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Asking Tough Questions

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Van Jones is history.  Ultimately he will be just another ugly little blip on the radar; hoisted firmly onto his own petard by his personal, self-avowed Communist manifesto and his radical socialist organizing and, ultimately, by his own big, foul mouth.

Despite the ready availability of the material record of Jones’ own stupidity, including that he called Republicans “assholes” only one month before Obama appointed him as his “Special Advisor for Green Jobs”, the mainstream media is playing their violins in chorus of his “I was smeared” excuses.  Falling right into Obama and his administration’s divisive tactics and once again failing to do their job of reporting facts.  It’s a funny switch, this; news op/ed folks bringing to light hard facts while “regular” news reporters and degreed journalists simply drool over every word spun out on the teleprompter and opine derisively about those who hold a differing opinion.

But I digress.

Van Jones is merely one little pawn in a very big game.  He is merely a symptom of an attempt to overthrow the United States Constitution; an overthrow long in the planning.  To ask serious questions about the eligibility of Van Jones to hold a prominent and unaccountable position in the Obama administration is but the first step in crushing the wolf in sheep’s clothing known as the “progressive movement”.

What must now be asked is exactly WHO KNEW about Jones’ claims to Communism, his arrest record, his creation of  STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, a group explicitly committed to revolutionary Marxist politics) and Color of Change, as well as his many crude public statements?  John McCormack explains in a short piece in the Weekly Standard that if Jones had answered their questions truthfully, the FBI would have been fully aware of his less-than-savory…errrr…normal past and (emphasis mine):

… the background report would go to the Counsel’s office (run by Greg Craig), who would then raise the question of whether what the FBI found was disqualifying with the potential employee’s boss. Jones was hired by Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, but he presumably (and ultimately) reports to the chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel must have decided that nothing in Jones’s background was alarming enough to prevent his appointment.

So  … it’s worth asking:  Did Rahm sign off on Jones’s appointment despite what the FBI must have discovered about his background.  And, incidentally–did Jones tell the truth to the FBI?

These questions must be asked about ALL of Obama’s appointees and nominees.   The President, his administration, and Congress are there by the will of we, the people, to SERVE our interests and to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and we, the people, are entitled to straight answers about those who make it their life’s work to subvert it.

 

If You Wonder What The President Thinks…

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…then pay attention to the White House spin.  On George Stephanopoulos’ show, This Week, George and Robert had the following exchange:

GEORGE:  “So the president doesn’t endorse in any way the things that Van Jones said before but the president doesn’t want him to go?’

GIBBS:  “He doesn’t but he thanks him for his service.”

Folks, that’s like saying “yes” when someone asks you if you want chocolate or vanilla ice cream.  It’s a non-answer.  A deliberate feint.

In the interests of that Obama-vaunted “transparency”, let’s call ’em clearly.  They are weasel words.

What they really tell us is that President Obama knows full well what’s going on in his administration and won’t do anything about it unless his own image becomes tarnished when the views and actions of those he selects to advise him finally become visible to the mainstream, majority, and ultimately rather conservative American public.

So while Van Jones may be the first casualty of the White House’s socialist agenda, the victory celebrations must necessarily be brief.  For there is a lot more rot left to root out.

Next?

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One down, at least 31 more to go:

“I am resigning my post at the Council on Environmental Quality, effective today.

On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.

I have been inundated with calls – from across the political spectrum – urging me to “stay and fight.”

But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

It has been a great honor to serve my country and my President in this capacity. I thank everyone who has offered support and encouragement. I am proud to have been able to make a contribution to the clean energy future. I will continue to do so, in the months and years ahead.”

Did he sign it, “Love & Commie Kisses, Van”?

It’s really a pity that someone who is apparently so bright went so wrong.  First by buying into the victim mentality and then by using that bright mind to push for something that history has proved time and time again will reward no one but a few who pull the real strings.

It’s time for reflection, Van.  A time to realize that you, along with so many others, have simply been used to further the ambitions of a few, and to understand that there never was a place for you at their exclusive, elitist table.  That was only a carrot dangled in order to get you to be a front man and to take the fall for them should, as has happened, their nefarious tactics come to light.

Knocking down others in order to raise yourself has never worked.  Only by supporting the United States Constitution will you find that you may freely pursue your own happiness and, in that pursuit, perhaps even find it.

Time To Boycott Communist & Radical Supporters

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Oh, woe are the progressive and Communist cohorts within the Obama administration.  It seems they’ve taken offense with Glenn Beck pointing out their divisive, anti-American connections and are calling on advertisors to boycott his television show on FOX.

Let’s see who has decided that paying for exposure during one of the late afternoon’s highest-viewed shows isn’t worth being harrassed by self-avowed Communists:

  • Geico Insurance
  • Lawyers.com
  • Progressive Insurance
  • Procter & Gamble
  • SC Johnson

Just as a bit of background, Progressive was founded by one left-wing philanthropist Peter B. Lewis.  Who is he?

  • Major donor to Democrat political candidates and leftist causes
  • In 2004 the list included $16 million to the Joint Victory Campaign, $2.9 million to America Coming Together, and $2.5 million to Move On.Org.  In February 2008, Lewis contributed money to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. He is also a close friend of Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • Supports the legalization of marijuana
  • Close friend of George Soros 

    • No great loss there.

    But just who are the divisive, anti-Americans behind the boycott?  Of particular interest is the Obama administration’s “green jobs czar”, Van Jones.  You know, one of those people annointed … errr … appointed by the President and given great powers over the people without having to be vetted or confirmed by Congress. 

    Van Jones is a founding board member of Color of Change, often referred to as “an extremist racial grievance group” whose methods include stirring up racial antagonism in order to promote a socialist agenda.  (Sounds like a kissing cousin of ACORN, doesn’t it?)  Van Jones was also a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, aka STORM.  Speaking to the East Bay Express, Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested.

    “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”

    “I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’ I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary,” he said.

    Just a shining example of morality this country needs, eh?

    But now that their home boy done good, both Mr. Jones and Color of Change are trying to hide their connections from what they know full well are the majority of Americans who are, rightfully, less-than-sympathetic to either radicals or Communists.   From Newsbusters:

    Now that Van Jones is in the news all the time, Color of Change doesn’t want you to know he helped start the group. Maybe having an avowed America-hating totalitarian radical on the group’s board is bad public relations.

    The group deleted references to Jones on its “about” page. That page used to say, “James Rucker and Van Jones came together in the wake of [Hurricane] Katrina to use the organizing power of the Internet to give Black Americans and our allies a renewed and strengthened political voice.”

    But now it doesn’t.

    The old page still exists in the Google cache.  (The cache will eventually be cleared, so for safekeeping, I made a PDF of the page here.) The 501(c)(4) group’s 2006 and 2007 tax returns (IRS Form 990) show Jones as a director.

    Jones was also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. Beck pounded away at the Apollo Alliance and Jones on a recent show.

    I think that the sensible reaction to this kind of bullying, playground nonsense is to boycott the cowardly and in-the-commie-hip-pocket advertisers.  I also think it’s always a good idea to let businesses know why they are losing you as a customer so use the links below to tell them that caving in to the whining of entitlement radicals and the administration is bad business:

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