Abromowitz -The Plumber Can't Fix the Leaks: Joe the slacker

[malaise]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-m-abromowitz/the-plumber-cant-fix-the_b_137818.html
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America provides Joe every platform for success --- a great educational system, a stable economic environment, good roads, robust markets, a respected legal system for collecting debts, and a thousand other benefits that Joe would not trade in a heartbeat for a plumbing business anywhere else in the world. Bless our country, a guy like Joe can aspire to buy a business and get rich.

McCain-Palin are clinging to one last appeal to trickle down messages that have worked in the past: Cut taxes for the top, or you won't have a job. Every time they praise Joe, they tell Americans: When you achieve success, your attitude should be - I don't give a hoot about the rest of you, I've got mine. Is that honor? Is that country first? Is that thanking God for the blessings of being born in the USA?

It is looking like not even Joe can save John and Sarah. If that happens, maybe we will stop hearing the trickle down mantra intoned so loudly by conservative candidates. And at least we will stop hearing candidates talking any more about Joe, "a real American." Real Americans are in it together. But not Joe the Slogan. He's a slacker.
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[Cresent City Kid]

1. It's funny that they use a plumber in this way

What they want him to do is fix a leak metaphorically. They want as little as possible to trickle down the "pipes" of our economy.

This is exactly where we need to hit McCain from here on. Don't just take down McCain, take supply-side down with him.

[malaise]

2. Nicely stated

The problem is that they couldn't even find a real a plumber. Everything about Rethugs is a lie.

[Cresent City Kid]

3. It gets better

They use a tax cheat to bolster their tax argument, and a welfare recipient to make the case against "spreading the wealth". SAME GUY!

[malaise]

4. Doesn't he also have problems with

his driver's license?