By BaxterNot since the days of G. Gordon Liddy — that domestic terrorist and supporter of John McCain for President — have there been so many plumbers in politics.
Being innately suspicious creatures, we cats found it very odd that Samuel J. Wurzelsmurfermuzzlinbacher or whatever his name is conveniently "showed up" when Senator Obama was canvassing an Ohio neighborhood and, confronting the Senator, quizzed him on his small-business tax plan.
Too neatly to be believed, Mr. Wurzelmufflergizzardbuttkins said he was about to buy a business that was making — zounds, what a coincidence! — more than $250,000 a year. That figure is, amazingly, the point at which Senator Obama's tax plan begins to kick in.
And the rest, as we know, is history. Now, not only is Senator McCain on a self-described "Joe the Plumber Tour," but Mr. Wurzelorgansmifflinbutton — having enjoyed (or not enjoyed) his 15 minutes of fame — is trying to cash in by peddling a book proposal.
Why do we cats smell a rat?
That is, aside from the fact that we're very good at smelling rats.
Why do we think that "Joe the Plumber" was, from the beginning, a McCain campaign plant?
We had the same eerie feeling when the story surfaced about a female McCain fan who claimed she was attacked at an ATM by an African-American Obama supporter who, she said, carved a "B" on her face. It turns out that our instincts were correct: The whole story is fake.
We'd laugh, except for the fact that this one is really, really, really ugly. Remember Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two sons in 1995? Her initial story was that a black man attacked her and hijacked the car with the boys in the back seat. After Newt Gingrich blamed national Democrats for that alleged horrific crime, it turned out that Ms. Smith had done it herself.
As Senator Obama has famously said, enough is enough. Election Day 2008 cannot come too soon for us.
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