Robert Novak’s recent run-in with an 86-year-old homeless man is the story that just keeps on giving.

Via ThinkProgress, we find that Novak’s biggest detractors, Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, released a statement yesterday on the incident:

Our sympathies go out to the victim of Novak’s action. Once again Novak has demonstrated his callous disregard for the rights of others, as well as his chronic inability to accept responsibility for his actions.

We have long argued that responsible adults should take Novak’s typewriter away. The time has arrived for them to also take away the keys to his Corvette

Really? We feel for both Plame and Wilson, but isn’t a statement on a traffic matter a little too much? After all, they decamped for New Mexico a few years back to flee Washington’s cut-throat political scene, so throwing their two cents in on Novak’s bad driving habits (and trying to draw a comparison to his disregard for state secrets) strikes us as a little on the foolish side.

As this rate, the Novak incident will spawn its own name (Novakgate), it’s own advocacy group (Victims of Robert Novak’s Corvette), an overblown congressional hearing (“Compassionate Conservatism and Pedestrian Deaths: Do Links Exist?”) and TV ads (“Robert Novak ran over me. Robert Novak is a Republican. Imagine what Republicans will do to you when you’re 86.”). If anyone can use this against John McCain, our hats go off to you.