In addition to the desire to abolish the Electoral College, delusional Democrats continue to drown in the fact that President-elect Donald Trump won a landslide victory and has a leadership mandate when he takes office on January 20, 2025. So they’re throwing things at the wall: from selling border wall materials to trying to bring in activist judges to trying to find ways to extend the shelf life of Biden’s impoverished workforce. The latest stupid game: getting incumbent Labor Secretary Julie Su confirmed by the Senate so she can hold the title of Labor Secretary.
You can’t do it this stuff.
President Biden joined labor representatives at the U.S. Department of Labor this week to designate a up-to-date national monument honoring FDR’s longtime labor secretary, Frances Perkins, who famously instituted the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, a ban on child labor protections and countless other protective measures.
The rally was also an opportunity for the labor community to celebrate another of its vocal advocates: Biden’s acting Labor Secretary Julie Su.
Her version of celebration is our version of rewarding failure, and nothing embodies that word like Julie Su’s career.
And yet Su’s legacy will likely be marked with an asterisk. Because despite all the labor victories the Biden administration can claim, confirming Su as labor secretary is not one of them.
“[She] has led the Department of Labor in a way that Secretary Perkins would be damn proud of,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in her introduction to Su. “She has taken the fight to anyone who tries to exploit working people.” She has stood by our unions. She has made DOL a true home of work.”
We have well documented in these pages not only the damage left by Julie Su as California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s labor secretary, but also her incompetence as a placeholder at the U.S. Department of Defense. Her nomination was a bone of contention from day one, and the Senate ultimately refused to confirm her. But sycophantic stooges like AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler are playing the woman card (suddenly they know what that is) as the reason Su couldn’t get confirmation.
“It should have happened two years ago,” Shuler said in an interview, adding that Su, like her predecessor Perkins, was something of an unsung hero.
Unsung hero? More like an unsung zero.
“This is often why women leaders end up in our history books – that their work often takes place behind the scenes. She is not recognized and valued as much as she should be.”
Oh, we fully acknowledged their work, which wasn’t behind the scenes at all. Su constantly criticized congressional oversight, not to mention tiny businesses and independent professionals. She had plenty of time to run to every union-focused rally and event and sit at the table to listen to their concerns while ignoring the cries of 64 million independent professionals and dodging subpoenas from oversight committees.
But even now, as the Biden era comes to an end, Su’s most committed supporters on Capitol Hill have not given up.
“I am doing everything I can to confirm Julie Su as Secretary of Labor before President Biden leaves office,” Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth wrote in a statement to NPR. “It would be a long overdue recognition of the incredible work she has done for years – without the title she so obviously deserves.”
What Su deserves is prison for defrauding California taxpayers of $36 billion.
