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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Watcher’s Council Nominations – Takin’ The 5th Edition
JoshuaPundit on May 22 2013 | Nominations:
Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.
‘Nuff said.
This week’s contest is dedicated to Rep. Darrel Issa..for relentless courage.
Council News:
This week, Ask Marion and Liberty’s Spirit earned honorable mention status with some great pieces.
You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.
Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.
It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?
So, let’s see what we have this week….
Council Submissions
- The Political Commentator – Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano going back…
- The Noisy Room – The Enemy Among Us – Even in Idaho
- Simply Jews – Glenn Greenwald or the douchebag’s lines of defense
- GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Shock And Shush
- Bookworm Room – Is the IRS scandal the worst political scandal in American history? I say “yes
- Gay Patriot – In 2008, we told you Obama wasn’’t the man you (thought you) were voting for. . .
- Joshuapundit-DHS Is Training Law Enforcement To Give Muslim Brotherhood, Radical Islamists A Pass
- The Razor – Scandal Scorecard
- The Colossus of Rhodey – New “Scotty” Spouts Off on the New Trek’s Politics
- Rhymes With Right – My Response To @WhiteHouse #ObamaCareInThreeWords Meme
- The Glittering Eye -A Series of Unfortunate Incidents
- The Mellow Jihadi – Autumn Sandeen, a Sailor with No ESWS Pin?
- VA Right! - VA GOP Convention: Conservatives and TEA Party Send Republican Establishment a STRONG MESSAGE! Overcome DIRTY TRICKS and WIN!
- The Right Planet – #Scandalpalooza
Honorable Mentions
- Ask Marion – Incompetent-gate, Corruption-gate and Progressive-gate – Part 1
- Liberty’s Spirit – The IRS, Obamacare,and Abuse of Political Power: An Issue
Non-Council Submissions
- Craig McMillan/WND -The Chicago mob in D.C.submitted by The Political Commentator
- Caroline Glick – Obama and the “Official Truth” submitted by The Noisy Room
- A.J. Adler/The Algemeiner – A Campaign of Willful Blindness on Terrorism submitted by Simply Jews
- Contentions – Exploit Hizballah’s Vulnerability submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
- American Thinker/Thomas Lifson-Never Mind Impeachment; Keep your Eyes on the Prize submitted by Bookworm Room
- Commentary -Accepting Responsibility Would Blow Obama’’s Circuits submitted by Gay Patriot
- Jonathan Rosenblum – The Price Of Blindness submitted by Joshuapundit
- Reason –The Myth of the Scientific Liberal submitted by The Razor
- OpenMarket.org – IRS Abuse of Americans Is Nothing New submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
- Big Jolly Politics – The Real Scandal with the IRS: Organizing for Action and the Chicago-style Misuse of Governmental Power submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Ta-Nahisi Coates/The Atlantic – How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Amil Imani –Saluting Pamela Geller: a Champion of Liberty submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
- Tea Party News Network – Lerner Pleads the Fifth, Issa Issues Subpoena for her to Appear Anyway submitted by VA Right!
- Doug Ross – That Crazy Benghazi Conspiracy Theory? It Just Got Less Crazy submitted by The Right Planet
- Mark Steyn – The Autocrat Accountants submitted by The Watcher
- Kirsten Powers/Daily Beast – How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Press submitted by Watcher
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Joe the Plumber Angered: 'I'm Just a Private Citizen'
Joe Wurzelbacher — better known as Joe the plumber — tells Newsmax that he was “angered” by the background checks Ohio officials ran on him after he was mentioned by John McCain at a presidential debate.
Asked by Newsmax’s Ashley Martella for his thoughts on the Barak Obama election victory, Joe said on Wednesday:
“I’m disappointed, but the American people have spoken. They’ve gotten what they wanted. Now it’s time to make sure that he goes to work for us. He’s got a lot of work to do.”
VIDEO: Joe the Plumber Interview: 'Angered Me, I'm Just a Private Citizen
He said the multiple background checks by officials in Ohio “angered me. I’m just a private citizen … That scares me just for the simple fact that other people might hesitate on questioning our elected officials and that worries me greatly for America.
“I’m not real happy about that at all.”
Asked if he felt the Democratic Party was behind the checks, he responded: “I’m not going to say they’re completely behind it. Maybe people who were connected to them.
“They wanted to find out something so they could try to discredit me.
“But to sit there and say that Barack Obama was directly responsible for such a thing — no, I’m not going to say something like that.”
Joe declared that for the Republicans to “get back into the game” following their election defeat, “they’ve got to remember that they’re conservatives.
“As soon as people say the Republican Party, all they think about is big business and corporations and guys that make $30 million a year. That’s not the case. I’ve voted Republican a lot in my lifetime because of conservative core values that built America. That’s what I think they need to get back to.”
Asked if he still plans to buy a plumbing business, as he originally stated, or to run for elected office, Joe said he could “better serve my fellow man by working with a new watchdog group I’m coming up with,” called Secure Our Dream.com, “that essentially will hold politicians accountable and make them remember that they actually got into this business to serve their fellow man, and not themselves.”
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