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Hilda Solis
HILDA SOLIS....Rick Warren may have left a bad taste in the leftosphere's mouth, but we're all thrilled with his choice of Rep. Hilda Solis as Labor Secretary. Here's Jonathan Stein:
Quit yur bellyaching! Obama's pick for Secretary of Labor is reportedly California Rep. Hilda Solis, the proud daughter of a union mom and union dad. In addition to a background as a management analyst at the Office of Management and Budget and a 100 percent rating from the AFL-CIO in 2007, Solis brings a reputation as one of Washington's leading proponents of green jobs....If you were to sketch an ideal Labor Secretary, you could hardly do much better.
Solis sounds great, and her one-minute tribute to the Employee Free Choice Act (above) is terrific. If I have any cautionary note to add, though, it's this: what did you expect? Of all the senior-level appointments Obama had to make, this was the only one that was virtually assured from the beginning of being a gift to the left. And it was. So I wouldn't take this as any slam dunk indication of how seriously he's going to take labor issues.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not trying to throw cold water on Obama's choice of Solis. It's just that his overall cabinet picks have been mainstream enough that it's probably not wise to take anything big away from any one of them. Hopefully Solis will help prod Obama to appoint some good NLRB members and put some serious political capital behind the push for passage of EFCA, and that's what I'll be watching for. A labor-friendly pick for Secretary of Labor is just a start.
Rick Warren may have left a bad taste in the leftosphere's mouth, but we're all thrilled with his choice of Rep. Hilda Solis as Labor Secretary.
I really don't care who Rick Warren picks as his choice of Labor Secretary.
To your first assertion, I am a liberal who doesn't have an issue with Obama's pick of Warren. I do not like the preacher's politics nor sub scribe to his theology, but what the hell, Obama likes him personally and it is Barak's show.
Politicians tend to use religious leaders as hood ornaments, so Warren needs to guard against feeling too special. Many Presidents used Billy Graham without acting any too Christ-like in their public or private decisions. But hey, if you are going to break Jesus injunction to "pray in a closet" you might as well get a marquee name to do the deed.
Actually wouldn't the GBLTs (hungry...) be made that it's not openly homosexual Maxwell?
MDPundit -- Why would the GLBTs be mad when we have an openly lesbian EPA pick?
The lefty transit, planning and urbanists activists are pissed about the DOT choice. So there's still that to grumble about.
Personally, I'm really happy about all the direction that things are going in (and good give 2 sh*ts about Warren).
And frankly, I'm glad he's not catering to every special interest group. Don't like that politics when its a Republican in office. Don't want it when its a Dem either.
I hope that Solis could at a minimum undo all the negatives from the past 8 years of union busting.
"Mainsteam" people, if you look at the Reagan-Dubya time period, are the ones who got us into this mess.
It may be surprising, but we really do need our Democracy to be somewhat democratic and that means including people of various skin colors, gender and other things like Liberals/Progressives. To leave them out is to NOT have the benefit of their perspective on life in America.
"her one-minute tribute to the Employee Free Choice Act (above) is terrific."
why? sure, it's a paean to unions. but it says nothing about the act or what it would do. This is exhortation, not argument, as if the grounds for voting for a bill were to simply ally yourself with some symbolic good that you like. You, the policy wonk supreme, are better than that...
lc
Appointing Solis is a sop to the scums behind SEIU and the AFLCIO but despite that BO knows that EFCA has as much chance of happening as GM and Chrysler surviving past this decade. EFCA will be shot to ribbons by the Supreme court and the President-elect can come out smelling like a rose by blaming the far right in the Supreme Court for its failure.
Really, is she qualified? Has she ever managed anything? I know the anwer and it is no. The sec of labor is going to have to standup to the unions. She won't. She'll be the first to go.