Posted on 09/04/2009 4:23:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
GOP uses Jones to launch czar revolt By: Lisa Lerer September 4, 2009 06:19 PM EST
Republicans who have spent months criticizing the proliferation of “czars” in the Obama White House have finally landed a major punch.
Over the past few weeks, White House green jobs czar Van Jones has been accused of being a communist, an old lecture video showed him calling Republicans a—holes, and he’s been connected to a Sept. 11 conspiracy group.
With that type of paper trail, Jones would have trouble surviving a Senate confirmation.
But his czar status allowed him to skip this step: Many of the high-level White House policy advisers don’t require Senate confirmation for their posts. And while liberals have hailed Jones as a pioneer in the green jobs movement, critics have labeled him a radical — and he’s become a liability for a White House that doesn’t need another distraction.
On Friday, Republicans began calling for his resignation and asked for a public hearing into how Jones slipped past the White House vetting process. And White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Friday avoided addressing the Jones controversy directly, referring reporters back to a Jones statement apologizing for his affiliation with the Sept. 11 "truthers."
The Jones debacle shows how czars — dozens of powerful problem solvers tapped to tackle some of the thorniest problems facing the country — could continue to cause problems for the White House. By some counts, the Obama administration has about 30 czars — a term used as shorthand for long, wonky titles such as Jones’s “Council on Environmental Quality's special adviser for green jobs.”
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The turd democraps should be follwing suit if they give a crap about the Constitution. Oh well, nevermind.
The gang that couldn’t Google one guy is going to efficiently run health care ??!!
Riiiight.
“What is this Sarah cult all about?”
Oh... you know... it is kind of like that Reagan cult long ago.
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Don’t send me anymore private messages troll, just make your posts on the thread.
Meg Whitman is all over this Van Jones guy when she is trying to push him to those reporters.
It is an embarrassing and revealing display by this Romney agent who only registered republican in 2007 and rarely bothers to vote.
Watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn37TMXZO8&feature=player_embedded
I used to live in California, and don’t recall Reagan quitting his job as Governor in the middle of his term.
Oh, I don't know...
This is a great article. Glenn Beck “has landed a punch”.
...what's this Glenn Beck cult all about?
I think we should all be thrilled and celebrate the fact that we now have more big guns than just Rush. I would imagine Rush is pretty happy about that, too!
Sarah got off a "kill shot" on the "death panels", and it looks as though Glenn's about to bag one, too.
I'd say 9YearLurker (Yep, I’d say Sarah and Glenn have done the most damage so far) gave both their due. Works for me.
Will give Sarah props for the Death Panels line. Touche.
Glenn Beck landed the punch, while the GOP has been OUT to LUNCH.
Better yet: “NO CZARS” AT ALL!” They are un-Constitutional and undercut the Congress and the Senate, but the dimwitted victims there don’t seem to realize they have lost more power. Who funds the Czars anyway? What powers do they really have? Does anyone know? Or care? The Sheeple are catatonic. The media is sleeping with the messiah and don’t care to investigate. Te Republic is toast!
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I believe that spamming people with freepmail can become an issue with the moderators.
As I was reading your posting history I thought I was picking up signs of a retread troll, I am sure of it now.
AMEN! (Or should I say "A-WOMEN" LOL!)
Palin-Bachmann Overdrive 2012!!
What we need to do is be prepared to keep bringing ol'Jonesy up every single time as an example of the sort of scum the Obama Regime prefers to deal with.
A nonexistent entity perpetuated by drama queens, male and female alike.
Reagan wasn’t governor of Alaska and then having to live isolated from the mainland after being identified as the conservative leader of the republican party after being nominated for vice president.
To try and face the left wing onslaught from office in Alaska or Hawaii is impossible.
Van Jones accused himself of being a communist, to be precise.
I wish her the best. If she wins the GOP nomination, I shall be voting for her.
She is a liberal cow, that is anti second amendment and pro-abortion, she rarely votes and only became a republican less than two years ago.
Her political mentor is the anti-second amendment, pro-abortion (until 2008 campaign), liberal, Mitt Romney who has bought a house in California to help defeat any one to right from knocking her out.
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