As a registered Republican who despises Mr. Bush, what the bus driver did was inexcusable. She should have at least been put on leave without pay while her previous record was checked to see if she had other infractions. Firing does not seem too extreme in this case.

The world is getting too rude and adults do not need to reinforce this trend in the presence of children. What people say or do in the privacy of their homes or other places where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy, as long as acknowledged laws are not broken, should be their business. What people do in public is open to the scrutiny of decency and the law.