Oh Oh! Better Call Joe the Plumber.

We woke up this morning to a frozen birdbath! Better call Joe the Plumber.

He's the guy that Barack Obama ran into in Ohio the other day that quizzed the candidate on his tax policy. Joe wanted to buy the plumbing company he worked for, and feared that he would be taxed to death if he made more than $250,000. The Republicans quickly pounced on Joe, and used him in the debate against Obama. His name came up 26 times! Now the evil mainstream media has done their job and uncovered some stuff about Joe:

Turns out he's not a licensed plumber.
Joe isn't his real name, it's Samuel. Joe is his middle name.
He only made $40,000 last year, and just like Sarah Palin, doesn't think paying taxes is patriotic, so he's got a lien against his house for not paying $1,200 in property taxes.
He's only voted one time, that was last May, and his name on the roles is mis-spelled. Did ACORN sign him up wrong to mess with the vote?

Like all the other slings and arrows thrown around in this campaign, Joe the Plumber is just another half truth.

Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg news has some thoughts on Joe the Plumber, too:

"The most dispiriting thing to come out of the debate was the morning after. I woke to see Joe (the plumber) Wurzelbacher's street in Holland, Ohio, lit up like Times Square with network and cable satellite trucks clogging the place.

I thought the press was beyond 23 mentions of Joe the Plumber by one candidate and three by the other, while Asian markets were dropping 10 percent and the Dow has been diving. Unless he starts making courtesy calls to fix the running toilets of the journalists making him famous, let's relegate Joe the Plumber back to the playroom with Bob the Builder or the 15-minute hall of fame with Harry and Louise and Ross Perot's crazy aunt in the attic.

Here's the reason for Joe: McCain has no argument left except that no one should have to pay taxes, and that Obama isn't one of us."

Read Margaret's full column HERE.