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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.
Comments (685)
Second, in one little speech, she berates the Tea Party, calling them a name that only leaves her looking very unprofessional, and then says, the president is fighting for you. All americans or just the unions? When you're the prez, you're supposed to speak of all americans, not divide the country way this guy has done. It's a cheap and tawdry re-election gamble.
Hilda Solis is one of many Odumbo Administration officials who need to be found face down in a dumpster.
No, the majority does not want Stimulus II. Most people know Stimulus I did not work and they want no more government meddling.
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That's strange, because Joe Biden announced that the point of the new stimulus was to protect government workers. He said the private sector could take care of itself but that government employees needed to be protected from layoffs, no matter how many tax dollars it took.
THERE ARE 7-12 MILLION JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES, AVAILABLE TO AMERICAN CITIZENS, CURRENTLY HELD BY ILLEGAL ALIENS!!
PUSH TO PASS E VERIFY, SEC SOLIS !!!
PUT AMERICAN CITIZENS TO WORK !!
Go to www.numbersusa.com AND HELP AMERICAN CITIZENS GET JOBS !!
The people at the tea party rallies are hard working honest people who want the federal government to know it's place and abide by the constituion. That's why you see a lot of tea party people supporting Herman Cain. Not because we have black guilt as the liberals will have you believe, but because he has the best ideas for minimizing this massive federal government we currently have. If the federal government would do what it was supposed to do per the constitution, we would have a surplus of tax revenue every year. Let the individual states take care of the rest.
The federal government was never intended to be so massive and expensive.
We are not republicans or democrats. We are conservatives. We disagree with rhino republicans as much as democrats.
Being a member of the tea party I'm get pissed off everyday because all of the lies floating around just to discredit us!!!
Go ahead and believe we are thru as a group...I beg you to! We are just getting started.
Do you really think you're fooling anyone? You've got OWS written all over your comments. Troll
Go find yourself a really tall ladder... haul your lazy carcass all the way up to the top... stretch as far as you can reach...
and kiss this grandma's grits!
During the Cold War, there was a saying "Better dead than Red".
It still applies.
so where are these 65%.. i certainly do not know any... but I have another percentage for you... and that's 65% want you out of office now!
But what is the reason for labor unions in the public sector? There are no "greedy capitalists" running the public sector, not in states like CA that a one party (Democratic) state.
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