Joe The Plumber Part 3

Jed, I love you man. I can always count on jedreport.com to come through with the scoop. Here you go:

This will hopefully be the last I have to say about Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber occupying way too much of our national mindspace this morning, and I'll do it in bullet point format.

Yes, his taxes would go down under Obama. (He makes less than $250k.)

No, his taxes would not go up under Obama. (The cost of the firm he's seeking to buy is $250K, not it's annual revenues. Nobody earning less than $250K will have their taxes hiked.)

No, he's not undecided, and he never was.

His full legal name appears to be Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.

He is a registered Republican and voted in the GOP primary in March.

His first registration was with the right-wing Natural Law Party (according to a press conference he held earlier this morning).

Also at his press conference he said that he was sad when he found out he was born in Toledo because it meant he was a "Yankee."

He's fond of calling Obama a socialist.

His story about his plumbing firm is not consistent. For starters, he now says the cost of the firm is $250K, which means under Obama's plan he'd get a tax cut.

He also told Obama that he'd been a plumber for 15 years. He's 34. He also says he has served in the military. So unless he was a military plumber, something doesn't add up.

He appears to have spent time as a resident of both Arizona and Alaska

Finally, yes, I'm aware of the speculation that he is related to Charles Keating's son-in-law, Robert M. Wurzelbacher of Cincinnati, Ohio. That Wurzelbacher spent 40 months in prison as part of John McCain's Keating Scandal, but even if they are related, I have trouble believing McCain was aware of the connection.