The regulation-skirting former CEO of Massey Energy (now re-branded as Alpha Natural Resources) Don Blankenship — who is somehow not currently in a jail cell for being criminally negligent in the worst mining accident of the last 40 years — is getting back into the coal business.

And what better state for a coal baron looking to avoid EPA and MSHA regulations than the commonwealth of Kentucky, where both political parties and the governor have no qualms about shouting at those federal regulatory busybodies to get off your backs?

As The Courier-Journal reported last night, Rep. George Miller (D-CA) broke the wonderful news to Kentuckians last night in a fiery speech on the House floor, highlighting the huge judgement against Massey this week and the severe injustice that Don Blankenship is opening up yet another coal business in Kentucky, along with his $85 million golden parachute from Massey. Here is the speech:

Get off our backs, Rep. Miller. Get.. off… our… backs!

No word yet on whether Blankenship has already received the welcome wagon from the likes of Beshear, Stumbo, Williams, Lee, Thayer, Adkins and… well, most of Frankfort. If not — as federal investigators say they may still hand down criminal indictments — the paddy wagon may get to him first.