They're not irrelevant, and they're not going away. Limbaugh and Hannity have coined the phrase "the Obama recession" and now it's all over the cable news.
Our response has to be the phrase "the Bush Republican Depression." Period.
We're all screwed -- all of us! -- by this economic meltdown, which is entirely the fault of free market deregulation and Reaganomics, and they're blaming a man who hasn't even moved into the White House yet?! Truly insane. Look, I know it's fun to pretend that the far-right doesn't matter anymore, but seriously -- we ignore these hooples at our own peril.