If you were to search Google News this morning for the word “vetting”, you’d find well over 1500 hits in relation to that word and the Van Jones story. The current meme is that Jones was not sufficiently vetted by the Obama administration – that his shortcomings and controversial positions were not exposed, primarily because he was an appointed “czar” with no Congressional approval or oversight.
Earlier today, Erick asked “Who created this special job for Van Jones and what vetting of any sort did he get?” The implication, of course, is that Jones was not vetted. But is that true?
Over at The Corner at NRO, Andy McCarthy has a different take – one that I believe is quite accurate. McCarthy asserts that Jones was chosen precisely because of his controversial background. He says:
The point, of course, is that Obama vetted Jones just fine. President Obama is not Mr. Magoo — haplessly gravitating to Truther Van and Ayers and Dohrn and Klonsky and Davis and Wright and the Chicago New Party and ACORN, etc. Jones is a kindred spirit. Obama knows exactly who he is. Jones was given a non-confirmation job precisely because that circumvented the vetting process. This isn’t one of those things that just happen. This is Barack “Transparency” Obama gaming the system.
A “kindred spirit”. The two have the same kinds of backgrounds. They were both community organizers of some ilk. It only makes sense that Obama would seek someone with the same background to pursue one of his pet policies – “green jobs.”
McCarthy also points out that the White House had to be familiar with Jones’ background, or he wouldn’t have been given access to the WH in the first place.
As former Reagan staffer Jeffrey Lord explains at the Spectator, the Secret Service carefully scrutinizes the background of everyone who works at the White House. With his background, Van Jones couldn’t possibly have gotten into the White House, much less had physical access to the president, unless the top echelon of the administration (I’d wager, the very top) overrode any objections.
There is some possibility that the Secret Service simply fell down on the job and neglected to check out Jones sufficiently. There’s a chance that the Secret Service is in dire need of LMGTFY. But the higher likelihood is that the Obama staff simply told them to give him a pass.
In the aftermath of the Jones story, conservatives are no doubt emboldened to go after more of Obama’s czars, with the expectation that they, too, are “under-vetted.” Indeed, there are several who appear to have questionable backgrounds – from our perspective. But do they from Obama’s perspective?
In a wonderfully biting article on the UK Telegraph web site, James Delingpole points out that Jones’ mistake was trying to hide his agenda. He notes that appointing guys like Van Jones is “what socialist regimes do.”
Simple. Because this is what socialist regimes do, as I tried to explain earlier this year in my book Welcome To Obamaland: I’ve Seen Your Future And It Doesn’t Work.
In it, I warned the US of the “smorgasbord of scuzzballs, incompetents, time servers, Communists, class warriors, eco-loons, single-issue rabble-rousers, malcontents and losers who always rise to the surface during a left-liberal administration.”
It’s a pattern. Delingpole describes how the same kind of whack-job appointments occurred under the Blair administration:
Making these predictions was a no-brainer because it’s exactly the same process as we’ve witnessed in Britain these last twelve years under New Labour. Rather than having all his cronies go through the tedious and unedifying process of having to stand for parliamentary election, Tony Blair simply handed them their political jobs on a plate by appointing them Health Czar, or Race Czar, or Climate Change Czar or whatever. In this way, he could stuff his new governing class with politically-sympathetic placemen – with the added advantage that they were completely unaccountable to the democratic process.
Sound familiar?
This was not a mistake by Obama. The appointments of Jones, Mark Lloyd, and other “Czars of the Obama Underworld” were quite intentional. While some will simply write off these extremists as mistakes, they underestimate Obama. As McCarthy says, “he is not Mr. Magoo.” Rather, he is a socialist ideologue who has a mission to transform America into a weath-redistributing, big-government nanny state – and has built the team (without oversight that would expose their backgrounds and ideology) that he believes can help him accomplish that objective.
Moe Lane
Dan Spencer
Steve Maley
Caleb Howe
old saying, new twist: Throwing Radicals at the Wall to see which ones stick
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 12:37PM EDT (link)Either way, the ObamaBinBiden admin WINS… If they stick (read: stay) they are free w/o Congressional approval/oversight to do the Radical agenda bidding… If they don’t, then the Race-baiting, ultra-Partisan excuses, etc, all get tossed out to keep the Uber-Blind Loyalty of the ObamaZombies continued to be held mesmerized by the MSM propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.
Addl Comment pieces from me from elsewhere:
summing up Van Jones
… and….
and then on the 5th (streiff’s Diary)
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Let's go after a white radical next
Change Jar Conservative (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:21PM EDT (link)just so that’s it’s clear that it wasn’t a racist thing.
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we have to keep going at/after ALL the Obamunist Radicals
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:29PM EDT (link)it is only through repetition and maybe the 100th time that it may start to sink in to the Politically Brain-dead – that hey, there really was/is a pattern of bad-associations there — that we’ve pointed out since the ’08 Campaign started and continues just as we TOLD THEM SO and they ignored (and still try to ignore now). As I pointed out elsewhere, though many don’t care because the actually WANT Radical Communists/Socialists “fundamentally reshaping America” as the Obamunist promised.
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Yes, the MSM might start going after the Czars
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:05PM EDT (link)after they see what great ratings Beck is getting!!
LOL
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
The MSM is more likely to go after the people who go after the czars.
Achance (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:13PM EDT (link)The MSM IS the Comrade Obama Administration.
In Vino Veritas
No doubt - No doubt
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:16PM EDT (link)I wonder how much of the stimulus money is being funneled to GE (NBC) & Disney (ABC)?
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
What if loggers ran the MSM?
GregInFla (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 11:28PM EDT (link)Sorry, just saw a Nextel commercial on loggers running divorce court, and combined it with this thread, and had some really nice thoughts.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
Gamecock implores Elected Repubs and our conservative Press to render verdicts and raising new questions
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 10:57PM EDT (link)I think a lot of elected repubs deny the obvious import of events and facts already in evidence, waiting and hoing that the MSM will finally render the verdict they know is true for fear that the media will kill their re-election chances.
Obama’s retractions etc despite MSM support and despite MSM blackouts of news unfavorable to him show that he can be rolled regardless (as if Reagan and Bush’s re-elections didn’t already)
http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/09/07/retractions-resignat/
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Easy Target #2…
ntrepid (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 11:06PM EDT (link)Browner, Carol M.
(See: http://www.redstate.com/ntrepid/2008/12/21/slouching-towards-change%e2%80%a6and-the-american-politburo-being-assembled-to-make-sure-we-get-there/)
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Out: Commie Truther green jobs czar. In: Union hack “manufacturing” czar
izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, September 8th at 9:27PM EDT (link)Out: Commie Truther green jobs czar. In: Union hack “manufacturing” czar
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/08/out-commie-truther-green-jobs-czar-in-union-hack-manufacturing-czar/
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
Dead right, bs
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 12:57PM EDT (link)We know him by the company he keeps. And yes, birds of a feather do flock together. I’ve been wondering whether part of the ploy of this overwhelming quantity of czars isn’t in order to add a protective layer around The One so that criticism can be deflected from him in just these types of incidents. If one or three or five get exposed for their radical communist background, there are still twenty or twenty-five left to do the dirty work of destroying our society.
And I see now that I finished typing,,JLeanard makes my same point above, i.e., “throwing radicals at the wall to see which ones stick.”
The so-called green czar that was, had become the face of the Obama administration. It is for that he was thrown under the bus before any more of the voting public became aware of who they elected as president.
Given Obama's past statements and Jarrett's statement that they followed Van a long time, we must not dignify this vetting diversion
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:06PM EDT (link)we have the answers and what we need to do, ie ELECTED REPUBLICANS, is dare to revisit Obama’s own past associations and statements. Obama is so sorry he can’t be tainted by Van Jones.
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another piece in the "Overwhelm the System" technique/tactic....
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:22PM EDT (link)They feel they (and seemingly do) get a WIN regardless, if for noting more than Distractions, or by which those that “Stick” as some will sneak past while the “distraction” is on another, getting as many Radicals on the Public Roles/Rolls (both ways), etc….
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kingO knew nothing of VJ's past, like he knew
Lynda Monday, September 7th at 4:14PM EDT (link)nothing of what the irreverent Wright was preaching for over 20 years!!
kingO considers himself to be the most intelligent and articulate human on the planet and certainly has an agenda that is still yet to be seen. Why else would he surround himself with such an assortment of leftists, communists and out and out criminals? To say that ‘birds of a feather….” is an absolute. But what can be done about it? For so many years Americans have been spoon fed a socialist ideology that makes a person feel guilty if they don’t empty their wallets for the guy on the street corner with the cardboard sign, “will work for food”. Those of us who have worked, saved, spent carefully, lived within our means and did give to our churches and charities are being dealt a very bad hand and the dealer is kingO. He is working against Americans just as efficiently as an experienced blackjack dealer works a table in Vegas!! He is not afraid of a little resistance. And much like Chinggis Khan, who with his hordes of Mongol warriors would attack from all sides, kingO is doing the same thing. He is throwing so much at the American people all at once that their resolve to stand against his socialist move is weakened because they don’t know what to do first. I have repeated sent out a contact list for all those in Congress and I tell my friends to send emails, call and even write a real letter to those mutts and tell them that O’s plans are not acceptable. And it seems like every day kingO comes out with something else to be concerned about. I am certain he is quite good at a bait and switch.
People who are working, raising their kids, trying to get thru this mess without losing their job or home just feel overwhelmed…..I guess we need a plan….
I heard David Horowitz way that he believed that kingO is the “chosen one” and his “czars” each have a specific role to play in his scheme. Which BTW, has likely been in the making for a very long time, perhaps even to the days of kingO’s days at Columbia.
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I love the other "it was a smear campaign" BS... lol
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:07PM EDT (link)It is just like in the Healthcare debate (HC Townhall: Like Hollywood, Democrats used new Actors to replay the same Script.) somehow it is a “SMEAR” to point out verifiable FACTS!!!! This, but it was in his PAST also is laughable… While they attempt to attack (forget who, someone can remind us and I’m just gonna be lazy and not look it up right now) a Republican for a Thesis from 20 years ago… what that clown has said 20 minutes ago is supposedly not pertinent…. 20 Minutes ago versus 20 Years ago…. Too funny!!!!
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What I noticed about this unfolding
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:16PM EDT (link)is that for people who at least get the minimum amount of news, the first thing they ever hear about Jones is that he was outed for being a truther and for not saying nice things about Republicans. Doesn’t that make Obama even more of a hero to the cultists? The spin was concocted to not only fuel the coverup, but to put a shinier gloss on The One’s halo. LOL!
But That Doesn't Help Him With Independents
IJB Monday, September 7th at 1:29PM EDT (link)Yeah, a side-effect of this whole thing may be that it may boost Slobama’s standing among the ‘nutter class’ for having Van around in the first palce.
But, let’s face it – what the nutter class really wants is legislation passed, and having had Van Johnson in there, isn’t going to make up for Obama’s lack of Leftie accomplishments.
And there’s still the fact that Slobama threw Van under the bus, rather than defend him from “baseless attacks from the Right-Wing crazies” (come on – you know there are already diaries on DKos spouting that line!). Ultimately, this doesn’t help Barry with his Base.
The nutters are about to turn on him for a variety of reasons.
Meanwhile, Van Johnson’s hyper-partisanship and Troofer nuttiness does nothing but turn Independents *right off*, and increases their doubts about Obama.
And, finally, the Right is emboldened – it’s another scalp to add to our growing collection.
Bottom line: This whole affair fails to help Obama in anyway.
The incident does not help Obama, true.
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:44PM EDT (link)I did, however find it funny that the lamestream found it necessary to put forward only those problems with Jones which highlighted his hero status with the ignorant class, (hatebush and republicans are A….) Not one peep about black against white racism or communism. Even in this gigantic Obama fail moment the pseudojournalists must pretend that Jones was a sacrifice to the tender feelings of Bush-loving, evil Republicans. Pretty pathetic and desperate. How much longer that crap will work will be seen along about 2010.
Van Johnson, is that who the vetters checked out ;nt)
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:10PM EDT (link)Click to see full size image
Could Be! Heh heh heh...
IJB Monday, September 7th at 2:41PM EDT (link)“Van Johnson”. “Van Jones”. What’s the diff?!
How do I get Obama's crew to Vette me?
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:50PM EDT (link)It should be so much easier for them to give me one now they own GM
lol
You folks know I can’t pass on the lame joke.
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“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
potential TobyToon visual
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:16PM EDT (link)When you mentioned my “Throwing Radicals at the Wall to see Who Sticks” comment, that as a caption for the following visual came to mind lol:
Those Velcro Walls where kids put on the Velcro suit and bounce up to try and stick to the wall … lol… but the kids faces would, of course, be replaced with Obama Radicals
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“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Can't you just see Glen Beck in a split
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:21PM EDT (link)frame, taking the velcro off the radicals’ clothing and replacing it with WD40?
Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, all...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:40PM EDT (link)… pouring from 5 Gal. cans Grease, WD40, (ficticious) Velcro-remover, down the Wall from the top
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Thanks, and the wall might even be "The Wall"
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:53PM EDT (link)The radical commies would be sliding down, down, down…Down into….. well, let’s just say down into a very uncomfortable place to be. Maybe Glen Beck should have a copy of Inferno on the ground next to him
now we just need to convince Toby to mock this up (nt)
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:03PM EDT (link)Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
Follow @JLenardDetroit
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Who needs to cite A McCarthy when GC already said that earlier at RS?
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:01PM EDT (link)http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Atlanta-Law–Politics-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Truther-Jones-didnt-hang-with-Wright-and-Ayers-Obama-did
Let’s vet Obama.
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Well...
Bill S (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:08PM EDT (link)a) that’s not exactly what you said.
b) That’s not Redstate.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Valerie Jarrett answered the vetting question and I have argued for years against the GOP falling into the "questions raised" MSM trap that gives liberals a chance to come up with better lies
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 1:14PM EDT (link)and here is the RS link
http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/09/03/compared-to-czar-obama-green-jobs-czar-truther-is-a-patriotic-trooper/
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This difference for now is...
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:00PM EDT (link)There are still enough people awake in the U.S. to see what he’s doing and fight against it. The folks in Europe long ago either drank the kool-aid, or gave up fighting against it.
“Baseball fits America well because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.” ― Major League Commissioner of Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti
incidents = coffee
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:10PM EDT (link)they need lots of coffee
— but, yes, alas, some will be over-whelmed (what the Obamunauts/Obamunists count on) and tune-out… we’ve got to help keep them engaged. Some Republicans, of course, aren’t helping us failing to still understand: Republicans must be the Party of NO [to Bigger Govt.] not the Party of SLOW[er Liberal Incremental-ism]
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
I think it is quite amazing how Obama has had to revise websites, etc even when the MSM covers for him and that Bush never
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:16PM EDT (link)let himself be rolled by the MSM.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
I thought they'd eventually roll on him.
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 4:04PM EDT (link)I honestly don’t know if that’ll be the case anymore. I just don’t know what it would take. Most of the MSM right now would be indistinguishable from a U.S. Pravda, so I guess it would only be guys like Jake Tapper that would be shutdown in a government takeover.
I have to say I saw the potential for Obama to try to become our own version of Hugo Chavez during the campaign. Nothing has happened to change that view.
“Baseball fits America well because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.” ― Major League Commissioner of Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti
Recent resignations, website revisions and the Gates retraction show that we don't need the MSM to roll
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 5:47PM EDT (link)Obama.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Agreed.
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 6:48PM EDT (link)I just thought one or two of them would want to actually start making money again. I suppose they still think their government bailout is just around the corner.
“Baseball fits America well because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.” ― Major League Commissioner of Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti
I hear ya - I read an intersting analysis of the MSM eschewing of profits and it boils down to
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 8:40PM EDT (link)liberalism as religion for very rich people.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
lmgtfy
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:16PM EDT (link)Mr President, Click Here for a demonstration of my sophisticated vetting process
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he's got a Basketball Van Jones.... oo-oo-ooo...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:31PM EDT (link)Yes, I am the victim of a BasketVAN Jones
Ever since Jones was a little baby, he always be dribblin’ (that Commie schtick)
In fac’, He was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood
Then one day, he mama bought he a Obamanaut Czar Post
And he loved that Obamunist Job
He took that Obamunist dribble with he everywhere he be
That Communism was like a basketball to he
(Basketball Jones)
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
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“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Maybe that's why I can't sleep at night ;)
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:35PM EDT (link)nt
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Birds of a feather......
illinois (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:35PM EDT (link)Obama Got What He Wanted in Van Jones
Monday, September 7, 2009 1:07 PM
By: Ronald Kessler
The Obama White House is blaming inadequate vettting for the misguided appointment of environmental adviser Van Jones. But while the White House undoubtedly missed some of Jones’ repugnant statements, it would be hard to imagine hiring anyone who has been in public life without knowing his reputation.
Moreover, Jones’ statements are tame compared with those of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whom Obama considered a mentor for 20 years……..
In Jones, the White House got what it wanted. Americans who don’t understand that are in denial about just how radical President Obama really is.
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/obama_jones_beck_kessler/2009/09/07/257142.html
Jones was not vetted because he was vouched for
tjexcite (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 2:39PM EDT (link)Secret Service: Who is the Van Jones?
Obama: he is okay, he is with me.
SS: Sir are you sure? .
Jarrett: You heard him now get out of the way.
SS: We did this google search thing on hi,m and some unacceptable things came up.
Jarrett: How would you like to unemployed
SS: Van Jones has passed the Secret Service vetting process.
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all
Spot on.............
Bobcat51 Monday, September 7th at 2:52PM EDT (link)Obama, MO and Jarret have vetted every one if these Tsars and the pass mark was to be a RADICAL LEFT WING NUTROOT.
Obama and MO have an agenda and these fools were the tools to succeed in this plot. The WH is full of radicals and Chicago thugs. Obama and MO told us all in their speeches but the blind did not want to hear!
Obama and MO are radical left wing types who have over their lifetimes associated with the communists in the community organizing gangs. We have a real problem in that the Fourth Estate is deader than dead with any form of investigative journalism. It was up to Beck, Limbaugh, Levin Hannity, bloggers and others to expose who Obama and MO really are.
The future is grim if these radicals are not brought to heal by a more informed electorate and sooner the better!
The arrogance that oozes from these left wingers is sickening
The left wing intent is to destroy the existing society and replace it with a society of its own design.
Remember the Firing of the IG?
lurker9876 Monday, September 7th at 3:37PM EDT (link)Van Jones and Obama shared the same ideology. The IG did not.
Hotair and firedoglake both have good points.
Hotair said that when the Republicans gain the majority back, the left wings will revenge this on the Republican Party. The Republican Party should prepare themselves for these attacks that will come in the future.
Too bad that we have this kind of a two-party system go back and forth. The Democrats have learned beyond the Republicans. The Republicans need to catch up quickly to play the Democrats’ game.
That's the wisdom of the checks and balances
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:52PM EDT (link)Without hurdles such as the filibuster (first employed in the 1830s), the American people are not subject to the whipsaw costs that would ensue if all that was required to pass partisan legislation is a simple majority. As it is now, passage of major legislation requires at least 60% in the Senate, and at least a 20% reversal swing to undue that legsilation once passed.
Setting aside the politics of 2009, I think that is an excellent constraint imposed by the American system of government.
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As to the revenge attack, there's only one way to be prepared
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 4:20PM EDT (link)Have principled conservatives in Congress.
Predicting that the left is going to attack is like predicting that it will be dark tonight
What we can do much better than the last time we held the majorities is to hold those majorities with members committed to conservative principles, not just a bunch of RINOs enjoying the trappings of govt power and going along to get along.
We can win the arguments if we walk the walk. I’m less worried about the left than ensuring elected conservatives legislate as conservatives.
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Stop Cass Sunstein a radical anti-gun law professor
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 3:43PM EDT (link)http://www.stopsunstein.com/
“[A]lmost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the Court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms. ”
- Cass Sunstein, writing in his book, “Radicals in Robes”
“Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives …”
- 2004 book Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions
“[Humans’] willingness to subject animals to unjustified suffering will be seen … as a form of unconscionable barbarity… morally akin to slavery and the mass extermination of human beings.”
- Cass Sunstein, in a 2007 speech at Harvard University
“[T]here should be extensive regulation of the use of animals in entertainment, in scientific experiments, and in agriculture.”
- Cass Sunstein, “The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer,”
August 2002.
“A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and
self-government.”
-Cass Sunstein, arguing for a Fairness Doctrine for the
Internet in his book, Republic.com 2.0 (page 137).
Cass Sunstein Quotes
http://www.stopsunstein.com/media/pdf/Sunstein%20quote%20file.pdf
Consider the view that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to own guns. The view is respectable, but it may be wrong, and prominent specialists reject it on various grounds. As late as 1980, it would have been preposterous to argue that the
Second Amendment creates an individual right to own guns, and no federal court invalidated a gun control restriction on Second Amendment grounds until 2007. Yet countless Americans politicians, in recent years, have acknowledged that they respect the
individual right to bear arms, at least in general terms. Their views are a product of the energetic efforts of meaning entrepreneurs – some from the National Rifle Association, who have press a particular view of the Second Amendment.
–Cass R. Sunstein, A Constitution of Many Minds, Princeton University Press,
2009, p. 172-173
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
This "he wasn't vetted properly" CW is a crock
peg_c (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 4:02PM EDT (link)and a lot of us knew it from the get-go. It’s not that these people aren’t incompetent – they really do seem to be. But this RINO whining that Obama has been allowing himself to be pulled to the left by the nutroots and radicals in Congress is just flagrantly ridiculous. This Jones guy ideologically is THE FACE of this regime (I’ve stopped calling it an administration – that’s too respectable for what these crooks and liars are). They’re just having a harder time than they expected hiding the truth (troof) about their czars and other appointees. But hey, they can spin it all as racism. I don’t think America is buying it.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
The Greater Fools Are...
minncon (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 5:41PM EDT (link)… anyone who would entertain for even a second the thought that Van Jones was not vetted properly, or that Komrade Obama did not get exactly what he asked for in this radical wacko buffoon.
“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?” -Steven Wright
The quotes from Jarrett confirm he was known
GregInFla (Diary) Monday, September 7th at 11:42PM EDT (link)You cannot doubt the fact that Jones was indeed the man they wanted.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.