This late, late edition of the Carnival is dedicated to Nyquil, Actifed,, Robitussin, and my sainted Irish grandmother’s concoction of one part Lipton Tea, one part (Irish) whiskey, and one part barley soup. Of course, Irish whiskey is one of those libations that goes well with just about anything – with the exception of barley soup. But my grandmother, God rest her, believed that barley cured everything including headaches, nausea, goiter, chilblains, croup, and the odd cancer. One thing is certain; don’t drink her remedy on an empty stomach.

Be that as it may, this past week has given us evidence yet again that cluelessness knows no party or ideology. Like a force of nature it simply exists, ready to erupt like a volcano and explode onto the public consciousness with triphammer force.

Witness if you please the total cluelessness of the French who continue to try and appease the unruly mobs that have caused auto insurance rates in that country to skyrocket. Or how about Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald, shown up by Watergate hero Bob Woodward whose pooh-poohing of the Fitzgerald investigation can now be seen in a slightly different light – as in Woodward wanting to stay out of jail. And then there’s al Zarqawai, the deadliest cluebat around, who decided it would be a good idea to crash a wedding party in Jordan with guests attired in both traditional garb and the latest fashion in bomb belts. The ploy didn’t work very well as evidenced by 200,000 Jordanians who took to the streets of Aman to tell the Merry Beheader that crashing weddings is very bad manners.

But I guess it’s no secret who the Cluebat of the Week had to be for this edition of the Carnival; the oldest political party on the planet, the Democratic Party of the United States.

I suppose I could have narrowed it down to Representative Jack Murtha. But Mr. Murtha’s position on Iraq has been well known for a year now. The fact that the MSM recently discovered this and decided it was news is irrelevant to our discussions. Because the cluelessness of the Democratic party was not evidenced by Murtha’s position on the war but rather by their somewhat comical and desperate response to the Republican gambit of making them go on record supporting that position.

Oh! The humanity of it! Watching the Democratic reps squirm like little kids during a boring Sunday sermon, the Republicans laid the wood to them but good. To see them reduced to trying to differentiate between “immediate withdrawal” and “immediate redeployment” was a side-splittingly funny demonstration of hair splitting. In the end, their entire cowardly party caved and, with the exception of 3 brave and forthright souls who voted for the unofficial party position of immediate withdrawal, all opted for hypocrisy in order to keep their chances for re-election secure.

Sic semper Moonbattis!

Here are 30 more examples of similarly confounding cluelessness. Click and enjoy!

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
(John Dryden)

Hey John! Great line on Democratic party reaction to the Iraq withdrawal resolution!
(Me)

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Equuschick (yeah, baby!) at The Common Room has the story of a dog owner who is not only clueless, but deserves a good thrashing.

Cluebat Hall of Famer Jesse Jackson is the well deserved target of two Carnival regulars this week. Mark Coffey has the blowhard dead to rights as his “Jackass of the Week” while Josh Cohen gives Jesse a few well aimed rhetorical slaps – both for Jackson’s intercession on behalf of last week’s Cluebat finalist Terrell (“I am not selfish”) Owens.

Giacomo has some prescient analysis on the various political moves undertaken by clueless Democrats and Republicans recently.

Wonder Woman has a real jaw dropper about how and why kids will not be able to sit on Santas lap in Switzerland.

More Democratic party hypocrisy on the war shown the light of day, this time by Duncan Avatar.

Jimmie K looks at some media reports on the French riots and gives them a good fisking.

Gullyborg has a post that wins in the “Article most likely to raise your blood pressure” category. Its about a clueless judge and what to do about him.

Jack Cluth at The People’s Republic of Seabrook (nice to have them back in the Carnival) has the liberal bill of particulars for the “Bush Lied” case.

Here are two pieces posted at Stop the ACLU blog. The first is by Kender the Magnificent who devastates the moonbats at ACLU by taking their positions on separation of church and state to their logical conclusion. Then Jay has some comments on the head scratching ruling of the 9th circuit on teaching Islam in schools (btw, don’t forget to vote for Jay and I in the “spades” category for Aaron’s Deck of Bloggers)

Miriam has a hilarious conversation with the Dish Network over her canceling their service.

Nickie Goomba has a funny bit on a new car for the clueless French. Hell, I didn’t even know the French still made cars. Does anyone still work in that country?

Our favorite street walker, Feisty Republican Whore, takes down (no, not like that!) Senator Rockefeller for his clueless comments on pre-war intel recently.

Ever see an elephant cry? Those pacific pachyderms at Elephants in Academia are saddened to find that some lawmakers they respected end up having feet of clay.

Bow deeply to Gajinbiker and thank him for this post skewering ID proponents, including Pat “Thunderbolt” Robertson.

If you haven’t been following the story of the capture of Jack Idema and his Task Force who are caught in an endless maze of bureaucratic red tape, you must go to Cao’s Blog (pronounced “key”) and find out the details to this shocking story.

Ogre has the scoop on the French surrender to the Islamists. Almost too ridiculous to be true. Alas, it is.

The Maryhunter has the facts regarding what is really going on at the US Civil Rights Commission and how politics is played in Washington.

If there is there anyone who can slay moonbats with a lethal combination of wit and sagacity better than Van Helsing, I haven’t found him yet. Read this piece on Algore’s latest outrage.

Here’s your weekly dose of outrageous Carnival satire, expertly penned by Carnival regulars The Nose on Your Face and In the Right Place.

Name one person that consistently demonstrates more cluelessness than Michael Newdow - who now wants to take God off of our money – and you win a cookie. Raven is rightly disgusted.

Newbie Neddy’s Palavar has the skinny on the blogosphere imbroglio that erupted recently with the “outing” of a federal prosecutor who writes a gossipy blog on the courts. Democrats asking “Is it real or is it Memorex?”

One of the more interesting new sites I’ve come across thanks to the Carnival is Slu-dog-O-Rama. This “R” rated post on some cluelessness at the US Postal Service is a must read.

GOP and the City takes the Democrats apart for highlighting their “leadership” on Iraq. Apparently, the clueless Dems think that losing politicians are their best spokesmen.

AJ at The Strata-Sphere shows just how big a cluebat Zarqawi really is for the attack he pulled off in Jordan.

Fred Fry illustrates some banking cluelessness on the part of Chase and why he’ll never have dealings with those worthies again.

Ze’ev at Israel Perspectives highlights some real stupidity on the part of what he calls “elites” in Israeli society when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians.

Finally, here’s my post on the cluelessness of the Pentagon with regard to the millions of documents that have been unearthed in Iraq and how they are not being publicized.