Mine Disaster CEO Is A Teabag Republican

10:34 pm EST April 6th, 2010 | Conservative | 8 Comments

It would be a surprise if he wasn’t. Sometimes the invisible hand is just invisible.

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8 Responses to “Mine Disaster CEO Is A Teabag Republican”

  1. jr says:
    April 6, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    Don Blankenship made 19.7 million in 2008. He donates to Toomeyites so he doesn’t have to spend the money to keep the workplace safe

  2. Frank DiSalle says:
    April 6, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    Tea Party kills miners – JR

  3. abanterer says:
    April 7, 2010 at 1:16 am

    I am willing to just claim that Blankenship bears a fair amount of responsibility for that disaster, and should be brought up on charges for it. It’d be nice if the fact that he IS responsible would some how shame the tea Party folk to shun him, as he would deserve. I suspect that they will end up defending him instead. Which is one of many reasons why I dislike them so much.

  4. Rheinhard says:
    April 7, 2010 at 10:22 am

    From a 2005 memo written by Blankenship:

    If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything other than run coal (i.e. build overcasts, do construction jobs, or whatever), you need to ignore them and run coal. This memo is necessary only because we seem not to understand that the coal pays the bills.

    Considering that any time those eeevil commie unions bring up things like worker safety, our noble patriotic capitalist Randian overlords demand they be excluded from our political discourse like the parasites they are (oh for the good old days when we could just send Pinkertons and hired goons to beat them to death!), then, um, yes, Frank.

  5. Svlad Jelly says:
    April 7, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Blankenship is a legendary wingnut here in the mountain state. Right wingers — I should say some right wingers — think he’s the next best thing to Sarah Palin, fightin’ the evul liebrul conspiracy single-handedly, while most of the rest of us think he should be thrown in jail for obvious reasons. I once got in a shouting match with a guy in a convenience store over Blankenship and his global warming nuttery. A very divisive public figure.

    Check out his Twitter page for some of the outlandish crap that comes out of this guy’s mouth, and imagine living in a state where he is the most prominent businessman, who very literally bought himself a state Supreme Court justice.

  6. Frank DiSalle says:
    April 7, 2010 at 3:47 pm

    Yes, that’s right, because there is a direct connection between being a member of a Tea Party, and being guilty of criminal negligence – it’s in the bylaws.

  7. Frank DiSalle says:
    April 7, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    I once got in a shouting match with a guy in a convenience store over Blankenship and his global warming nuttery.

    Well, there ya go ! Time to deport those Teabaggers “east”, eh? (wink, wink… nudge, nudge)

  8. abanterer says:
    April 7, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    Not what I said, Frank. I am saying that he is responsible for the safety of his employees, and by failing them, he has failed that responsibility, and that failure should come with a prison sentence. But, instead, here he is, supplying money to the tea parties, very large amounts, to engender their support. And these folks are doing pretty much that.

    This should undercut their message of being a grassroots organization, since he’s a wealthy man who’s highly placed in the US Chamber of Commerce. This should further undercut their message of demanding accountability from those in power, since he’s dodged his own. I’m not holding the Folk of the Leaf responsible for negligence which killed a bunch of miners. I am holding them to their own standards, which should demand that they ask him why he’s fighting the enforcement of safety regs. But, it’s not my party, and I have my reasons why it’s not.