Fired for Flipping Off Bush

[FORD]

Originally posted by knuckleboner
fire her.

what she does on her own time is up to her. while she's driving a school bus, she doesn't need to be doing things like that. whether it's to the president or to some jackass driver who cut her off, you don't get to make obscene gestures.

she's a public employee, a representative of the school district.

i'd grudgingly accept a harsh reprimand. but that behavior should not be acceptable.

And what about the unacceptable behavior of the public employees whom she flipped off?

[FORD]

Originally posted by sadaist
Is it still 2002? I'm pretty sure he was elected to the office by a clear majority in 2004.

But then again, a lot of strange things happened in 2004. Some crappy, drunk, greedy, angry band toured under the name of Van Halen. Maybe we were actually in a parallel universe for that year. "Bizarro World"

No, we've been in Bizarro World (or possibly Hell) since December 12, 2000. And hopefully will begin the slow escape from there on Wednesday.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Looks like she's got all the time in the world to do something now!

So, its ok to flip people off and use obscenities in front of little school kids now?

Wrong is wrong.

Don't act like its not wrong.

So you're saying the entire Republican leadership should be fired for playing hide the sex-predator?

[FORD]

Reichert is a lying piece of shit, like his idol, the Chimp!!

WA-08: Reichert Caught In Lie About Driver Who Flipped Bird To Bush
By Greg Sargent | bio

A few days ago, a story broke out of Washington state saying that a school bus driver got fired by a local school board last June for giving the finger to President Bush. The story's set off a lot of buzz in Washington political circles, because of an unanswered question at the center of the tale: Did Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA), who was with Bush during the incident, engineer the driver's firing behind the scenes as retribution for insulting the President? His spokesman has been saying that he didn't. But now Reichert -- who's fending off a tougher-than-expected challenge from Dem Darcy Burner -- has been caught on tape boasting to an audience of Republicans that, yes, he did engineer the driver's firing as retribution for the insult to Bush.

A recap: The 43-year-old driver was bussing a load of middle-school kids from the Issaquah school district back from the Seattle zoo when Bush and Reichert, who was sitting next to the President, passed slowly by in the Presidential motorcade. As this Associated Press story puts it, that's when the driver "extended the old one-finger salute." The driver was subsequently fired by the school district's board, and her union has filed a grievance for wrongful termination.

Now that the story has just come out and gone national, Reichert spokesperson Kimberly Cadena -- and the school district rep -- have both been insisting that Reichert didn't engineer the firing, and that it wasn't political. From the AP:

Reichert later called [the school superintendant] to tell her about the incident, but by the time he got her on the phone, the bus driver had already been fired. District officials had already learned about it because the driver bragged to her colleagues about what she had done, Cadena said.

District spokeswoman Sara Niegowski said the firing was not politically motivated.

"The bus driver was not terminated for making an obscene gesture at the president. The bus driver was terminated for making an obscene gesture in view of the students," Niegowski said. "That's not the role modeling we need for our students."

The Reichert campaign further denied responsibility for the firing by telling local KIRO TV that Reichert called the school superintendendant "one week after it happened." The news channel also claimed the decision to fire the driver had already been made.

But uh-oh -- it turns out that Reichert told a rather different story on August 12 to a group of Republicans, who'd be more likely to cheer Reichert for getting the woman axed. A tracker for the Washington Democratic Party recorded the talk, and the party has now sent TPM a copy, which you can listen to right here. Here's what Reichert said:

As the motorcade went by the President and I drove by on I-5. The President was having a great time. He was waving at everybody. And waving at the kids he got the biggest kick out of the kids leaning out the window to say hello to the President of the United States. The sad part of it is, though, we got to the last bus...the bus driver flipped the President off. [Loud boos.] So the very next day, you know what I did? I called the superintendent of that school district. And that bus driver no longer works for that school. [Loud cheers.] That's the old sherriff part of me still around.

One day after? One week after? Which is it? Taking Reichert at his own word, it looks as if Reichert did get the woman fired for giving the Prez the finger. We've checked in with the Reichert campaign to see if they can account for this, shall we say, inconsistency.

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[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by DrMaddVibe
Wrong is wrong.

Don't act like its not wrong.

Stupid is stupid.

Quit pretending that it's such a big deal.

[knuckleboner]

Originally posted by FORD
And what about the unacceptable behavior of the public employees whom she flipped off?

immaterial. otherwise, it's a license for vigilantism.

but this has nothing to do with who she flipped off.

any school bus driver making any obscene gesture while on the job to ANYBODY should be reprimanded.

[DEMON CUNT]

How could Rep. Reichert have seen the bus driver's finger when his head was obviously bobbing in Bush's lap?

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by FORD
And what about the unacceptable behavior of the public employees whom she flipped off?

That is a matter of opinion. Even if your opinion is correct it does not excuse her actions and she deserves to be fired. I can not believe people defend her actions. I have three kids andI would be pissed if my kids were on that bus.

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by 4moreyears
I have three kids andI would be pissed if my kids were on that bus.

Sure, but would you let them be Congressional Pages?


"Hey kids, how big are your pee pees?"

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by 4moreyears
That is a matter of opinion. Even if your opinion is correct it does not excuse her actions and she deserves to be fired. I can not believe people defend her actions. I have three kids andI would be pissed if my kids were on that bus.

How would you have felt if your kids saw The President flip the bird to the TV cameras?

Or if they heard Darth Cheney tell a US SENATOR to "go fuck yourself"?

Or are you only offended when it's a Lib?

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by LoungeMachine
How would you have felt if your kids saw The President flip the bird to the TV cameras?

Or if they heard Darth Cheney tell a US SENATOR to "go fuck yourself"?

Or are you only offended when it's a Lib?

If they did it while driving my kids to school I would be just as pissed. I have told people to fuck off before. I told Nicole the other day. But I did not do it while driving 45kids home from school. It is not what you say but it is who you do it in front of that makes the behavior questionable.

[Nickdfresh]

If she had flipped-off Clinton, would you be as pissed?

[Spc. Graner]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
If she had flipped-off Clinton, would you be as pissed?

Hey, isn't that the President with the ahem, blowjob problem?

8===D - - O`:~

You liberal poontangs just can't get enough of that dirty Clinton stuff!

Hell, I bet ya'll get 'rections just thinking about him!

Speaking on Clintons, have you seen her lately? DAMN!

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
If she had flipped-off Clinton, would you be as pissed?

It wouldn't have matted if she flipped off Clinton, Kerry, or Joe Schmoe standing on the corner.

A bus driver, a school district employee with direct contact with children, shouldn't be flipping off ANYONE while at work.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Spc. Graner
Hey, isn't that the President with the ahem, blowjob problem?

8===D - - O`:~

You liberal poontangs just can't get enough of that dirty Clinton stuff!

Hell, I bet ya'll get 'rections just thinking about him!

Speaking on Clintons, have you seen her lately? DAMN!