The Politicker's Azi Paybarah wonders whether the continuing saga over The Great School Bus Mess of '07 has damaged the Bloomberg administration's ability to implement an education agenda between now and 2009.

It is a damned good question.

The NY Post editorial board, normally a strong supporter of Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein, seems to have now discovered how screwed up the school administration is at its core. And the fact that the Post continues to editorialize about how stupid this bus reorganization has been may be a sign that they won't allow the administration to simply sweep its own incompetence under the rug any more.

New Yorkers can tolerate bureacratic screw-ups. But they don't like mayors who enable/defend those same screw-ups, or the idea of guys wearing nice suits working their Blackberries in warm offices while little kids are freezing on street corners waiting for buses that may not arrive.

This is about so much more than buses at this point. What a shame it has come to this.