Another self-investigation

In the wake of last weeks mining accident in West Virginia....The white House has "promised a full investigation"....
Maybe that investigation should start with the Bush administration itself.....

After Pennsyvania's big mining accident in 2002....President Bush completely ignored the fact sheet put out by house Democrats which questioned why he had made so many cuts to mine safety programs....

The Bush administration proposed 7 million dollars in cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration.....even though coal mining fatalities had gone up for three years in a row....

Since 2001....the Bush Administration has also become more lenient toward mining companies facing serious safety violations....issuing fewer and smaller fines and collecting less than half the money that violators owed....