Via Instapundit, John Merline at TCS rounds up the various news stories and editorials that attempted to lay blame for the Sago mining disaster at the feet of President Bush. He finds that fatal mining injuries have declined every year since Bush took office:

The graph indicates that mine safety hasn’t markedly declined under the Bush presidency. No matter. The NY Times’ editorial board has already moved on from mining safety to emergency preparedness, now claiming that “a plan begun a decade ago to upgrade the mine rescue program was quietly scuttled by the Bush administration.” It’s the same playbook they used after Hurricane Katrina: When one accusation doesn’t pan out, find another way to blame Bush for the tragedy.