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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)
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.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and other Obama-bots are going around the country trying to convince Democrats and anybody who'll listen, that four more years of Obama's failed economic, domestic, and foreign policies will be a good thing and to reelect Obama and his failed administration - so they'll have four more years to continue destroying the economy and many would say the entire country as well. Hopefully the American people will see through the "smoke screen" and kick Obama and progressive cronies to the curb on November 6, 2012. If you care about your country and your family that is. If those two things don't mean diddly to you then go ahead and vote for Obama again. What is that old adage again? Fool me once...?
intention of engaging in mature, adult discussion of the issue. She knows it is a sexually explicit term and in her attempt to defame the Tea Party, she only shows her ignorance and partisanship. She is an embarassment to the WH, but the medis tries to prop her up by reporting on her speach. The story was not worth the effort to publish it.
talktosolis@dol.gov
Secretary Solis,
I'm writing to register my disgust that a United States Cabinet Secretary would stoop to crude street-level sexual language to defame millions of her fellow Americans, people who also happen to be "laboring" for the success of this nation and whom you ostensibly represent. I read with sadness today a report that says you referred to millions of your fellow citizens as "teabaggers."
You might not agree with the aims of the Tea Party, but your choice of words to describe them is inexcusable. You are not Bill Maher, Keith Olberman or Janeane Garofalo, who all seem to revel in usage of the term. You were appointed by our President, confirmed by our Senate and took an oath to uphold the Constitution and represent the interests of ALL American citizens, not to be a crude political hack.
I have never written to a public official before, but I felt compelled to
register my disgust with your actions. I am not a Tea Party member (and don't know if there is even a formal way to join), but I would remind you that among the ranks of those who call themselves Tea Party members are veterans who have bled for you and all Americans, grandmothers who are certainly worthy of your respect, and others from all walks of life in this great nation.
I read your biography on the DOL website and you are rightfully proud of authoring seventeen anti domestic violence laws in California. I wonder how many of the domestic violence victims who were raped by their own spouses or domestic partners were also subjected to "teabagging" during their ordeal. They probably would not appreciate your lighthearted use of this sickening term.
On behalf of all American citizens who have not yet lost their sense of
propriety, decency and civic duty, I am requesting that you offer a public and formal apology and that you do the honorable thing and resign. You have tarnished the office to which you have been entrusted and do not deserve to claim the title of United States Cabinet Secretary.
My people expect a little more class from someone in the cabinet. (and would feel the same regardless of political party)
Gee, what a surprise.
Obama = Bush (the worst president in history)
The use of bagged instead of Party is a deliberate attempt to disparage fine American citizens that simply disagree with the way out of this mess that croney capitalism has caused.
Despite the fact Obama has never proposed changing current laws that deny federal employees the ability to collectively bargain = “You need to understand that this president is fighting for you,”
LMAO
Despite the fact Obama has never proposed changing current laws that deny federal employees the ability to collectively bargain = “You need to understand that this president is fighting for you,”
LMAO
Send her a love letter. Copy in the Imam and make him force her arse to apologize. She is a paid servant working for the Taxpayers. ALL of the taxpayers, not just the Libs.
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