Dec 19 2008
Obama’s Justice League
I am really excited about Obama’s pick for the head of the Labor Department - Hilda Solis. The daughter of two labor immigrants, she is a champion of woman’s issues, Latin issues, immigrant’s rights, worker’s rights, and there’s more, she has a great record with the environment. She supports a guaranteed health insurance system, cares about woman’s health issues, introduced The Green Jobs Act of 2007, supports Latinos. So where’s the catch? There isn’t one. I think she’s perfect. Some say Obama has sold out already - he did put off rolling back the Bush tax cuts. He’s been making quite an effort to appease the whining elephants with Republican cabinet picks. They aren’t the ones that voted for him by the way. Others say he is just appeasing the right so he can surprise us with his left-wing agenda later on. I think he’s being more transparent than anyone is giving him credit for. He’s balancing. I believe he’s trying to even out the scales of justice. Maybe he has this theory, that if everything is even, with no side having too much or too little, that that vision of the future, the one we’re all squinting our eyes to hold on to, might just work out. Maybe he understands, that with this country, everyone’s voice should matter. That no matter how humanist and open-minded you, and your followers may be, when you’re on top, you always leave somebody out. And that somebody is going to spend the next four years building his case against you. Even with Congresswoman Solis, he has balanced her with former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk for the US trade representative pick. Kirk is a huge proponent of free trade, a fundamental problem for Solis and the Labor unions. So will Obama’s theory work? With both Solis and Kirk in key positions, will everyone’s issues be addressed, is there a perfect compromise? Can Newton’s law of reciprocal actions be proven wrong? Or will nothing be accomplished. Will two equal and opposite forces be constantly fighting one another. 2008-12-19
