No, you are NOT Joe the Plummer

Gosh those commercials annoy me.  

When these people in the McCain commercials say "I am Joe the Plummer", does that mean that, like the real Joe plummer, they are unlicensed in their craft and make, on an average, $48,000/yr doing said craft in the State in which they reside.  

American Hero and analyst par excellence Daniel Schorr lays it out thusly.  

Mr. Schorr is 92.

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And remember, REMEMBER dear reader, just a few weeks ago when I posited on the trajectory of energy prices in relation to the political desires of those behind those particular purse strings...

And, now, this:

GAS PRICES DROP RECORD AMOUNT.  

with eight days before the election, a re-updating of the charts I referenced previously changes my diagnosis from "relatively inconclusive" to

GOTCHA!!!!!!