Plunge this!

They're passin' out toilet plungers in Houston to galvanize the right-wing- Joe-the-Plumber vote, but the move isn't doing much for some of the conservative friends of The Brazosport News, who offered these comments ...

Kevin Whited of blogHouston:

my thought was sort of... if the toilet is stopped up, who got it that way?

And what stops up a toilet generally?

Not the best symbolism in my view from the guys in power. I guess pipe wrenches would have been a little extravagant, though.

Cory Crow of Lose An Eye, It's A Sport:

I think the plunger is an ironic symbol for local Republicans to be waving around. Given almost total control of local and State Gov't, they have managed to make a royal mess out of the place and have clogged up the pipes of good government with scandal, ham-fisted deregulation and clumsy privitation efforts.

They mean it as a tribute to Joe the Plumber, in reality they need to look inward and clean the Republican plumbing of bad politicians foisting bad legislation on the public.

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