Latest Pajamas Media Column (’In Defense of Van Jones [Sort of]‘) Is Up
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Saturday morning (link won’t work until then) when the blackout expires.
The core question of the column:
So why is Jones gone, while the likes of Tim Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, and Charlie Rangel, to name just a few, are still footloose, fancy-free, and federally employed?
Bonus point:
All of that said, the fact remains that Van Jones has from all appearances not recently committed a crime, has apparently paid his societal penance for his past crimes, and has not committed an error of commission or omission during his brief tenure that would have justified a forced “resignation.” Shoot, if you look around at others in the administration like John Holdren, Zeke the Bleak Emanuel, Carol Browner, Eric Holder, and others, you could probably make a good argument that Jones’ beliefs are in the mainstream of Obama administration and Democratic congressional political thought.
The fact is, Van Jones is a dangerous radical who never should have been in government in the first place, that’s why his forced “resignation” should have happened because he should never had had any tenure to begin with and resign from to start with.
And yes, the Oblamma admin. is filled with like minded dangerous radicals (including King Barry himself) and I’d like to see ‘em all go, but at least this was better than nothing. A minor positive to be sure, but at least it was something. And Jones was definitely one of the worst and furthest left.
And this brings up a bigger problem with the democratic party today, there have moved so far to the left that the extreme is the mainstream.
Comment by zf — September 10, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
#1, agree. The sad thing is that the vast majority have no idea how outrageous and out of control Jones was, and frankly still is.
Comment by TBlumer — September 10, 2009 @ 1:17 pm