That's Australian for a thumpin', mate

Australian voters put a smackdown on Prime Minister John Howard, one of President Bush's most stalwart international supporters. The opposition Labor Party didn't just run against the war in Iraq:

Rudd has named global warming as his top priority, and his signing of the Kyoto Protocol will leave the U.S. as the only industrialized country not to have joined it. (link)

Just how much more isolated can the United States become?