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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.
Reach Kevin Derby at kderby@sunshinestatenews.com or at (850) 727-0859.
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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and Michelle will be the pooper scooper...
" It isn't a lie, if you believe it's true ".
Keep drinking your Kool Aid, obama folks....see if he carries more than 2-3 states.
Good. That's why we hired him.
As was shown in the 2010 mid-terms, the path to sanity is clear. Rid this house o the spending vipers and the redolent thinkers and get true solutions to welfare waste, medical nobamacare waste and joblessness. This administration has NOT A Clue as to solutions that are clear to any true thinker.
VOTE THESE IDIOTS OUT IN 2012 AND RETURN THE UNITED STATES TO GLORY.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/30/conseratives-brought-na...
Of course she won't be fired. And the MSM will barely report it or ignore it completely, instead of seeing it as a "macaca" moment.
Get a life Kids and do the job you are well paid for or get out, it's not as if you don't have enough staff or maybe too many interns.
I for one will not be sated with the mere removal of Obama and his fellow communists/socialists/Marxists at the ballot box, as I want them…..every last one of them indicted, charged and tried for ‘TREASON/SEDITION and or CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, and or CRIMES AGINST AMERICA”. Let us never forget that America alone, shoulders the totality of the dreams and hopes of the world and the current administration and his legion of leftist lemming followers in the House, Senate and media, have forever damaged the concept of “HOPE”.
I do however agree that we require “change” in this country. But not the type of “change” Obama or what ever his 33 aliases are known as, want.
No, the “CHANGE” I speak of, is about is rounding up all of these frauds and charge them individually, both criminally and civilly. If found guilty of “crimes against America, treason and or sedition“, give them life sentences or death. I would include those that took the money and those that were enriched by it, as well as those that teach, instruct and champion the ideals and ideology of the communists/socialists/Marxist agenda.
But we should not stop there. I want the American taxpayers to be repatriated with the money and futures that this gang of thieves have stolen, thus, if found guilty, take their homes, cars, boats, furniture, their savings, bonds, stocks, retirement funds, pensions and even their social security and medicare. Strip them of every ounce of wealth and well being and no, I will not be made ashamed of taking from their family or even their children. They certainly didn’t worry about us, our families or children, now did they?
it always makes me laugh when libs call us tea baggers
because if we are the tea baggers....i guess that makes them the tea baggees
judging from the butt kicking we gave them last election...i guess they should be prepared to gag on the next election too
can refer to her as a Bi*ch
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