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If these guys are attacking Bush, it's more evidence that the conservative coalition is disintegrating. Several other more rational conservatives have disengaging themselves from Bushrecently too, and the anti-immigration wackos have been against him for some time.
The Bush coalition included a lot of disparate groups and was held together by the expectation that President Bush would deliver the goods (military victory, an end to abortion, low taxes, and ordinary graft in large quantities.) When people realized that he wasn't going to be able to deliver, they started to go their separate ways, since they don't agree on a lot of issues.
The US will still be 30% wingnut, but if they lose their unity they'll lose their power. The way Congress was run, for most of the last 6 years the US was ruled by the majority of the majority -- moderate and rational Republicans were mostly squashed, and President Bush was more than happy to play along with Delay and Hastert. But they've lost Congress and have no leverage any more.
The media will be the last ones to get the news, of course. They'll be catering to the wingers for a year after the wingers are definitively defeated.
