Posted by
Catmman on Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:29:55 AM
Full recap of the Van Jones 'saga' (everything you wanted to know about Jones' radicalism is there, go see it!)
I think this paragraph
from Allahpundit sums things up as well.:
Three points to take away from this, though. One: We were told
during the campaign that Wright and Ayers were non-issues because they
wouldn’t be part of the administration, but has Wright, for instance,
said anything vastly worse than Jones has? If he’s persona non grata on
Team Barry, why wasn’t Van the man? Two: As noted by Driscoll and Mickey Kaus
and doubtless dozens of others, so astonishing was the press blackout
on this story that millions of people will wake up today, see the
headline, and wonder, “Who the hell is Van Jones?” This isn’t as sexy a
media-bias scandal as Rathergate or the silence on Edwards during the
primary, but it’s significant. And three: To keep beating a dead horse,
this never would have happened had Jones been forced to sit for a
Senate confirmation because the White House never would have nominated
him. They knew he was toxic and they knew Republicans would
force the press to cover that fact at a hearing. That’s the whole point
of having “czars” — to install people in positions of cabinet-level
power without having to deal with the Senate’s pesky check-and-balance.
It needs to change. Soon.