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 aholes, and hes 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 dont 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 hes become a liability for a White House that doesnt 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 Joness Council on Environmental Quality's special adviser for green jobs.
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I agree with others who note that the GOP has been largely AWOL on this and every other fight we’re in.
Its been mostly Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney, Beck, and Limbaugh.
Note to any would-be presidential candidates out there. If your name isn’t on the list, you’d better get on the list or don’t bother calling come campaign season. I’ve got no use for anyone who is AWOL right when it counts.
This is gut-check time. How bad do you want to be president?
I see you’ve got some Sarah issues yourself, with some of your recent comments below. You go for the dumb broad bait hook, line and sinker. So what are you, part of the anti-strong woman cult?
“There is no comparison between a Patraeus and a Palin.
IQ difference about 30 points at the least.
True, I have to learn more about his positions, but he withstood withering questioning from liberal Democrats, which is more than Palin could do.
Palin couldnt remember what she read for news sources.
Palin claimed she never heard what Tina Fey was saying about her, because she just watched SNL with the sound down.
Palin is MAYBE VP material, but not Presidential . Will see how she conducts herself in the next few months.
When Sarah Palin made a fool of herself on Saturday Night Live . .that is when she lost my support. Sorry.
Sarah Palin is the Democrats Dream Candidate.
Perhaps Levi Johnston could be her Campaign Manager?”
What a load...This lady must think that Zero ended up in Jeremiah Wright's church b/c he took so many cabs in Chicago, he eventually just ended up there.
When you troll Marxist organizations, you'll hook Marxists.
NO MORE CZARS!!!!!!
NO MORE CZARS!!!!!!!!!
What a revoltin’ development THIS is!
This Van Jones business has been percolating for months now, and if it were not for the efforts of the internet, and websites like Free Republic who have been talking about this from the beginning, nobody would be any the wiser about Van Jones. The major Media have largely ignored this story all along so what reporting they do has little or no context.
This scandal is providing some very raw insight into the exact questions Freepers have been raising hell about since Obama first hit the National scene with his campaign. Conservatives and Republican have been demonized in the media for even suggesting that there was anything questionable about this or any other “Czar” that Obama has appointed. Now the very things we have all seen coming or suspected about these appointments all along are being proven to be largely true.
The longer Jones is allowed to stay, the louder the complaints will grow and eventually Jones will probably be canned. I am still giving attractive odds that Obama is arrogant enough to try and let this one die down on it’s own...
But let’s not lose sight of the very revealing information we are getting about the utter lack of vetting that has taken place, along with the fact that someone with a lot of authority had to directly over-ride the Secret Service before Jones could have even visited the White House.
Even if Jones is fired tonight, I think tremendous damage has already been done to Obama...
God Bless the Internet...
And what exactly are some concrete examples of any of these people actually doing something that can be related to the above? "Powerful problem solvers?" Give me a break.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” July 4, 1776
I agree. Most people, I think, intuit that Jones is Obama's alter ego.
Yes.
That however will be conveyed as "he was communistic then, he is a true American now".
Which of course is utter BS.
The type of people Obama has associated with which has come to light is enough to be concerning to even the most left minded democrats.
It's showing in the polls too.
Reverend (LMAO) Wright was the same thing, Obama dumped him to promote better political numbers.
It's going to be tougher to dump a hand picked CZAR however.
It's gut check time alright, but I don't want to pick a pres by 'who wants it the most'. That's how you end up getting liars, cheats and thieves.
I hope Van Jones hangs out on this limb for a while, continuing to suck the oxygen out of Obama’s healthcare media coverage.
You were warned!
The whole thing is a team effort. I understand this started with WND, then went to frontpagemag, then went to gateway pundit, all helped by the FR.
Then you had Glenn Beck really going hook, line and sinker. Now the Senators and Congressmen are coming on board. Props to Jake Tapper of ABC News, who broke the MSM news embargo.
And isn't it a wonderful thing to behold. God bless Americans.
“...... how Jones slipped past the White House vetting process.”
He didn’t slip by a damn thing, he was an Obama pick and he was hired... it’s that simple.
“By some counts, the Obama administration has about 30 czars..... “
The last I heard it was up to 36, that’s nearly 40 Obama drones that likely couldn’t pass a background check at your local McDonald’s .... yet they are in the White House planing our future, spending our treasure and the treasure of our grandchildren.
Obama needs to be IMPEACHED NOW.
If you can believe it I haven't read a newspaper in about 5 years!
Anything useful is on the internet. The local paper is the Washington Post and it's packed wall to wall with lies and misrepresentations.
Katy Couric reads newspapers and it shows in her inability to keep on track with relevant stuff
Do you approve of this republicans statement on Van Jones? She is a candidate for Governor of California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn37TMXZO8&feature=player_embedded
planing our future= (((planning))) our future
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