U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, it has been said, is obviously fucking the senior Senator from the State of Kentucky, Republican Mitch McConnell, who is also the Senate Whip. Ordinarily, this would raise eyebrows, and cause for alarm, with it's potential for conflict of interest, which would seem to be so apparrent. Of course, Ms. Chao and Mr. McConnel are married, so people tend to gloss over the apparrent potential.
But one person who has probably given it a great deal of thought recently is Ellen Smith, the owner and editor of Mine Safety and Health News. She would have a right to raise her concerns. In fact, Ms. Smith has been blackballed from press briefings and denied access to government officials. Elaine Chaos labor Department has in fact gone to great lengths to lock up public information pertaining to mine safety enforcement in general. It has, to be even more specific, locked out long sections of the Inspector Generals report on the recent Martin Conty coal waste spill.
Maybe Ms. Smith should file a lawsuit under the Freedom Of Information Act. Wait a minute, I think she has. Well, let's all wish her luck. The miners whose livelihoods are threatened should they blow the whistle, and whose health is threatened every day, would be well served by her dedicaton to mine the truth from the shafts of denial. For the good of the environment, in additon, which is threatened by the mine owners and operators who have been evidently given the green light under the Bush administraton as represented in this instance by Ms. Chaos-wife of Senator McConnell- and her tenure at the Labor Department for now a second Bush term.
The same old story. Greed and corruption at the expense of workers and their families , the environment, and the general public. All held hostage to the threat of lost jobs and increased energy costs. There ought to be a law.
But until such time, hey Mitch, do me a favor, bend that old lady of yours over, and stick the old cock-a-roo up the old poop chute for me, Goddess knows I would love to, but hey, you go ahead, be my guest, I bet that's a nice tight ass. While you're up there though, better put on that mining helmet, you know, the one that's got the little light on top that you need in case you get up there too far and end up getting lost. Shit, you would know then how a miner really feels.
And, uh, well, Elaine, so would you.
