Thanks for posting that, Bob. I wasn't aware, when I heard the story, that it was Eighth District Congressional Representative Dave Reichert who got the driver fired and has since been bragging about it.

I think that Reichert might be trying a little grandstanding and it may just backfire on him. Reichert's main claim to fame is that he was King County sheriff when Gary Ridgeway, the so-called "Green River killer," a serial murderer of several young women, was finally tracked down (through DNA evidence) and captured. As a congressman, Reichert has been lack-luster and, generally, a Bush yes-man. He was a pretty good cop (hence, undoubtedly, his quickness to pounce on the "disorderly conduct" of a school bus driver), but has been generally comatose as a congressional representative. At a recent debate sponsored by the Seattle Times newspaper, Reichert displayed a remarkable lack of knowledge of current issues, and the only ideas he seemed to have were second-hand Bushisms.

Reichert's challenger in this Tuesday's election is a very sharp young woman named Darcy Burner, who has shown a good grasp of the issues and has some fairly firm ideas. Reichert may very well be in deep doo-doo!

The Reichert-Burner contest is in the Eighth Congressional District and I won't be able to vote in that one because I live in the Seventh District. But I will be voting for incumbent Jim McDermott, who has been a royal pain in the ass to the Bush administration and intends to continue being such.

Don Firth

P. S. I'm a bit confused here. Rabbi Sol, who started this thread says that this took place in Wisconsin. But the newspaper report I just read said that the bus driver worked for the Issaquah school district.   Issaquah is east of Lake Washington, near Bellevue. Bush was in Bellevue recently (Medina and Hunt's Point, specifically, where the rich folks live), raising campaign funds for people such as Reichert.

Or did two school bus drivers flip Bush the bird? Perhaps this is a trend.