Posted by
Always To The Right on Monday, September 07, 2009 1:43:30 PM
Hey, Tom? He’s a Truther in charge of $60 billion in taxpayer money. We’re not talking about some alderman here who got caught saying something off-color at the Dairy Queen. Quoth Jonah Goldberg:
“What a tragedy that fewer people will support cop-killers and
anti-American conspiracy groups because of poor Van Jones chilling
effect on the culture.”
Oh, and speaking of whitewashes, the White House wants you to believe that they didn’t know about any of it.
A White House official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity to discuss a personnel matter, said Sunday that Jones’s past
was not studied as intensively as other advisers because of his
relatively low rank.
Jones’s position, for example, did not require Senate confirmation. So he avoided the kind of vetting Cabinet officials were subjected to…
“He was not as thoroughly vetted as other administration officials,” the official said. “It’s fair to say there were unknowns.”
Valerie Jarrett seemed pretty excited
about him, so presumably she had an inkling about his past. But even if
they’re telling the truth and somehow the multiple-page questionnaire
all administration officials are required to fill out wasn’t broad
enough to catch, ahem, Trutherism, this is nothing less than a
confession by the White House that its czars might very well be
unsavory characters with skeletons in their closets. Why vet them if
they don’t have to pass the Senate, right? And if you do vet them and
conclude that they can’t pass the Senate — as almost certainly happened
with Jones — then just make them a czar and the problem is solved.