Your contributor Tim made this soon to be classic quote.
“No person with contempt for the Constitution is fit for public office.” Art Downes
Well Art that rules out a sizable chunk our General Assembly and most of the House and Senate, not to mention the executive branches at both the state and federal level. The best you can say for a lot of them is that they treat the state and federal Constitutions like friendly suggestions that we are to follow when we have the time and it isn’t too much of an inconvenience.
I wish I said that. This is the heart of our problems in American government. Elect people who revere the Constitution and you put us back on the track to greatness.
Van Jones, ‘Green Jobs Czar’, a selfdescribed ‘communist’
LA Examiner ^ | July 17, 2009 | Kathy Shaidle
Van Jones is President Barack Obama’s newly appointed “Green Jobs Czar”
Jones’ official title is Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
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 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 Van 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.
Thanks for the shout out David.
Annoni, I am sure our Presidents think of the Czars they appoint as being “extra-Constitutional”. I see them as anti-Constitutional. It is only fitting that one or more of them be Communist. It is yet another tacit admission by President Obama of what his true intentions for this nation are.
They don’t even bother to call themselves “progressives” anymore.
I can’t believe that you stole one of my weekend posts annoni.
This is yet another outrage. The President may not be a Marxist, but I guess these last two makes him a fellow traveler.
Now we have Czars, and soon the vanguard of the dictatorship of the proletariat?
Forget the term ‘czar’ and use the more appropriate ‘commissar’.
Among the Russian Tsars, a couple were truly great and Ivan was deemed ‘Terrible’ by the boyars. The peasants called him ‘severe’. Many of the others were mediocre. Our current crop of commissars seem to be superbureaucrats (in power rather than ability) who seem to be ready to rule by decree by the grace of Big Brother.
Perhaps a ‘legislative house of special purpose’ can be concocted soon after November 2010.
You people are way over the top with your labels!
In his recemt book The Green Collar Economy, Van Jones wrote:
” [W]e are entering an era during which our very survival will demand invention and innovation on a scale never before seen in the history of human civilization. Only the business community has the requisite skills, experience, and capital to meet that need. On that score, neither government nor the nonprofit and voluntary sectors can compete, not even remotely.
So in the end, our success and survival as a species are largely and directly tied to the new eco-entrepreneurs — and the success and survival of their enterprises. Since almost all of the needed eco-technologies are likely to come from the private sector, civic leaders and voters should do all that can be done to help green business leaders succeed. That means, in large part, electing leaders who will pass bills to aid them. We cannot realistically proceed without a strong alliance between the best of the business world — and everyone else.”
If you wish to discuss a real radical anti-American who does not revere the Constitution, shall we open a thread on Dick Cheney? I have not seen a one of you bring up this topic! I wonder why?
Perry, read Article I., Section 8., of the US Constitution, and then Madison’s Federalist #41. Do you (and your leftist apparatchiks) know more about the intent of the Founders than the ‘father of the Constitution?’
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Going green equates to going bankrupt. China is opening a new coal-fired plant every week! The rest of the developing world couldn’t care less about Socialist-Democrat ‘global warming’ hysteria, and they’re not going to go bankrupt just to appease the NYTimes editorial pages.
Sure, there’s a future in green technology. But, to put all of one’s eggs into one basket will result in economic botulism.
“Only the business community has the requisite skills, experience, and capital to meet that need.”
so we must gain control of these assets through subsidy and regulation…
sorry Dave.
I suppose that those who would stretch the Bill of Rights into a suicide pact would claim that Dick Cheney was a monster.
Does common sense surveillance bother anyone except fans of terrorists and thugs and the paranoid?
Note that the ‘selective civil libertarians’ claim that their defense of thugs such as Miranda protect the liberties of the average American. Where was the ACLU on Heller?
How many of the Liberal Supremes decided against the people in Kelo?
“That means, in large part, electing leaders who will pass bills to aid them.”
Translated: Regulate any non-green industry out of existence.