In fact, all the Repugs care about, and all they have ever done, is try to line the pockets of a small group of East Coast Elites with everyone else’s money under the guise of protecting some sort of “capitalist system.”

Charltans all except for the Dems who oppose them and the dopes who vote for them.

>>Mustard,you’re out of date. Three people in
>>Ohio’s government aren’t coming back from leave.

Well gawrsh, Lyin’ Mike, you’ll have to forgive me if I ask for a link to back that up. What with your name and all, I don’t feel comfortable accepting that without some factual backup.

I’ll admit I haven’t been performing round-the-clock surveillance of news articles related to Joe the “plumber”, but the last I heard (around the end of November), Helen Jones-Kelley was put on administrative leave for a month at the insistence of the outraged Repuglican Machine. The Machine wanted her head, of course, but there was no evidence of any political or criminal intent, and the woman DID, as director of the Department of Job and Family Services, have legitimate reasons why she may have looked into his background. None of the results of her record-checking were made public nor were they shared inappropriately.

The Repugs just wanted some blood to spill because their hero, Joe the “plumber” had been exposed (not by Jones-Kelley, but by reporters investigating him) as a fraud, a sham, a charlatan, a scammer, a confidence man, a fake. There was also talk of a low-level functionary in the police department who got spanked when a reporter snookered him into looking into Joe the “plumber”‘s criminal history.

>>This Republican machine you speak of isn’t
>>even running the state.

Ah, there you go again. Doing your name proud. I never said they were “running the state”. I said that in their anger over Joe the “plumber” having been revealed as a fake, they pushed mightily (yet unsuccessfully) for someone’s head to roll.

You can bet your boots that if Joe the “plumber” had turned out to be everything he said, and an exemplary father, a red-blooded tax-paying American, a pillar of his community, and a savior of lost puppies, the Machine would have sat back on its laurels, smirking. Too bad for them, just the opposite happened.

Instead, he turned out to be a joke, and the Repugs’ knickers are all in a twist.

This Republican machine you speak of isn’t even running the state.

>>Notice they fired the guys who went through
>>his files.

Ahh, Mike. Yer lyin’ again. They didn’t fire “the guys”; in the face of massive pressure from the Repuglican Machine, Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Department of Job and Family Services was put on administrative leave for a month. Just to give an idea of the wrath she incurred from the far right, She was receiving protection from the Ohio Highway Patrol during her leave.

I don’t blame the Repugs for being pissed though; they built up a hero who was a plumber, looking to buy the business he worked for, and was a red-blooded American.

Imagine the stinging shame when it turned out he wasn’t a plumber, he had no plans to buy the business, and he owed back taxes. Uh-oh. Awkward.

>>I certainly don’t think you need a license
>>to be a plumber, except maybe to lay pipe
>>for buildings.

I suppose, technically, you don’t need a license to be an electrician, an automobile driver, an airline pilot, a brain surgeon, or an airplane engineer. If you’re a good enough
bullshitter, you can go through the motions.

The fact remains, you need a license to be a plumber in Ohio, and to get a license, you need to have apprenticed to a real plumber, and Joe the “plumber” did not do so.

Notice they fired the guys who went through his files. At least the thugocracy isn’t fully in charge.

>>I don’t think getting the license is the only
>>definition of being qualified.

Aw, c’mon, Lyin’ Mike. Quit trying to justify Joe The Phony Plumber. He was a fraud.

#8, SparkyOne. Prison time?

http://tinyurl.com/5dx4wh

Now they know to look really close at those release papers he is handing them.