The sound you just heard was White House "Green Jobs" Czar Van Jones being tossed under the bus just after midnight this morning, so as to not make the Sunday headlines.
Mr. Jones joins several other people who have held the President's attention and admiration to get thrown under public transportation when we find out what kind of ideas people hold who've got the ear of the President.
If this event comes as a surprise to you, one can only assume you get your news from mainstream sources, as they only noticed the story briefly yesterday, and were no doubt stunned by the event of last night, because, well, after all, being a Truther is only bad if you're a right-wing whackjob, it's just a cute eccentricity if you have a proper liberal mindset and credentials (oddly enough, oft-times involving prestige university degrees, too).
Adherence to Trutherism is only dangerous in a person if they approach things from a right-wing perspective. It's evidence of a harmless hobby when you enter stage left. How else to explain Rosie O'Donnel and Michael Moore, et.al.?
It's too bad this President finds the processes of separation of powers in this Republic so tedious. Truly, oligarchy is so much easier a way for those who govern to conduct their affairs, without the proles mucking things up with silly things like opinions and ideas. Perhaps however, if his administration had been required to do the vetting job needful to prepare for a Senate confirmation hearing, all this might have been avoided? One wonders...
Oh, wait - perhaps one reason they avoid them is because, well, so many Democrats don't bother paying their taxes until they're about to get a government job that we just didn't want to go through that again, because their vetting process was apparently more about confirming what we believe and want, vice... oh, looking at things from all sides and outside the bubble.
Note to the political class - the Internet has changed things. The day when the mainstream media decided what was news, (and anything embarrassing to the anointed of the MSM was most definitely *not* newsworthy, while the peccadilloes of the unwashed are fair game) are over.
Just ask Van Jones, who ran into Gateway Pundit and bounced under the bus.
Oh - and bringing up 'Birthers" and "Republicans are stupid and corrupt too" does *not* constitute a defense, nor a good argument. It just means you're lazy, and possibly stupid. The issue isn't which side - they're both guilty. If you can't discern that, please don't waste your bile in the comments, go spew somewhere else, 'k?
Mr. Jones joins several other people who have held the President's attention and admiration to get thrown under public transportation when we find out what kind of ideas people hold who've got the ear of the President.
If this event comes as a surprise to you, one can only assume you get your news from mainstream sources, as they only noticed the story briefly yesterday, and were no doubt stunned by the event of last night, because, well, after all, being a Truther is only bad if you're a right-wing whackjob, it's just a cute eccentricity if you have a proper liberal mindset and credentials (oddly enough, oft-times involving prestige university degrees, too).
Adherence to Trutherism is only dangerous in a person if they approach things from a right-wing perspective. It's evidence of a harmless hobby when you enter stage left. How else to explain Rosie O'Donnel and Michael Moore, et.al.?
It's too bad this President finds the processes of separation of powers in this Republic so tedious. Truly, oligarchy is so much easier a way for those who govern to conduct their affairs, without the proles mucking things up with silly things like opinions and ideas. Perhaps however, if his administration had been required to do the vetting job needful to prepare for a Senate confirmation hearing, all this might have been avoided? One wonders...
Oh, wait - perhaps one reason they avoid them is because, well, so many Democrats don't bother paying their taxes until they're about to get a government job that we just didn't want to go through that again, because their vetting process was apparently more about confirming what we believe and want, vice... oh, looking at things from all sides and outside the bubble.
Note to the political class - the Internet has changed things. The day when the mainstream media decided what was news, (and anything embarrassing to the anointed of the MSM was most definitely *not* newsworthy, while the peccadilloes of the unwashed are fair game) are over.
Just ask Van Jones, who ran into Gateway Pundit and bounced under the bus.
Oh - and bringing up 'Birthers" and "Republicans are stupid and corrupt too" does *not* constitute a defense, nor a good argument. It just means you're lazy, and possibly stupid. The issue isn't which side - they're both guilty. If you can't discern that, please don't waste your bile in the comments, go spew somewhere else, 'k?
If you are evaluated by the friends you keep and the people you surround yourself with; we are in a lot of trouble. Van Jones is just one in a string of people the President associates with not least of which are the two guys that started up The Weather Underground and murdered citizens of this country for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It is shocking to see the country come to this. I felt we could survive another Jimmy Carter type Lib for 4 years and then fix what was needed. But...this is becoming serious. Those jerks in Congress are feeding money and power to Acorn to perpetuate this travesty.
Yeah... incredibly ironic that we currently have more Czars than Russia ever had.
Be nice if we could convince our Comgress Critters to help depose them. All of them.
So you would think that such dominance would lead to a high level of self-confidence and moral courage; stand to your guns, and all that. Yet Jones resigns because of some bad publicity. What's next, crying to his momma cuz the other kids were mean to him?
I'm not saying all liberals (or even lefties) are like this, but there does seem to be an ivory-tower subset who have -perhaps literally- never been challenged on their positions. When they do encounter such challenges, their reaction reflects an unconscious assumption not only that they're right, but their opponents must be liars, cads, or both. Not because they're liberal, but because they've never had to mount a serious intellectual defense.
If nothing else, William FBuckley in the 1950s, and the 1964 debacle forced conservatives into some critical self-analysis.
Yeah, the print media and the broadcast journals have taken it on the chin because of the due diligence of bloggers who did the job they were too lazy, irresponsible, and biased to do.
Calling the internet a sewer of information is like saying the NYT is accurate. Where are those rigours vetting standards in their own editorial policies?
They can kiss my sweet corn grits.
You forgot their 5 to 4 majority on the Supreme Court. That's pretty much a sweep.
Has anyone looked at the price of ammunition now a days...when you can get it? Punching holes in paper is getting to be an expensive hobby.
One could excuse a wacko flake now and then as slipping under the radar, but this many is not a coincidence, it is a definite strategy, with malice aforethought.
Everything legally and procedurally possible must be done to slow, if not halt this President's destruction of our country.
Shop for ptichforks, etc while there is still time. And, work hard NOW to get rational patriotic Americans on the ballot in the upcoming cycle, and to get them elected despite the near certain chicanery of ACORN and their hordes of imaginary voters.
-John (nta).
I disagree with that sentiment. Not only is it not astonishing to anyone who paid any attention at all during the campaign, it was predicted and is expected.
Obama gave every indication of being 100% anti-American blend of every possible filthosophy to come dribbling out of europe over the preceding century. There is nothing about that man or his actions so far that is any surprise at all.
They may be expendable, but they are expanding government.
The warning signs were there.