Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME hes so outraged by GOP overspending, hes quitting the party and hes the bulls-eye of its target audience. Wurzelbachers been in the news for his homophobic remarks earlier this week, in which he said hes told queers to stay away from his children.
Well, more elections. Big Government is never popular in theory, but the disaster aid, school lunches and prescription drugs that make up Big Government have become wildly popular in practice, especially now that so many people are hurting. Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME hes so outraged by GOP overspending, hes quitting the party and hes the bulls-eye of its target audience. But he also said he wouldnt support any cuts in defense, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid which, along with debt payments, would put more than two-thirds of the budget off limits. Its no coincidence that many Republicans who voted against the stimulus have claimed credit for stimulus projects in their district or that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal stopped ridiculing volcano-monitoring programs after a volcano erupted in Alaska. We cant be the antigovernment party, Snowe says. Thats not what people want.