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Green Jobs Czar Van Jones: Another Subversive Nutter from Team Obama

Van Jones is Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar.

And if you haven't heard, he's also a self-described black nationalist and communist. Mr Jones was actually arrested during the 1991 LA riots, where anti-American malcontents he met in the can had a life-changing effect on the impressionable, angry lad. Of course, all this should have disqualified him for any position in an American presidential administration... and surely would have, back before the ludicrous Obama era.

Radical with vengeful racial agenda? Check!

Incompetent and inexperienced? Check!

Obedient Obama toady? Check!

Suffice to say, Mr Jones will fit-right-in with the rest of Obama's wack pack. But when this appointment is taken in-addition to a Science Czar that has stated that trees should have the ability to sue us in a court-of-law (you read it right) -as well as numerous other out-there WH appointees- this begs the question:

Does Barack Obama know any normal people?

Green Jobs Czar Van Jones' official title is certainly a Kafka-esque mouthful:

Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality

How has this man of such grandiose bureaucratic title actually performed over his first few months on the job? While it's often difficult to extrapolate exactly what Obama is actually trying to accomplish with myriad new programs, agencies, and political appointments- it seems safe to assume that the job description involves creating jobs (outside of his own office) of some sort. But in reality, and despite $60B of Porkulus funds dedicated to the task of creating a "green" economy... America's new Green Jobs Czar Van Jones has created exactly... er... none. (h/t Moonbattery)

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised by this comprehensive lack of results, as Mr Jones seems to have no idea whatsoever what a "green job" even is, nor does the Obama Administration... even though he has been tasked with creating them, and paid well to do so.

And as reported in The Examiner:

Jones told Newsweek that the real problem is that no one in authority can agree about just what a “green job” actually is:

"Well, we still don’t have a unified definition, and that’s not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it’s getting there, but we haven’t crossed the finish line yet."

The 41-year-old Yale Law School graduate and civil rights lawyer is also the founder of California's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights- "a non-profit agency for justice, opportunities and peace." Sounds idyllic, but Jones' past isn't so pastoral-

The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a "multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences" with which Jones was involved.

In 1992, Van Jones founded another STORM project, Bay Area PoliceWatch, a "hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims and survivors of police abuse." This is fitting, perhaps, since Jones was himself arrested and detained briefly during a protest after the Rodney King verdict that same year. Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005:

"I was a rowdy (black seperatist) nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. 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 ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

Like a character out of The Big Chill, Van Jones seems to have evolved from radical activist to Establishment insider. Perhaps only a left-wing administration incapable of recognizing irony would put a self-described communist in charge of creating jobs.

Luckily for Jones and Obama's many other "Czars" with dubious credentials and troubling backgrounds, his new job was not dependent upon making it through Congressional hearings.

Hat-tip to The Capitalist @ The Freedom Post

Perusing the Conservative Blogosphere...

As Barack Obama's precipitously tanking approval ratings swirl-around-the-rim en-route to the Big Flush- plenty to talk about out there this week...

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► Riehl World View: Blogging legend Dan Riehl casts some sorely-needed light on the total and complete lack of transparency coming from Team Obama in the midst of the vital national debate on Obamacare... and in blatant violation of so many pledges to do otherwise.

► Maggie's Farm: This week we're told of a little slip-of-the-tongue by Barney Frank (don't say it) which seemed to let-on to yet another Obama hidden agenda that runs in direct conflict with his previous promises...

► No Sheeples Here: Carol at NSH touches-upon the ludicrous spectacle of Dan Rather lecturing us all on how we should be "concerned" for our democracy if -Heaven forbid- the MSM were to disappear from the political landscape. Mr Rather doesn't seem to realize that he's one of the primary culprits in it's credibility-implosion, nor does he understand capitalism much apparently- since he hasn't learned what the invisible hand of the market is trying to tell him and other Obama lap-dogs like the NYT.



► America's Watchtower: Mr Pink Eyes at AW fills us in on how Obama’s wacked-out science czar advocated giving trees the right to sue.” Yeah... you read that right.



► Moonbattery: In other far-left-freaks-now-in-Obama's-cabinet news- Van Jones, a communist and black nationalist, is Obama's Green Jobs Czar. So, how many green jobs has he produced so far? Any guesses? (...rhymes with "hero") Hey, just like Barack used to do it back in Chi-town! He learned well from his political capo, felon Tony Rezko-



► The Other McCain: Blogosphere stalwart RSMc discusses why the Democrats' easily-gamed-and-already-broke Cash-for-clunkers program was such a beater from the day it rolled off the line. What does this mean for the legislative fate of these kind of misguided statist solutions that Team Obama prescribes for every ill?

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Palin Comes Out Swinging Hard in WaPo OpEd Piece

The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End

By Sarah Palin

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.

American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president's cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.

There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy.

Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.

In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.

The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.

The Americans hit hardest will be those already struggling to make ends meet. As the president eloquently puts it, their electricity bills will "necessarily skyrocket." So much for not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.

Even Warren Buffett, an ardent Obama supporter, admitted that under the cap-and-tax scheme, "poor people are going to pay a lot more for electricity."

We must move in a new direction. We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today.

In Alaska, we are progressing on the largest private-sector energy project in history. Our 3,000-mile natural gas pipeline will transport hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of our clean natural gas to hungry markets across America. We can safely drill for U.S. oil offshore and in a tiny, 2,000-acre corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if ever given the go-ahead by Washington bureaucrats.Of course, Alaska is not the sole source of American energy. Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source. Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas, and every state can consider the possibility of nuclear energy.

We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter.

For so many reasons, we can't afford to kill responsible domestic energy production or clobber every American consumer with higher prices.

Can America produce more of its own energy through strategic investments that protect the environment, revive our economy and secure our nation?

Yes, we can. Just not with Barack Obama's energy cap-and-tax plan.

The Washington Post

The writer, a Republican, is governor of Alaska.