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September 05, 2009

Time has made me new

We still have not seen the birth certificate, by the way. But before I check my meds, I will pause to reflect that Van Jones in not only a 9/11 Truther.

It must mark a new low in presidential history when the fact that someone is a self-described Communist is not the most damning thing that can be said of a presidential adviser entrusted with federal power. Not only is Green Jobs Czar Van Jones a 9/11 Truther, but his organization believes Hurricane Katrina was a Bush conspiracy, as well.

Why not? He thinks his boss can turn the tides. At this juncture, some might ask what Barack Obama knew about Van Jones (and when did he know it) as if to blame Obama's vetting operation or to question his judgement vis a vis optics.

These are what we call naive questions. Dangerously naive, in fact.

Barack Obama is a Hyde Park academic Marxist. So are his friends and mentors. So too are his appointees. These people are normal for him. The sole flicker of surprise left in me for any of these "revelations" is that there can be a single American left who is surprised by Obama's radical politics. Let alone a journalist, let alone a conservative. But yet they remain.

Possibly related: I have no clue if this is the same Van Jones; too good to check.

Update with video: Glenn Beck and David Horowitz on radicals in the White House.

It's becoming increasingly dangerous with these people. You have to take them at their word.

And: Mark Steyn chides Megan McArdle for her claim that "If the right ever wants to get back in power, it needs to start policing its lunatic fringe," saying:

Er, okay. But the left is in power, and it's got Van Jones the Truther in the White House. Which isn't exactly the "fringe". More of a lunatic mainstream, isn't it?

With respect to Mark Steyn, I think he has missed his own point. Van Jones the Truther is in the White House. If Republicans want their woman (or some guy, I guess) in the White House they should be encouraging their lunatic fringe.

Thanks in part to their combined lunacy, the moonbats now include the President of the United States. You may think the Birthers are nuts but at least they are our nuts.

Non hic porcus Update: Small wonder I have reached the same conclusion as Victor Davis Hanson; such is the parlous state of the social sciences.

When I heard Obama in the campaign promise reparations (quickly retracted), and more victimization studies, I knew where we were headed: namely, that we have someone like the Chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department or the Head of the Sociology Department now running the country.

September 6 Update: Van Jones resigns.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 5, 2009 10:07 AM

Comments

"as if to blame Obama's vetting operation" -- The entire point of 'Special Assistants', or Czars as they are known, is to circumvent the Senate's Constitutional role in screening and vetting the Administration.

It's an unconstitutional dodge used by both parties to amass power. It's enabled by a craven Senate that will allow any transfer of power (to the Executive or Judiciary) so long as they can keep getting re-elected.

PJ O'Rourke is correct: term limits are not enough; we need the death penalty.

Posted by: Clayton Barnett [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 5, 2009 10:42 AM

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