Once more, with feeling: Seriously? Really?

Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher is back, still missing a plumbing license. That's not stopping him from lecturing actual plumbers -- some of them, I believe, actually named Joe -- about how unions somehow are conspiring to destroy civilization as we know it.

"Joe the Plumber's" argument? That the Employee Free Choice Act is some sort of mortal threat. Except that, when he came face to face with plumbers at one of his events, they weren't having any of it.

Some of the loudest jeers in the audience were saved just for Samuel. You see, it's hard to lecture people about how things are when they have more license to speak than the speaker himself.

From KDKA Channel 2:

UNION MEMBER #1: Joe the Plumber, he don't have a license. He ain't a plumber.

UNION MEMBER #2: So for the Republican party to take a position that this is the epitome of a working person makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to anybody here that has to pay taxes.

Many of the people in that audience are members of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (UA), a proud supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act.

It wasn't just one audience in Pittsburgh, though. Before he spoke, Thomas Bigley, the business manager for Pittsburgh's Plumbers Local 27, blasted Samuel.

"It's definitely a slap in the face to every real plumber out there," he said, arguing that the he should be regarded as "Joe the imposter," as he is not a licensed plumber.

That's not stopping Samuel, who's refused to say if he's receiving appearance fees for the anti-Employee Free Choice Act tour, instead of taking time to, you know, earn his plumbing license.