Bad news for Bush and the GOP

Robert Novak is a very conservative journalist (the one that first outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent to the world) and this is his take on last Tuesday's election results:

This morning, columnist Bob Novak wrote of congressional Republicans fearing for next year's elections after Tuesday's losses, "The antidote to avoid that fate is to keep as far away from President Bush as possible, a lesson underlined by the president's failed election rescue mission for former Virginia state Attorney General Kilgore. The consequences may be profound. As his approval rating dipped, Bush increasingly has been treated in Congress as a lame duck. Tuesday's Virginia outcome increases the propensity of Republican senators and House members not only to avoid their president on the campaign trail but also to ignore his legislative proposals." [Chicago Sun-Times, Novak Column, 11/10/05]

Schadenfreude.