Sec. of Labor Elaine Chao gets her nails done while American economy burns
Matt Gunterman June 29th, 2008
Kudos to Jim for his excellent coverage of the protests outside the 2008 GOP Glorified White Trash Convention in Louisville last night that was attended by some 650 of the ever-shrinking number of people in the United States who are still drinking the GOP Kool-Aid. The event raised some $2-million.
So, by my rough calculation, it probably cost on the order $450 to get Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao’s nails done (see Jim’s video).
Workers in Kentucky struggle to fill up their gas tanks because gas is $4/gallon and inflation is rising.
Workers in Kentucky worry that they won’t have a job tomorrow because the second Bush recession promised to be even worse than the first.
Workers in Kentucky wonder if they’ll meet next month’s mortgage, while Wall Street fat cats get bailed out by Washington.
But does any of this worry Elaine Chao, wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) and George W. Bush’s Secretary of Labor?
We all know a girl’s gotta look pretty when she’s busy wrecking the American economy!
- Elaine Chao
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We all know what Elaine Chao thinks of the workers in the United States. She thinks that we stink.
http://www.jobdestruction.com/NewsArchive/2007-07-02%20Elaine%20Chao%20-%20American%20workers%20stink%20and%20have%20bad%20attitudes.htm
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/17/labor-secretary-american-workers-stink/
Getting one’s nail done will never cover up this type of arrogance. I think that it is funny that Chao immigrated here from Taiwan along with her parents in the early 1960s and this is what she thinks of the United States, her adolpted country. We should never forget what she has said about the United States and the people here. Many of us or ourfore fathers have come from other countries but we don’t make statements like this about the United States or the people here - but what would you expect from someone married to Mitch McConnell?
Gee, do you think Mitch is comptemplating his own future?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) acknowledged on CNN yesterday that he doesn’t believe Republicans have any shot at reclaiming the Senate majority this cycle. “We are not going to be back in the majority in the Senate next year,” McConnell said. “The numbers make that impossible.”
Do the Republicans really expect to win with stunts like this?:
Doctors blast senators for Medicare payment cuts…..
Doctors joined colleagues cross the US in blasting the U.S. Senate, which narrowly voted to sustain a 10.6 percent reduction in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.The American Medical Association, said the Senate had a clear-cut decision between voting to support the interest of the patients or the big insurance companies.
“The Senate Republicans decided to stay with the president and the big insurance companies,”
Senate Republicans blocked Democrats — for the second time — from passing a bill that would have erased the cut and provided doctors a small increase in their fees instead.The Senate fell one vote short of the 60 needed to pass the bill under expedited rules. All 50 Democrats present, as well as nine Republicans, backed the bill. Most Republicans opposed it, noting that the Bush administration had hinted at a veto.
After the vote, there was hyperbole on both sides. An angry Reid said Senate Republicans “have done what they thought is appropriate, and that is to wipe out Medicare as we know it today.” He chided Republicans for sticking with a lame-duck president with a 29 percent approval rating: “How in the world could anybody be afraid of him vetoing a bill?”
Dr. Nancy H. Nielsen, president of the American Medical Association, said has put the country “at the brink of a Medicare meltdown.”
“Seniors need continued access to the doctors they trust. It’s urgent that Congress make that happen,” the AMA said in ads taken out in Capitol Hill newspapers read by members of Congress and their aides.
One near-certainty was that lawmakers, not willing to face millions of angry seniors at the polls in November, will act quickly when they return to Washington the week of July 7 to reverse the fee cut and provide retroactive payments to doctors for losses they incur after July 1.
For the past 7.5 years, I’ve used the monthly jobs creation report on MSNBC and the associated blog to call George W Bush and dimwit US Labor Secretary Elain “taiwan sweat shops” Chao two of the biggest liars in US history.
Here’s the simple arithmetic. There is no way Bush tax cuts can supply jobs in the US, given the cheap labor pools available in India (English is the dominant language) and China. There is NO way. If you couldn’t figure that out on your own, too bad. If you got led by the nose by Roger Ailes, Fox CEO and right wing noise machine wingnut, Rush Limbaugh, drug addict, and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, then you need to step back and review arithmetic and common sense. It takes 100K-130K new jobs created in the US per month just to absorb new high school and college graduates into the US work force. Bush and Chao have rarely met that basic number.
Where is the outrage? Elaine Chao enjoys an almost complete media blackout. I read Investor Business Daily, and her name is never mentioned on page one in the jobs creation announcement, and yet on the editorial page, IBD wants to discuss Michelle Obama’s graduate school these. Any halfwit knows graduate school is a time of free inquiry; any halfwit, that is, except Karl Rove, college dropout, who has been booted and is now a talking head with an agenda.
If your job has been sent offshore, you’d better follow Elaine Chao and Alan Greenspan and their advice on “labor specialization”: Registered nurse, anesthetist, x-ray technician, sports medicine, physical therapist, respiratory therapist. You’ll pay your own tuition, of course, however you can. Try credit cards at usury interest rates.
The government releases whatever numbers it wants to, lies and all. The media is corporate owned. The talking heads are paid to read the government transcripts. While Elaine Chao chirps on the Wall Street Journal web site about unemployment at 5%; the Bureau and Labor Statistics web site contains Table A12 which shows that counting everyone who is not employed full time, the US unemployment rate is closer to 9.2% (and probably higher).
I lived in Kentucky when Mitch McConnell was the first US Senate candidate to use Roger Ailes to craft his television campaign ad against Dee Huddleston. My thought today is to sit back and watch Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh, drug addict, and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as they try to distance the Republican Party from George W. Bush.
Your bills should be sitting on Elaine Chao’s desk. Bury her desk. Let her hire the above and Phil Gramm to help open her mail. When she leaves office, send your bills to her at her lobbyist address (or Mitch’s). Let her walk the same side of the street that your family walks on.
That TW is not THIS TW, by the way!