Not a single other news source will admit to that truth. A few blame poor vetting while the rest ignore the question entirely.
Glenn Beck has asked the question “Did Obama know about Van Jones radical communist background or is he ignorant about all the radical czars surrounding him?”
This is the fulcrum that Beck is going to beat on, and correctly. This is not about Van Jones. This is all about Obama surrounding himself with radical communists. The die has now been cast, as a few of the MSM sources covering for him are calling it a matter of bad vetting. So that is going to be the “official” reason.
As Glenn Beck and Rush, Hannity, Savage, FOX and all the rest begin to expose more and more radical communists surrounding Obama, he is going to look very stupid for having not vetted these dozens of personal advisors so close to him and he will look incompetent.
Obama chose the right way to go. He could not admit “OK you caught me. I’m a communist and I’m trying to move the USA there and here is my army to do it.” He had to throw Van Jones under the bus with a “oops, we didn’t vet this obscure underling.”
Now Obama is trapped. As more and more radicals are exposed close to him, he is going to have to start explaining why he missed so many of them being unvetted, and that will lead to the obvious question, “Mr President, how could you recruit so many radical communists? Just coincidence?”
Some Congressmen are already calling for vetting his remaining czars and advisers, based on Van Jones “slipping through”. This is the opening the Republicans in Congress need to out the other czars. “Mr. President, if Van Jones wasn’t competently vetted, you better let us vet the others competently so we can be sure you don’t have any other accidental radical communists slip through.”
Obama is trapped. Check and mate.
If the Republicans are aggressive enough at this, it puts Obama on the defensive and he has to abandon even pursuing socialized medicine until he can get through the entire process of vetting all of his advisors.
Not that this will happen automatically. The Republican Senators and Congressmen have to demand this, with the help of the public demanding this. The Republicans need to go on the offensive immediately and demand that the backgrounds of all of Obama’s czars be rechecked, on the suspicion that others may have oops slipped through. If Obama didn’t vet this czar, then it stands to reason there are others he didn’t vet either, and so the Congress is right to demand it. If Obama refuses, then he is caught in “what are you trying to hide, Mr. President? Are you saying you know there are others who can’t pass being vetted?”
Check and mate.
I have an idea that I have posted before:
Conservatives in Congress need to start offering Amendments such as:
1.) No person in the executive branch, described as a “czar” by the President, will have the power to hire or fire anyone in the Federal Government.
2.) Every Cabinet Secretary, after having been confirmed by the Senate, will have the power to fire anyone in the Executive Branch who has ANY “czar” type responsibility in any particular branch of government. If that decision runs counter to the opinion of the President, that Cabinet Secretary shall STILL have the power to fire that “czar” and the President is, hereby, put on notice that the firing of ANY Cabinet Secretary, for such action, will automatically prompt a Congressional oversight hearing, and the President will NOT be able to fill that vacant Cabinet post until Congress is convinced that all problems have been corrected.