Wed
Aug 15 2007
12:13 am

We knew he had a questionable safety record for his coal mines. We knew that he blames an imaginary earthquake for his Utah mine disaster. We heard him use a tragic moment to rail against everything from global warming to Hillary Clinton. So I guess this shouldn't surprise. Excerpt:

"Mitch McConnell calls me one of the five finest men in America, and last time I checked he was sleeping with your boss," Murray told the [MSHA] inspectors...

Heckofa job, Bob! Heckofa job, Mitch and Elaine!

Oh, you can always find corrupt individuals in both parties. William Jefferson comes to mind. But this really continues the Authoritarian pattern of today's GOP as orchestrated perfectly by the Bush administration. The same Bush the whole GOP proudly hung its future (and that of the world) on not so very long ago. And the same Bush who was the GOP's hero up until about the past year.

"W" "THE PRESIDENT"! We hardly knew ya. But many of us knew better.

BONUS!: Is Ragsdale really any more guilty for things that have happened under his watch than W is for those under his? How is the evidence different?

R. Neal's picture

Watching that guy talk gives

Watching that guy talk gives me the creeps. Somehow I suspected this. Thanks for doing the, uh, fact checking!

Factchecker's picture

I will have your jobs. They are gone. The clock is ticking.

A better title would be "GOP Senate Leader calls Bob Murray one of the five finest men in America?".

redmondkr's picture

I watched a couple of

I watched a couple of interviews last week with mine safety officials and all I could think of was, "What did that bastard do for Bush to get his job?"

How many Michael Browns does it take to fill a corrupt administration?


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Andy Axel's picture

When I was in college, I got

When I was in college, I got involved in the UMWA strike. It was quite a learning experience.

A manager of mine here at the phone company (former CWA shop foreman) tells me a story involving a CWA wildcat strike, scabbing, the fellers from a local UMW chapter in Eastern Kentucky, and a shotgun.

[calling up the pole to the scab]

"Don't you know they's a strike on? Whatchoo doin' on that pole, Mister?" [cocks weapon]

"What am I doing? Gettin' off this goddamn pole."

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