The King makes an appointment
It's Congressional Recess time, so it must be time to appoint someone the Senate rejected. Sure enough:
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush appointed former energy executive Richard Stickler to head the federal mine safety agency on Thursday, even though the U.S. Senate rejected Stickler's nomination twice in two months.We don't need a Senate or a House or even the Courts. We have a king.
posted by walldon | 9:19 AM
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Miners ain't likely to vote for the GOP much, anyway. May as well thin the herd, eh?
Sen Jay Rockefeller's (D, W.Va.)statement:
“President Bush today has essentially said that the safety of our miners in West Virginia and across the country is a not a priority. Over the course of the last year, U.S. Senators from Coal States across the country have said that Richard Stickler is not the right person to carry out this absolutely critical job. The mines he ran when he was in the industry were some of the most dangerous and most frequently cited for safety violations in the entire industry. His mines had a rate of preventable accidents that was as much as three times the national average. In fact, despite broad bipartisan support for new, more aggressive mine safety laws, Richard Stickler said in his Senate nomination hearing that no new laws were necessary.
“The MINER Act we passed earlier this year was the right first step toward protecting our miners. But the appointment of Richard Stickler today to enforce and carry out that law is the decidedly wrong decision.”
Only 3X the rate of miners' deaths in Stickler-run mines. Go, culture of life!
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