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Van Jones Warns Of A Progressive "October Offensive" Against Tea Party
realclearpolitics ^ | 09/30/11 | realclearpolitics

Posted on 09/30/2011 12:56:50 PM PDT by barmag25

Van Jones, president of the progressive organization Rebuild the Dream, joins The Last Word to discuss what Washington should be doing about jobs. Jones calls the US' deficit problem "phony" and made up. "Hold on to your hats, we're going to have an October offensive to take back the American dream and rescue America's middle class," Jones told MSNBC's "The Last Word." Jones warns of an "American Fall" like there was an Arab Spring. Jones was President Obama's "green jobs czar" until he resigned in fall of 2009. Transcript below: Van Jones: "We are going to build a progressive counterbalance to the tea party. Eighty percent of Americans agree with everything that you say on this show, but we have no voice. We know that jobs are more important, and this phony, made-up deficit stuff they talk about. We know that people who have done well in America should do well by America and start paying America back in the form of more fair taxes.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: americanfall; octoberoffensive; octobersurprise; teaparty; vanjones
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To: tcrlaf

41 posted on 09/30/2011 1:27:33 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: barmag25

Baracktoberfest?


42 posted on 09/30/2011 1:28:00 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: barmag25

Although Jones is by no means any kind of unique example, it just boggles my mind that complete moonbat nutjobs have gainful employment and earn respect in an economy that is flat on its ass. That we pay good money to people who want nothing more than to tear down the system that pays them, that exalts them as intellectual elites. Guys like this are just completely useless. Indeed, many of them are worse than useless. “Useless” would be a step up for many of them.


43 posted on 09/30/2011 1:30:18 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Madoff screwed the rich. Bernanke screwed us all.)
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To: domeika

44 posted on 09/30/2011 1:31:37 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: barmag25

Hey Van, the Tea Party gatherings are peaceful and patriotic.

If you came face to face with one of these groups, you’d probably gibber, blubber and wet yourself. Akin to the reaction a vampire would have to Holy water.


45 posted on 09/30/2011 1:32:50 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: tcrlaf

They’re more like the new Pot Party.


46 posted on 09/30/2011 1:41:26 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Obama inherited a mild recession from George W. Bush and turned it into a major depression.)
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To: barmag25
"Eighty percent of Americans agree with everything that you say on this show, but we have no voice. We know that jobs are more important, and this phony, made-up deficit stuff they talk about."

Van, if you're going to shuck & jive, why not pick an even bigger number out of thin air? Say that 180 percent of Americans in all 57 states agree, and the eleventy billion people in the world do too!

47 posted on 09/30/2011 1:45:15 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (I never noticed the guy sleeping in the middle -- looks like Judge Reinhold!)
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To: Marie; All

agree- and i asked them to do just that...

http://rebuildthedream.com/contact.php

be harsh but respectful and not over the line...


48 posted on 09/30/2011 1:47:47 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: barmag25

I dunno, I have always found them offensive . . . why should it be any different in October?


49 posted on 09/30/2011 2:19:01 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: cuban leaf

“Attackwatch still up”

Yup, I reported Joe “biteme” Biden for dissing obozo, yesterday.

Attackwatch twitter still feeling the love from tea partiers, freepers and other rightwing types:

http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23attackwatch


50 posted on 09/30/2011 2:42:16 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Marie

Here come da communists! Here come da communists! And they are islam communists.

Are you American black folks feeling stupid yet?


51 posted on 09/30/2011 3:05:26 PM PDT by lephantom
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To: barmag25
...we're going to have an October offensive to take back the American dream ...

Perfect month, October. It's the start of hunting season in most places. Rifles will be sighted-in, ammo will be at hand, and progressive vermin will be good target practice before opening day.

Bring it on.

52 posted on 09/30/2011 3:19:09 PM PDT by cayuga (The next Crusade will be a war of annihilation.)
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To: cuban leaf

I remember the last time they tried that, got a little media coverage promoting their “coffee talks” but nobody bothered to show up. Kind of like their talk radio efforts, Air American anyone?


53 posted on 09/30/2011 4:45:41 PM PDT by pepperdog (Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
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To: barmag25

Yawn!

Just as long as they stay off my property or I’ll educate them on the 2nd Amendment.


54 posted on 09/30/2011 4:48:40 PM PDT by Fledermaus (There is seriously NOTHING that can make me vote for Romney. The country ends either way.)
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To: StAnDeliver

Bump. Chump don’t want da help, chump don’t get da help.


55 posted on 09/30/2011 5:21:03 PM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: barmag25

Hey Van! You mad bro?


56 posted on 09/30/2011 6:17:44 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: cuban leaf
I think he may mean:красный Октябрь= Krazny oktobre= Red October. I love google translate.
57 posted on 09/30/2011 7:36:38 PM PDT by WePledge (Ich werde fur immer ein Hollenhund werden. Semper Fidelis)
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