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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.
Comments (685)
backed by 65%
they where not even listening to the crap comming out your mouth lady
an you an Obuma can take on the tea party, we kick the Dems out, we will do it again in 2012
an the Dems do not want to vote on another piece of crap bill, like they did with healthcare.
Herman Cain in 2012
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Fair Tax
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Gosh...I'm shocked!
I wonder what would happen if a Republican politician called a liberal person a Demoslut? Nevermind.......we already know being the hypocrits that you are!
9 9 9 & 9 0 9 = 45
last debate was in a 45,000 sq. foot room
Own your own perjoratives.
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No, he's fighting for his job, his pension, his sense of self-righteousness, his ideology, his party, and his puppet master.
PS- Ms Solis, the term "teabagger" is offensive. It was offensive when Anderson Cooper first used it, it is offensive still, it will never stop being offensive.
PPS- And no, contrary to Liberal-Left claims that "that's what they call themselves", NOBODY in the Tea Party has ever used "teabagger" self-referentially.
PPPS- If you're OK with vulgar terminology, Ms. Solis, then "FOAD".
P.S. "Being on your own", hey, isn’t that what an adult does.
She meant what she said, any apology now would be disingenuous.
President Obama exaggerates when he claims “independent economists” say his jobs bill “would create nearly 2 million jobs.” The median estimate in a survey of 34 economists showed 288,000 jobs could be saved or created over two years under the president’s plan.
The libs have to call their opponents names. It is built into their whole mindset.
They have to demean their opponents
For a group who considers themselves more intelligent than their opponents they show a really poor ability to communicate with anything approacing an intellgent argument.
They have to use name calling, guilt by innuendo, slander...
They are the epitome of the lower ability group trying to make themselve seem more able by tearing down those who would be able to show the weakness of their ideas if they could get a word in edgewise.
Pathetic.
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