Joe the Plumber, er, Welfare King and Tax Cheat

Joe the Plumber was on welfare as a kid...twice. I've stopped being surprised by these types of revelations about Republicans. I mentioned before that they have a mysterious power to create their own reality...even if it bears no resemblance to actual reality. But this one raises my ire. Here we have a skinheaded lower-middle-class white male, whose tax burden would go up under John McCain and down under Barack Obama, a man who owes back taxes, was on welfare as a child, and who would likely be disqualified from voting under Ohio's draconian Republican-, imposed registration laws, spouting the hate-filled talking points of a party whose ideology and approach to governing has largely been discredited. If nothing else, it's at least entertaining.