Outgoing Labor Secretary Hilda Solis blames the Right and the Tea Party for hurting the economy, suggesting they never wanted to engage Obama despite olive branches he extended to them (h/t: SooperMexican):

Yes, in many ways we did not get the kind of support we needed originally when he took office for the American Recovery Act funds, we didn’t get the votes that were needed there. It’s been a hard line for him because we’ll make overtures to try and extend an olive branch to them and they seem to turn away. And even now as we go into these other fiscal debates there are many in the small group known as the Tea Party movement that just do not want to engage with the president at all. And really that’s unfair because you’re not just hurting the president, because that’s not the point here. You’re hurting the American public and our country and our economy and the future of our country.

Seems that I recall Obama telling Republicans “I won” back in 2009 when they were putting ideas on the table to grow the economy. Doesn’t sound like much of an olive branch to me. Truthfully, the only concessions he ever made was for his own reelection purposes and not to extend olive branches or to the Right or help the country. No, they ignored the economy to pass Obamacare and the Stimulus, adding 6 trillion to the debt in four years. And somehow she blames this on the Tea Party?

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118 comments
unionville
unionville

The Tea Party is the only sane voice speaking today. It isn't lack of "revenue", it's the spending that's the problem and until we reign it in, our economy is going to continue to stagnate. Why is this so difficult for the left to understand. Why is it so difficult for the American people to understand. We all have to live on a budget or we go under.

TimeForAnarchy
TimeForAnarchy

"Extend an olive branch?" Really............

As if the Terrorist Sympathizer is suddenly the big peace maker in DC.

Sure he is. An the moon is cheese.......

Sonnyjelly1
Sonnyjelly1

Another delusional liberal idiot heard from with some a--inine comment.

jleinf
jleinf

Delusional lying cowards

Conservator1
Conservator1

What caused the rise of the Tea Party? I think Scott Rasmussen got it right - the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and of course Obamacare.

Rasmussen: Tea Party Shows Weakness of GOP Establishment

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/ScottRasmussenReportspollster/2010/09/18/id/370770

Rasmussen told Newsmax.TV: “There’s a schism between the GOP establishment and GOP voters, just like throughout the country the big gap is between the political elite and mainstream voters.” And continued, "...The Bush and Obama administrations’ bank bailouts triggered the tea party’s rise, he says..."

Video:

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/ScottRasmussenReportspollster/2010/09/18/id/370770#ooid=lqN3hoNDrLeXg8SWq7zaPnGRWKAiErvE

Solis is just another leftist in the Obama administration that never accepts responsibility for their failures but are great at blaming conservatives for them - even when they controlled all 3 branches of government.

jrt1031
jrt1031

Who is this lady? Get her off the train please. She knows nothing

kong1967
kong1967

Obama made no effort to work with R's. It was his way or the highway, and still is. The stimulus failed and he blames R's because he didn't get enough money. They abused the money they got. Only 7% was put on an effort to create jobs. The rest was pork, handouts to unions and donors, and money thrown down the drain investing in green energy that they were WARNED was a failure before they spent the money.

You can't count money thrown at unions as "stimulus". That may be saving jobs, but wrongly so. The unions are driving states bankrupt because of excessive pay, benefits, and pensions. If you have a car that gets 2 miles to the gallon and no mechanic is willing to fix it (unions, politicians), you junk the car and get another model (business model in reference). Dems insist on demanding we keep pumping $5 a gallon gas into the car that gets 2 miles to the gallon instead of fixing the freaking car. Why? Millions of dollars in kickbacks. They give the unions billions of OUR dollars, then unions kick millions of it back during elections. It should be illegal.

Lol, I got sidetracked. Obama has never attempted to work with the Republican party. His proposals are absurd and are dead on arrival.

[フィル-さま]
[フィル-さま]

Why would I want to be engaged to Barack Obama? Who'd want to marry him. *hmph*

John
John

EVERY comment by MSM urinalists and presstitutes and other leftists is: "let's kick conservatism", and every legal action is squeezing us in the vise of new laws...

WhiteGuy2
WhiteGuy2

Another Obama tool ....She might as well just say its all white folks fault,...Tea Party/old whiteguys are to blame for everything past, present, and future. No one including Obama is ever to blame for anything.

bobbybstrd
bobbybstrd

She's a special kind of mentally challenged liar.

davienne
davienne

OH GOOD GREIF... THE mental patients are running the assylim...

Ray
Ray

She is an idiot. Obama's socialism is hurting the economy. Place blame where it is warranted.

pdxlady
pdxlady

This is the left's Alinsky M.O., "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." (Rule #13) The Tea Party is just the next target on their agenda to demonize and invalidate them.

Every time they open their mouths, they are manipulating the population with their propaganda. These people are not normal, they have been programmed to believe their own lies. They are like bots, there is no 'there' there in them; they only speak the Talking Points given to them. They are not rational nor can they be reasoned with.

Remember, if you repeat a lie often enough...classic Goebbels.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

'Remember, if you repeat a lie often enough...' - pdxlady

I heard that Obama plans to abdicate the throne and move to Libya...

I heard that Obama plans to abdicate the throne and move to Libya...

I heard that Obama...

NYGino
NYGino

Thanks Nukeman. I've officially changed my meditation mantra.

pdxlady
pdxlady

Yes, I believe I heard that. Must repeat... :D

aposematic
aposematic

Leftists are pure Evil, sold their souls. The Devil must be demanding they pay up!

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

Tea party is just another term for TAX PAYER. And that pinhead is right. I refused to sign over all of my money and possessions to the marxist to redistribute. From that perspective, the moron is exactly right.

jrt1031
jrt1031

Exactly. Just like all of obamas morons think that government controlled healthcare will guarantee good health

Constance
Constance

Blah, Blah, Blah...Tea Party... Blah, Blah, Blah....racists.... Blah, Blah, Blah....Obama....

This is all I hear now whenever some putz like this talks. Remember Charlie Brown's teacher's voice?

sjmom
sjmom

And these olive branches Obama extended were???? Higher health care costs, loss of religious liberty, higher taxes, more govt spending, etc. Obama started a war but we the people will finish it.

NYGino
NYGino

But mom, you've got to look on the bright side. Oh, wait, there is no bright side!

johnos2112
johnos2112

What part of fiscal responsibility, free markets to buy things you want, and govt not growing like a week do you not get? These people are complete a**holes! The Tea Party is trying to save this country from RINOs and liberal imbeciles!

marketcomp
marketcomp

Ok, well who told you to fabricate data in reporting the unemployment numbers, Hilda? Oh, not your boss, Obama, but the tea party! Really, you cannot be this stupid! You should go to JAIL for lying about the unemployment numbers and it is my hope that someday you will, Hilda!

LIBERTYUSA
LIBERTYUSA

...Hilda Solis , where can I get the KOOL AID you have obviously been drinking . I want to become a LOW INFORMATION DRONE OBAMA ZOMBIE as you are. Hilda the only way to take America back from this economic tragedy is to remove DEAR LEADER PART II and his MARXIST MINIONS by turning the tables over in the mid terms of 2014 or by a conscious REVOLT by all legal citizens as in a shut down of all economic activity ."(period)

notsofastthere
notsofastthere

Who are we to be more afraid of....Obama or a nation that voted him in for a second term?

Van Jones, Czars, Obamacare, outward hatred for opposing views, not working with congress, bashing our allies, Muslims in the State Department, leftist Supreme Court justices.

He's done it all in his first term. Now it's gun control of law abiding citizens - how obvious can he be.

Stehekin912
Stehekin912

What dismays me more is the Conservatives who (allegedly) did not vote and left us to these tender mercies. They knew better and still they sat down.

jrt1031
jrt1031

And don't you think that this machine running our taxes was able to control the outcome of his being given not earned a second term

mikeinidaho
mikeinidaho

Gee, whiz, Wally! I didn't know Bush was a member of the Tea Party! After all, everything that is wrong has always been Bush's fault! The communist-in-chief said so, so it must be right! Right, Wally?

Betsey_Ross
Betsey_Ross

It's a new year now. It's the Tea Party's turn to get blamed. Bush will be back in the limelight as a POS soon. Their stupidity is cyclical.

colliemum
colliemum

Of course she blames the Tea Party!

After all - they tried to 'hurt' her precious POS.

The more I read and hear what the POS' appointees have to say, the more I think it's not just LIV who are to blame - the LIS (low information secretaries) are as well.

Hmm - I think the POS is actually a LIP (low information Prez).

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

But history will only remember him as a short term blip.

colliemum
colliemum

LOL!

I saw what you did there!

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

I am humbled and quite flattered by the opinion of my ladies.

Thank you.

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

I am humbled and quite flattered by the opinions of my ladies.

Thank you, Ma'am.

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

I just believe that Sun Tsu knew of that which he wrote and practice his ideas as best as I can. Causing folks to underestimate you before an engagement is a quick and intelligent way to gain an advantage before contact is even made.

Hmmm, me thinks me thinks too much. LOL

colliemum
colliemum

Nonononono. No.

It ain't by accident: you're just very sparing with being smart and witty, so as to delight us and confuse the enemy.

;-)

MiketheMarine
MiketheMarine

I CAN be very smart and witty but it's usually an accident.

LOL

;-)