September 3, 2009
The president’s “Green Jobs” Czar, Van Jones has stepped in it. He was caught on videotape moderating a Town Hall in Berkeley, California, where he was asked why past Republican-led Congresses got laws passed without having a 60-vote majority in the Senate as the Democrats have now. So why can’t the Democrats pass Health Care Reform?
Any normal person would recognize that this question was about Democrats, but Van Jones answered by saying, “Because they (Republicans) are a**holes.”
That was mature.
Van Jones is a self proclaimed Marxist, Anarchist and “Truther”, which means he believes the Bush Administration knew ahead of time about the 9/11 attacks and allowed them because it would be an excuse to go to war. He also says the Environmental Movement is about completing the revolution that started in the 1960s. In other words, Van Jones is a nut.
But he has an unelected, unaccountable position in the Obama administration, and powers that we can only guess at. He’s either very dangerous or a complete screw-up and won’t be able to create any “Green Jobs”. Either way, he needs to go, and yesterday.
As to the question at the Town Hall meeting, as often happens, the answer is in the question: The reason Democrats can’t pass a Health Care bill is because not enough Democrats want to vote for it.
