Having Nothing Better to Do, Joe the Plumber Sues Unemployed People

Tell you what, I'd sure hate to be Helen Jones-Kelley right now. That's because the former Ohio state official is being sued, along with two other now-fired government workers, by the one and only Rush Limbaugh.

Sorry, I mean Joe the Plumber…

Toledo-area plumber and 2008 presidential campaign fixture Samuel Wurzelbacher filed a federal lawsuit today that charges Ohio government officials with violating his constitutional rights by searching confidential government databases for information about him.

No sir, you don't mess with a man's constitutional rights like that, especially not a man who's a patriot like Samuel the Wurzelbacher. Good thing Joe's hired Judicial Watch, a "public interest group that investigates government corruption," to get him press coverage represent him in this most important matter.

"No American should be investigated for simply asking a question of a public official," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "It is unconscionable that high-ranking state officials pried into confidential government files in retaliation for Joe's exercise of his First Amendment rights."

Mmmm!

And we all know how strongly Joe feels about the First Amendment.

Tags: Bill of Rights, Joe the Plumber, Law & Order, Ohio

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Tags: Barack Obama, Fred Thompson, Jim Gilmore, John McCain, Law & Order, Roll Call, Rudy Giuliani, The Sopranos