The WV mining disaster

Kevin Drum has a very interesting look at the Sago Mine disaster today. If you think there's no way that Bush administration politics could have had a hand in this tragedy, think again.

...after George Bush took office in 2001 the Mine Safety and Health Administration was stocked with coal mining executives who were distinctly less interested in mine safety than they should have been.

Read that post and then check out this one. It talks about the safety record of the mine that exploded. The Sago mine had a safety rating more than 3 times worse than the national average.

Chalk up another "heckuva job" for the cronies in t he Bush administration.