluts and the Katie Courics, they try to make it out like Sarah Palin and Joe the plumbers are interlopers. It\u2019s the press, it\u2019s the Drive-By Media, the elites that are the interlopers. They are the minority; they are the freak show class. There\u2019s nothing freak show about Sarah Palin. There\u2019s nothing freak show about Joe the plumber. The freak show is the elites in Washington and New York that are in the media and out of the media. The Fox All-Stars have become elites, too, and you\u2019ve got Jack Murtha. How in the world do the Democrats come close to winning this? Jack Murtha says that his part of Pennsylvania is definitely racist, a Democrat who impugned and maligned all of our great, brave Marines in Haditha and others of the US fighting force in Iraq. Oh, yeah, where I live, western Pennsylvania, yeah, very racist, gonna cost Obama four points at least, but he\u2019s still gonna win. His own state he\u2019s calling racist, western Pennsylvania. He\u2019s going to get reelected, probably. Who knows. Hope not. It\u2019s just amazing. I\u2019m telling you, folks, there have to be a lot more Joe the plumbers and Josephine the plumbers and Sarah Palin types all over this country than you know or that the Drive-By Media knows or that Washington-New York elites know. If they weren\u2019t out there doing what they\u2019re doing and being who they are, our economy would have tanked years ago. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: One more audio sound bite here from Joe the plumber from his press conference today. He actually had a press conference outside his house in Holland, Ohio. Now, keep in mind, the press looks at him the same way they look at Palin: Who is this freak? We don\u2019t have people like this in America. Who is this guy? Plumber? Wants to make $250,000 and vote McCain? A blue-collar guy? Who the hell is this? Remember, now, these reporters had to get visas to go into the foreign country of Ohio to interview Joe the plumber, and this is what he said about liberating Iraq and real poverty, compared to American poverty.<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: You know, my friends in the military that come back and tell me the thanks that they receive for us being there, it doesn\u2019t get enough play. I mean we\u2019ve liberated another country. I mean, you know, freedom, things that every one of you guys take for granted, everything that Americans take for granted, I mean these guys haven\u2019t had it; now they got it? I mean that\u2019s an incredible thing. You know, our guys here that are poverty stricken have cell phones. Those old people over there, you know, they have one pair of pants and a shirt. You know, so what we\u2019ve done over there is an incredible, incredible thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Joe the plumber making the case for the war in Iraq, putting it on the table in a proper context about poverty there versus poverty here, and the press looks at him like he is from Mars. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: In a further effort to discredit Joe the plumber, CBS\u2019 Maggie Rodriguez today said he\u2019s nothing but a Republican pawn. Republican pawn? He spoke to Obama when Obama was going door-to-door! As though Democrats don\u2019t have pawns. Joe the plumber also (they\u2019re going after him here on this, too) says he doesn\u2019t have a license, and says he doesn\u2019t need one because he works for somebody else. He wants to buy out the guy he works for down the road. He doesn\u2019t have a plan for it. Joe the plumber is 34, and he\u2019s working on it. He and his boss had talked about a plan eventually where he would take over, but he doesn\u2019t have a plan in place. He does not earn $250,000. He wants to buy the company, he wants to grow it, and then he will get his license. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, the plumbers union, the Democrat union thugs are now going after Joe the plumber. This is from the website Radar Online: ‘It remains to be seen whether John McCain\u2019s blue-collar hero, Ohio\u2019s Joe the plumber, is a Republican plant or not. (One thing he is definitely not: a licensed plumber.)\u2019 This is what they\u2019re focusing on. I mentioned this to you about 20 minutes ago. ‘Either way, though, he\u2019s succeeded in raising the ire of a lot of his plumbing brethren, particularly those in the United Association of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry!\u2019 This is not to be confused with the pig iron workers. <\/p>\n

‘The UA was the ‘first international Union to endorse Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States,\u2019 having thrown their support behind Illinoisan way back in January. Radar called them up to see how they felt about a man so inextricably linked to the world of pipes suddenly becoming a campaign talking point. ‘You know, hopefully Joe put in his time as an apprentice and a journeyman, so he can appreciate what it\u2019s like to be a working person,\u2019 a spokesperson told us. ‘Now that he has succeeded and has the chance to become a contractor and a business owner, he should really be supportive of Senator Obama\u2019s tax plan, which will benefit the working-class people who really need it.” I don\u2019t know who this spokesman is, but this spokesman is just dumb. I don\u2019t think people understand what Obama\u2019s tax plan is. Look, folks, there\u2019s just a certain degree of ignorance that we\u2019re going to have to deal with, and it\u2019s rampant out there, and I tell you it is the most expensive commodity we face in this country: pure ignorance. Not partisanship, and not ideologues, pure ignorance, 100% ignorance, the most expensive thing we have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Joe the plumber. Joe the plumber has become the star of this election right now. Joe the plumber was on Katie Couric, he was on Good Morning America today. He had a press conference outside his home in Ohio today and the Drive-Bys are dumping all over Joe the plumber. 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