Is Bush radioactive? We can only hope...

I love The McLaughlin Group. Although I rarely get a chance to watch it, I do watch the more noteworthy clips on my favorite blogs. It's just hilarious - it looks like it's shot in someone's basement. It's not difficult to picture Wayne's World being shot across the hall.

During a recent show, the panel discussed the "Bush Factor" this fall, and what it will mean for Congressional candidates, and I agree with their assertions. Polls are bearing this out as well; Bush campaigning for a candidate will most likely mean one thing: electoral poison.

Just a quick aside: who uses the word skedaddle? Too funny. I do like McLaughlin's list of Bush's legacy, though:

1. GOP House majority gone (he should have added the Senate, too)
2. Tanked the dollar's value
3. Red ink in federal budget
4. U.S./Iraq quagmire
5. U.S. recession and inflation
6. Then skedaddled out of town

It's still early, so Democrats had best not count their Congressional chickens yet, especially considering the recent poll that gave Congress a stunningly inept 9 percent approval rating. Nine percent?!? Don't members of Congress get at least 10 percent for showing up? Maybe Congress should change its name to C-O-N-G-R-E-S, and leave off the last S for stupidity. Sen. Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have done a pathetically inadequate job in combating the Bush agenda, most notably his wars in Iraq and on the environment, so they deserve whatever ratings they are getting. (To say nothing about the "investigations" of the Bush administration that have gone nowhere. I don't know what's worse - all of the crimes and impeachable offenses this administration has committed, or the fact that Democrats have let them get away with it.)

Both Reid and Pelosi ought not to be re-elected to their leadership positions next year, especially considering, in all likelihood, that the Democrats will pad their majorities in both houses of Congress.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see Bush's impact on the election this fall, be it positive or negative, for Republicans. Actually, the only good Republicans can hope to get from Bush is if our sitting Windshield Cowboy decides to go to Crawford to clear brush in lieu of campaigning for GOP candidates.