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Carrying Water for Obama, Hilda Solis Picks a Fight with the Tea Party
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With the team behind President Barack Obama targeting the Sunshine State in their bid for a second term in 2012, the White House sent U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to speak to the Florida Democratic Convention on Saturday.
A day after Vice President Joe Biden told the convention at Walt Disney World that Obama needed to carry Florida to win in 2012, Solis attempted to rally Democrats for the elections and urged them to push for the Obama jobs plan which, with Republicans controlling the U.S. House, has no chance of passing Congress.
Speaking at a luncheon event on Saturday, Solis carried water for Obama, bashing Republicans and praising the administration’s economic policies.
Solis offered harsh words about conservatives. Looking at 2012, Solis slammed the tea party movement, calling them “teabaggers” and promising the Obama administration will take them on.
Combating the noise of a crowd often more concerned with holding their own conversations and eating their lunches than listening to her speech, Solis attempted to defend the Obama economic policies, praising the federal stimulus that the White House backed and the president’s job plan.
Solis claimed that the Obama job plan was backed by 65 percent of the American people and would “put 2 million people, especially construction workers, back to work.”
Besides attempting to sell the Obama jobs plan, Solis took aim at the Republicans. She attacked Republican Gov. Rick Scott’s labor policies, arguing that he is looking to take away collective bargaining and other rights from public-sector employees.
Solis accused Republicans in Florida and other states, including Ohio and Wisconsin, of “picking on” teachers, police officers and other government workers.
Blaming globalization and market changes for the decline of organized labor in the private sector, Solis conceded that government workers retained strong unions. “We’ve seen the movement in the labor house diminish in the private sector,” said Solis.
Solis urged the crowd to back Obama and his jobs plan.“You need to understand that this president is fighting for you,” she insisted.
When Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, the national unemployment rate stood at 7.6 percent. In September 2011, the national unemployment rate was 9.1 percent.
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A day after Vice President Joe Biden told the convention at Walt Disney World that Obama needed to carry Florida to win in 2012, Solis attempted to rally Democrats for the elections and urged them to push for the Obama jobs plan which, with Republicans controlling the U.S. House, has no chance of passing Congress.
Speaking at a luncheon event on Saturday, Solis carried water for Obama, bashing Republicans and praising the administration’s economic policies.
Solis offered harsh words about conservatives. Looking at 2012, Solis slammed the tea party movement, calling them “teabaggers” and promising the Obama administration will take them on.
Combating the noise of a crowd often more concerned with holding their own conversations and eating their lunches than listening to her speech, Solis attempted to defend the Obama economic policies, praising the federal stimulus that the White House backed and the president’s job plan.
Solis claimed that the Obama job plan was backed by 65 percent of the American people and would “put 2 million people, especially construction workers, back to work.”
Besides attempting to sell the Obama jobs plan, Solis took aim at the Republicans. She attacked Republican Gov. Rick Scott’s labor policies, arguing that he is looking to take away collective bargaining and other rights from public-sector employees.
Solis accused Republicans in Florida and other states, including Ohio and Wisconsin, of “picking on” teachers, police officers and other government workers.
Blaming globalization and market changes for the decline of organized labor in the private sector, Solis conceded that government workers retained strong unions. “We’ve seen the movement in the labor house diminish in the private sector,” said Solis.
Solis urged the crowd to back Obama and his jobs plan.“You need to understand that this president is fighting for you,” she insisted.
When Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, the national unemployment rate stood at 7.6 percent. In September 2011, the national unemployment rate was 9.1 percent.
Reach Kevin Derby at kderby@sunshinestatenews.com or at (850) 727-0859.
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Can we get any leftist useful idiot/political activist in the Washington/New York/American press corps to ask Solis why she is calling those in the tea party fundamentalist homosexualists who practice a certain sexual act? Does she hate fundamentalist homosexualists who practice those sexual acts?
I mean, I get "Fleabag" because those guys are covered in fleas, but "teabagger"? Also...haven't they (the media, democrats,...) at least noticed SOME difference between the way the fleabags act and the Tea PArty acted? Ummmmm...anybody see ANY difference at all? Tea PArty assembled, there were no rapes, no fights with the police, no tear gas, no defacting on public property, no chanting slurs, no demands for food, shelter, blankets or anything else "expected" to be supplied from the government. Nope...no difference at all.
I like unity...I hate diversity.
Can we please grow up?
Don't you have to at least graduate junior high to be the US Labor Secretary? Apparently not.
"Solis claimed that the Obama job plan was backed by 65 percent of the American people and would “put 2 million people, especially construction workers, back to work.”"
Put 2 Million Construction workers, back to work? (Twilights of
Fannie and Freddie, again folks).
Doing what, building houses? No one is buying new homes.
Building Shopping Malls? Malls are going out of Business.
All of those in Washington have been at Ground Zero at allowing
events to occur that have aided in the Destruction of
The United States of America.
Our Founding Fathers would have called them Traitors at best.
And I am referring to both sides of the spin pig path.
Paying for anything that one gets Zero in return, or in this case, “Less”
for ones investment is called, "Welfare".
An Economy is like a swimming pool, once it turns "Green"
and pun intended it is Damn hard to turn it around.
Has anyone taken a moment of their time to wonder why the US Government
is paying interest on it’s own Money to Private Banks. And just in case
you are wondering what Private Banks those would be the Federal Reverse.
This is not a Government Agency but a group of Private Banks, i.e. bankers.
We use to print our own money prior to 1913 and the Federal Reserve Act.
So why are we paying interest on something we supposedly we own?
Just a Thought.
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Perhaps Hilda Solis should was referring to him?
Has anyone realized that UNEMPLOYMENT IS ALWAYS HIGHER under Democrats!!
Which STATES have the HIGHEST unemployment in the US!! Harry Reids Nevada and Pelosi's California!!!
WHY, YOU MAY ASK???
Because once people GET JOBS and PAY TAXES, they BECOME REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and democrats wouldn't want that!!!!!!!!!
White Americans, repeat after me: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but silly names will never hurt me.
IT SHOULD READ, "...with Democrats controlling the Senate, has no chance of passing Congress."
Then it is the left that is being teabagged!
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