Ask "The One" A Question and You Can Lose Your Job

I wrote a piece yesterday on The Crucifixion of Joe the Plumber, the concerted effort by the left to punish the guy for asking Obama a good question and getting a very revealing answer. Hot Air is now reporting that city authorities in Toledo are going to put him out of business because of licensing requirements:

Wurzelbacher registered as an apprentice with the Ohio State Apprenticeship Council in November 2003, according to Dennis Evans, spokesman with the Department of Job and Family Services. Records show his training, which was sponsored by A & W Newell Co. of Toledo, should have been wrapped last year.

“We don’t have a record of completion,” Evans said. “All we know is that he registered in the program and has gone through to the point where we should have record of completion, but we don’t.”

And that’s not the only record that’s missing from Wurzelbacher’s file. He doesn’t have a plumbing license required by the city of Toledo to practice, according to a staffer with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher, who now works for Newell Plumbing & Heating Co., said the owner, Al Newell, has a plumbing license and that “because he works for someone else, he doesn’t need a license.”

But even that’s not true, according to the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher can’t legally do plumbing work without a license, regardless of his boss’s certification.

A staff person with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection told On Call this afternoon that her division will contact Wurzelbacher to notify him that he can’t work without a license.

“We’re trying to track him down,” she said.

I bet they are. All of these attempts to destroy Joe doesn't change the fact that he asked a very valid question and revealed Obama for the socialist he is. No amount of defamation of this average American can undo the damage that single question did. And the lefties that are going after him run the risk of ticking off millions of other middle Americans who see this as a heavy-handed attempt at political retribution. Can we expect more of this kind of activity from a future Obama administration and their surrogates? You bet. There have already been plenty of examples of Obamanoids trying to intimidate critics and suppress negative information.