Heeeeee’s baaaack!

You remember Joe the Plumber, aka: Joe Wurzelbacher, the unlicensed plumber who John McCain used as a prop in the waning days of his campaign.

Well, he’s got a book out (who doesn’t?).  And in the fine tradition of Scott McClellan, he’s biting the hand that fed him.  Or perhaps snarking down the whole arm.  We don’t know.  The book’s not quite out yet. He’s just promoting it.

So he went on Glenn Beck’s radio program yesterday to discuss “Fighting for the American Dream”.  What can we expect?  The vaunted “inside look” at the campaign.  Why?  Because, according to Joe, he’s smarter than most.

“I like to think I’m a little more educated than some out there in politics just because it is interesting to me,” he said.

How’d he like the campaign?

“I honestly felt more dirty after I was on the campaign trail and saw some things that took place,” Wurzelbacher said.

Like what?

He really doesn’t say.  He was doing the “promote-a-book” thing where you tease someone with enticing parts of an expose’ to get you to buy the book (which is out later this month).

Finally, he came up with the bailout.  Yeah, that’s the ticket.  The bailout.

“When I was on the bus with him, I asked him a lot of questions about the bailout because most Americans didn’t want it to happen – yet he voted for it,” he said.  “At the same time he’s talking about making someone famous if they even think about putting pork in the bill.  We all know how much pork was in the $700 billion bailout package.  Why did he vote for it?”

“I asked him pretty direct questions, and some of the answers you guys are going to receive … they appalled me,” he said apparently alluding to the promise that his book will be a tell-all.  “I was angry.  I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.”

Why didn’t he?

“Because the thought of Barack Obama scared me even more,” he said.

Hmmmm…. OK, Joe.  We’ll see if your strategy of throwing Senator McCain under the bus works out – even if he didn’t discard you when he could have.

Thanks to Christian Science Monitor for above.

Joe is a piece of …….(pause)…..work….his book will be out and it will become the new fruitcake at Xmas time.  You know past around from person to person as a gift and no one really reads it.  But I hear it has mazes and pop ups for those who do try to read it.