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January 23, 2006

Mine Safety - Now?

In 1958, when Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia was elected to the Senate for the first time, 358 people were killed in coal mining accidents in the United States. Since that time, the man has become a master at finding federal dollars for projects in his state, but even the New York Times acknowledges he has done little for miners.

For better or worse, coal is ever a prime economic resource for West Virginia - a lodestone for corporations, and still a millstone for too many miners. This has been true through the political ages, right up through the powerful reign of the state's Democratic favorite son, Senator Robert Byrd, who has packed West Virginia with highway projects and other pork-barrel goodies that have somehow failed to securely touch the lives of the long-suffering coal miners.
Now, after two mining accidents in a relatively short period of time, Byrd has decided mine accidents are the fault of the Bush administration.

I wonder...will Robert Byrd speak out against the mining industry itself, or will the $21,000 a year they give him ensure that he keeps his ire pointed at Bush? (Corrected number)


posted by Slublog at 01:07 PM
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I am totally amazed at politicians like Byrd, Kennedy and all others on both sides who have been in office for as long as they have. It is truly past time for term limits, their arrogance just grows and grows the longer that they remain in office.
Sadly no one in WV will see that Byrd is just a leech sucking at the blood of taxpayers. He will, unfortunately be able to convince a portion of WV voters that these deaths are the fault of the president.
How pathetic!

Posted by: The Real Steve on January 23, 2006 02:11 PM

Neither of these mines were named for Robert Byrd, were they? Or waybe the highway that leads to the mines was. Or perhaps the hospital that sent the emergency crews was the Robert Byrd Hospital. Or maybe the offices where they held the press conferences were named after the esteemed Senator.

Oh, yeah, the disasters themselves are Bush's fault.

Posted by: wiserbud on January 23, 2006 02:21 PM

If Bush rolls over on this one the way they let that despicable mayor/combo tag team from LA try to say that Katrina's devastation was all the feds fault they deserve the beating they get. What the hell is the job of a senator, a democrat senator of the people no less, if not to insure that the single biggest industry in his state is safe and fair to its workers?

Byrd is a disgrace and the way some people defer to him as if he is some honorable elder statesman makes my stomach turn.

Posted by: JackStraw on January 23, 2006 02:36 PM

mayor/governor combo....sigh

Posted by: JackStraw on January 23, 2006 02:38 PM

I believe that Sen. Byrd was elected to the Senate in 1948. I say this because I was doing some newspaper research on the Feb-Mar 1949 time period and he was listed in a newspaper article as Sen. Byrd of WV. Unless there was another Sen. Byrd of WV.

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