Obama's latest Cabinet pick, another installment of his left-of-left agenda

Apparently President-elect Barack Obama has heard the complaints from radical left-wing supporters that his Cabinet appointments to date have been too conservative. According to several reports, Mr. Obama has tapped Big-Labor lackey Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) as Secretary of the Department of Labor.

Since 2000, Hilda Solis has represented a safe Democrat district which includes heavily Hispanic East Los Angeles and stretches east to the San Gabriel Valley. She was born in 1957 and is the daughter of a Teamsters Union shop steward. In 1980 she worked in the Carter administration’s Office of Hispanic Affairs. She returned to Los Angeles in 1981 and climbed the political ladder from community college trustee to politically appointed Los Angeles County Insurance Commissioner. In 1992 she was elected to the state legislature and then to the state Senate two years later.

In 2000, she made her way to Congress with the support of organized labor, the radical feminist fundraising group EMILY’s List, the Sierra Club, leftwing Senator Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.

Congresswoman Solis is an officer of the radical Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. According to the leftwing Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), Solis votes with the left 100 percent of the time.

Solis received a big ole 00.00% on the Alliance for Worker Freedom's scorecard. Shocker?!?

Among Solis’ biggest campaign contributors are labor union, including the Teamsters, the leftwing Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Laborers’ International Union of North America, which has historical ties to organized crime. Nearly 60 percent of her Political Action Committee donations come from organized labor.

Sounds like the perfect person to lead the Labor Department in balancing the interests of employers, rank-and-file-workers and unions, right? With a puppet like this, Mr. Obama might have dispensed with the charades and just appointed SEIU president Andy Stern to the job . . . but Stern would never take the pay cut.