Posted on 09/10/2009 2:43:04 PM PDT by Fudd Fan
Oh, I agree. I’m just trying to make sense of it.
I believe the great Ali Veritas sent this about Here it is in case you missed it:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/breaking-dems-turned-to-terrorist-led.html
Breaking: Dems Turned to Terrorist-Led Organizations to Write Stimulus Bill
New Zeal reported last month that Van Jones helped found Apollo and served on its board until recently-alongside Gerry Hudson of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), former Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) supporter Carl Pope and Joel Rogers-founder of the radical New Party-which Barack Obama joined in Chicago in 1995.
The New York state Apollo Alliance Director is Jeff Jones.
Jones co-founded the Weatherman terrorist organization with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
Jeff Jones is a former member of the 1970s terrorist organization, the Weather Underground. More than that, Jones was a founder and one of four key leaders of the organization with Mark Rudd, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. (New Zeal)
The Apollo Alliance, with leaders Jeff Jones and Van Jones, helped democrats write the Stimulus bill. Provisions in the bill funnel federal tax dollars to unions, green groups and community organizers and organizations like Apollo.
Jones is helping write the grant proposals for federal stimulus funds.
Phil Kerpen reported at The New York Post reported:
VAN Jones resigned as White House green-jobs czar after the public got a look at his history of radical activism, including his time building the so-called Apollo Alliance — a coalition of left-wing interest groups unified around the green-jobs concept. But another, even more radical Jones (not related) is leading Apollo’s New York state activities.
Jeff Jones was a domestic terrorist in the late ‘60s and a fugitive from justice throughout the ‘70s — yet now he’s a leader of an influential, taxpayer-funded group.
Jones was a fugitive from justice for 11 years. His own account at his Web site says: “As a leader of the Weather Underground, Jeff evaded an intense FBI manhunt for more than a decade. In 1981, they finally got him. Twenty special agents battered down the door of the Bronx apartment where he was living with his wife and four-year-old son.”
With Mark Rudd and Bill Ayers, Jones in 1969 co-founded the radical Weatherman, which orchestrated the violent “Days of Rage” riots in Chicago, and later undertook an anti-government bombing campaign. Three of its members died when a bomb they were constructing to attack Fort Dix accidentally detonated in Greenwich Village.
And Jones is still proud of his terrorist activities — saying as recently as 2004: “To this day, we still, lots of us, including me, still think it was the right thing to try to do.”
Now, Jones is back to revolutionary organizing — but with taxpayers footing the bill. He’s the director of the Apollo Alliance’s New York affiliate and a consultant to the national group.
Apollo unifies the three most powerful elements of the political left — environmental groups, labor unions and street organizers like ACORN — and points them toward a common goal that enriches all of them under the banner of “green jobs.” (Van Jones was an Apollo board member until he joined the White House staff.)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently credited Apollo with helping write the stimulus bill and getting it passed. Yet the stimulus’ “green jobs” provisions funnel federal tax dollars to unions, green groups and community organizers — that is, the organizations that make up Apollo.
Green jobs serve a political purpose, but not an economic one.
So who’s taking over for the ultimate thread mistress?
Sure, he’s likely outlived his usefulness, but he was critical for Alito, Thomas, and Roberts.
So, 1960s radicals never fade away . . . they get cushy jobs writing legislation to steal our money.
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Since then, he has TURNED. You don’t see it?
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Sarah Palin response to Obama speech
Yesterday at 9:25pm
After all the rhetoric is put aside, one principle ran through President Obama’s speech tonight: that increased government involvement in health care can solve its problems.
Many Americans fundamentally disagree with this idea. We know from long experience that the creation of a massive new bureaucracy will not provide us with “more stability and security,” but just the opposite. It’s hard to believe the President when he says that this time he and his team of bureaucrats have finally figured out how to do things right if only we’ll take them at their word.
Our objections to the Democrats’ health care proposals are not mere “bickering” or “games.” They are not an attempt to “score short term political points.” And it’s hard to listen to the President lecture us not to use “scare tactics” when in the next breath he says that “more will die” if his proposals do not pass.
In his speech the President directly responded to concerns I’ve raised about unelected bureaucrats being given power to make decisions affecting life or death health care matters. He called these concerns “bogus,” “irresponsible,” and “a lie” — so much for civility. After all the name-calling, though, what he did not do is respond to the arguments we’ve made, arguments even some of his own supporters have agreed have merit.
In fact, after promising to “make sure that no government bureaucrat .... gets between you and the health care you need,” the President repeated his call for an Independent Medicare Advisory Council — an unelected, largely unaccountable group of bureaucrats charged with containing Medicare costs.
He did not disavow his own statement that such a group, working outside of “normal political channels,” should guide decisions regarding that “huge driver of cost ... the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives....” He did not disavow the statements of his health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, and continuing to pay his salary with taxpayer dollars proves a commitment to his beliefs. The President can keep making unsupported assertions, but until he directly responds to the arguments I’ve made, I’m going to call him out too.
It was heartening to hear the President finally recognize that tort reform is an important part of any solution. But this concession shouldn’t lead us to take our eye off the ball: the Democrats’ proposals will not reduce costs, and they will not deliver better health care. It’s this kind of “healthy skepticism of government” that truly reflects a “concern and regard for the plight of others.” We can’t wait to hear the details on that; we look forward to working with you on tort reform.
Finally, President Obama delivered an offhand applause line tonight about the cost of the War on Terror. As we approach the anniversary of the September 11th attacks and honor those who died that day and those who have died since in the War on Terror, in order to secure our freedoms, we need to remember their sacrifices and not demonize them as having had too high a price tag.
Remember, Mr. President, elected officials work for the people. Forcing a conclusion in order to claim a “victory” is not healthy for our country. We hear you say government isn’t always the answer; now hear us — that’s what we’ve been saying all along.
- Sarah Palin
Obamacare is the opium of the Statist(s).
I thought the exact same thing.
This is a recipe free zone!
The Senate is, essentially, a Country Club. Hatch happens to be the guy who passes out the coasters. No coaster, no cocktail.
I can’t stand them, frankly, and would repeal the 17th Amendment, but you knew that.
Here we go......
You’re welcome.
I liked his “WHAT BILL?” sign. Says it all.
Utah hunters won't be happy. A pro-gun Mormon Democrat could knock one of them off.
Then it’s a football free zone, too!
Nah nah nah!
Da Bears!
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