The Coming Show

In sixty three days, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. After 8 years of governance by the GOP, if you want to call it that, the reality of having a democratic run government is slowly sinking in. The country is currently teetering on the brink of economic disaster, we have two wars going on and the task ahead for democrats to clean up Bush's giant mess is breathtaking and a little overwhelming.

We here at the Funhouse look forward to the good fight to come. Our wingnut rivals will be bringing on the stoopid in heavy doses, and liberal purists will test our patience. There is nothing remotely funny about the present state of America and the world, but Funny is nevertheless a necessary nutrient for the body politic and great effort will be made to deliver it in appropriate doses, along with the serious. Our correspondents and contributors are as clueless as any MSM counterpart, but the different is that we know it and they don't. So buckle up for the ride through snark land and parody park.

Chief of Operations -- Nightjar

No, I agree. A Constitutional Republic needs two viable parties to
work properly. The trouble is, that the devils bargain with the
Southern Strategy has come full circle. What we call Wingnuttery is
actually not the Republican Party nor loyal conservatism. What we now
have in charge of the GOP, are the remnants
of the conquered secessionist ideology of the Old South. Their beef is
with the Constitution itself, or those parts that are either explicit
or have evolved liberally into things like progressive taxation,
separation of church and state, total equality under the law and a
whole host of public laws that insure fairness and accountability, such
as privacy, and laws of God versus those of Men.

The conflict is currently intractable IMO, and who knows what will emerge out of the ashes of the also conquered Conservative Movement.

Sarah to the Rescue

McCain Campaign Autopsy

When we clear away the wreckage of the McPalin pileup, I think the whole socialism crapola, combined with the shrieking hordes of Palin Bloodworms, will get top billing for the differential diagnoses of fail. When they went down the red bait boulevard, it was a turn that not even the fawning Mccain press bootlickers could follow. He probably would have lost anyway, but that charge was the final nail in the coffin for the Mccain campaign. Just about every interview I’ve watched recently with wingnut Mccain surrogates, the first question the bobbleheads ask is "Do you really believe that Obama is a Socialist" and none, or very few, will say yes. It is true that most of the press are democrats, but they also know who butters their bread and careers. And it ain’t the GOS or the DNC. But letting wingnuts get by with the S word tag would hit too close to home, and that label, if left to stand about Obama, would paint them with the same red brush. IMHO

My Take on Peggy Noonan

Noonan on Palin in Debate with Biden

Noonan has by and large has been one of, and at times the chief Turd
Polisher in the conservative movement. She has been their in-house
intellectual and ideological filter during that time, and part of her
schtick is to mildly criticize wingnut candidates and leaders in a way
that seems humanizing and honest. Populism is something wingnuts fear
most coming from the left because it is the political arrow aimed
straight at the heart of what their really up to—and that is to snatch
up the lions share of wealth in this country from the middle class.
They believe it’s theirs to begin with, but for Marxist/liberal wealth
re-distributors picking their pockets to give it to the rabble workers.
I could well be wrong, but when Noonan goes after Palin as a populist
(but less evil wingnut model) she’s obtusely attacking dems who are the
real class warriors in her/their opinion. She’s making a bipartisan
case trying to negate Obama’s "Change message" in a a too clever by
half way. It’s how she operates.

Today is conspiracy theory Sunday at the Funhouse.

The Maverick and the Message Grifter

Funhouse assignment -- read Howard Kurtz of the WAPO

Just goes to show, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Mccain has
been a pot stirrer his whole life. Sometimes with actual principles
behind the stirring, and sometimes just for the hell of it. Air drop in
a pack of PavRovian message drivers and you have political combustion,
on an almost daily basis. Mccain’s persona and political strength has
been the opposite of the way these message grifters operate, so one day
we have Mccain doing his Bush like subservient repetition of the daily
talking points, the next you have “I’ll go it alone just like I did on
Iraq". A sad comedy is what you end up with. And a guy like Schmidt who
is venting his rage on the press for not going along so much this time
with the equivalence shit, largely due to the Palin disaster that even
the most dutiful Mccain news lackeys can’t abide being a heartbeat away
from the Presidency.

What Will Become of Today's Republican Party

Funhouse Query; What will become of today's Republican party?


Beginning with signing of the 60’s civil rights laws, and then
jumpstarted by Nixon’s Southern Strategy (would have happened without
the SS) it was inevitable that the Republican Party would eventually
become the Southern or Southeastern party. Meaning, that the
wingnuttery we see today which is dominating the GOP
and driving out moderate repubs, is nothing more than a slow osmosis of
Deep South ideology, as it has evolved over time. The religion in
government, harsh penal codes, war war war, and a kind of modern soft
white supremacy come from the politicians thru the people of that part
of the country and they have the numbers to get their way. This is why
wingnuts seem to be getting crazier by the day IMHO. the ones with half a brain see the writing on the wall of the GOP
becoming a permanent regional minority party, and knowing they have to
do something, but what . Instead, they get more wingnutty by the day,
pining for the second Reagan coming, which isn’t. The GOP
is dead as it exists today, and probably for some time to come with
southern wingnuts ruling the roost. Unless of course, democrats fuck up
so badly, it will give them a second chance. Which isn’t out of the
realm of possibility.