Statecraft Informer

Sparxafire!

Who is the cat that ate the canary in the coal mine?

So, Dick Stickler, your president’s choice to oversee mine safety in the U.S. is the equivalent of that ole horse show manager, David (”you’re doin’ a heckuva job, Brownie”) Brown, who was in charge of FEMA during the Katrina disaster. Now we have Stickler, with a dubious career of mediocre mine management presiding over worker safety in our mines. This is tantamount to appointing Lindsey Lohan as a driving instructor. Same ole story, sneaky, slimy recess appointment, against the will of a number of senators and victims of Stick’s management who protested that a mining industry insider was not a good choice to police mine safety. (Victims being family members of those who were killed in mines Stick managed!)

Your Statecraft Informer could just stamp her foot and burst into tears. And she would if it would do any good. But very little of what the SI does is worth a damn. So, we only get to ferret out Bush’s incompetents as disasters happen on their watch? I swear, I’ll bet at the very basis of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis is some level of incompetence at the federal level, by some bush appointee whose expertise is opera or canned goods or driving instruction.