the kind of irreverence and concern for good government that festers (festers?) here is the same kind that we found in the irreverence of B. Franklin and his constant gardening of the various ideas of the day.
or even other humorists of the past, and culminating in the massive humor of 'the new deal' (a laugh riot), gang wars, WWII (the show never ended if you were in the right crew of performers)
and all the way to Mad Magazine and Fat Freddies Follies (I will not say kahat).
and then here.
with a side track to screaming Jim (Screaming Sam) and others.
then here.
So this place is mainstream.
It's Obama who's in a swampy backwater.