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The Spectacle Blog
One thing worth highlighting from Paul Kengor’s exposé of high-level White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, is her endorsement of “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones.
Both the Obamas liken Jarrett to a sibling, and the president clears all his major initiatives with her, saying she is “someone I trust completely.”
All the more troubling, then, that Jarrett enthusiastically supported the appointment of Van Jones in 2009, describing him as someone “we were so delighted to be able to recruit… into the White House.” Jones, a Marxist, was soon forced to resign amid controversy about his support for the 9/11 “truther” movement.
And just yesterday Jones appeared at the Campus Progress national conference and criticized Americans for Tax Reform president (and Spectator contributor) Grover Norquist, painting his Taxpayer Protection Pledge as a way for legislators to weaken their existing oath to defend the Constitution by diverting loyalty to the issue of stopping tax hikes.
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Occam's Tool| 7.7.11 @ 4:02PM
Jarrett's and Ron Paul's foreighn policy views are in lockstep for the most part---except that Paul is farther to the Left.
Clint| 7.7.11 @ 10:11PM
Screwball Israel Firster Fanatic Tool Job Is All PMS'y because many of We Tea Party Patriots & Our Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul & Our Tea Party Co-Favorite Dr.Ron Paul Don't Asskiss Tool Job's Personal Israel Firster Agenda.
Dr. Ron Paul,
“Borrowing money from China — or printing it out of thin air — to hand out overseas in [an] attempt to purchase friends has been a failing foreign policy, as we see most recently in Egypt where there is not even a government in place!
We should seek friendly relations and trade overseas, but we cannot justify lavish gifts to foreign leaders when American taxpayers are increasingly feeling the pain of our economic crisis.”
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
mzk1| 7.8.11 @ 4:56AM
Forgive me for feeding the troll, but this is even more rediculous than his usual drivel. The foreign aid budget is so miniscule, that to claim it is causing us to borrow is insane. Although I would wonder why we did give money to Egypt. You notice that their part of the budget is hardly criticized, only the Israeli part.
I just wish this jerk wouldn't besmirch the good name of the tea party by associating himslef with it.
Clint| 7.8.11 @ 7:31AM
Duuuuhhhhhh ! Get Bent mzk1.
Dr.Ron Paul,
"As the President prepares to send even more support to Egypt, we should
be reminded that it was our foreign aid that helped Mubarak retain power
to repress his people in the first place. Now we have to deal with the
consequences of those decisions, yet we keep repeating the same mistakes.
“I am not the only one who can see the absurdities of our foreign
policy. We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her enemies.
Most Americans know that makes no sense.
“We need to come to our senses, trade with our friends in the Middle
East (both Arab and Israeli), clean up our own economic mess so we set a
good example, and allow them to work out their own conflicts.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Carpe Diem.
NotPropagandized| 7.7.11 @ 4:29PM
VanJones is a clown, but reportedly with great intelligence and charisma. Why don't Democrats/Marxists vet their people for clownishness before they're given serious jobs with serious responsibilities. Reportedly, Obama has intelligence to go along with his charisma, obvious good looks and high-beam smile. But why don't Democrats/Marxists vet their people economic / business / financial illiteracy-ignorance?... Excuse me a moment...
[What did you say?]
Oh, OK. Economic / business / financial knowledge is not in the Democrat platform or ideological skill-set.
Nevermind....
HorizonScanner| 7.7.11 @ 4:48PM
Therefore, the Unionista BigBoys, who are the biggest visitors to the Oval Office, and whose special orgs received biggest bucks from the Stimulus Funny Money, are, with their president, loyal strict constructionist patriots, and not, as they seem to be, either Fascists or Socialists or a hybrid, Mr. Jones? Or, speaking of you, to whom are the Czars, a secret, unvetted governing entity, answerable? Not to me, a citizen, but to you, Czar Jones, and your ally in arms, Cass Sunstein, and to your hidden, anti-Constitutional agenda which employs Alinskian doublespeak to make your bizarre claims, which, are, actually, attack propaganda acts.
Aarradin| 7.7.11 @ 7:55PM
Valerie Jarrett = Obama's Rasputin
weddingdress | 7.8.11 @ 4:44AM
Not to me, a citizen, but to you, Czar Jones, and your ally in arms, Cass Sunstein, and to your hidden, anti-Constitutional agenda which employs Alinskian doublespeak to make your bizarre claims, which, are, actually, attack propaganda acts.
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