I thought about making tomorrow night’s Stranger Election Night Bash a fundraiser for the bus driver from the Issaquah school district who got fired for flipping off the president. No need, as Angela let us know in today’s Morning News: the driver has a new gig.

So screw the clenchbutts at Mindyourmanners Seattle. Like I said in my post earlier today, Bush is the least popular U.S. President since Richard Nixon, a fact he’s blissfully unaware of thanks to the bubble in which he moves. Remember this clueless quote from Laura Bush? Asked last year by ABC news about the president’s lousy poll numbers, Laura Bush said…

…as I travel around the country, most of the people I see think we’re doing the right thing.

Well, yeah, most of the people Laura and George Bush see as they travel around the country would be inclined to think the president is doing a swell job—because most of the people the president and Mrs. Bush and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld appear before are pre-screened audiences of true believers. People that wanted to be in the same room with Bush—at taxpayer sponsored events—have had to sign loyalty oaths.

So let’s hear it for the brave local bus driver who managed to pierce Bush’s bubble and let him know how a real, non-screened, non-loyalty-oath signing, tax-paying American citizen feels about him. That bus driver is an American hero—just like the guy who told Dick Cheney to “go fuck yourself” when the VP visited New Orleans after Katrina and the woman who scolded Condi Rice for “[shopping] for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!”

And let’s hear it for Seattlest, which managed to dig up more evidence of this hard-working, truth-telling bus driver’s efforts to pierce the president’s bubble.