Sen. Kit Bond urges congressional hearing on Mr. Jones; GOP Rep. Pence calls for resignation
The GOP is finally waking up on Obama czardom.
I’ve mentioned GOP House Rep. Jack Kingston’s bill on Czar Reform and Accountability before.
Today, GOP Sen. Kit Bond called for congressional oversight on nutball green jobs czar Van Jones:
U.S. Senator Kit Bond, ranking member of the Green Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today called for a Congressional oversight hearing probing the fitness of a senior White House official.
In a letter to Senator Bernie Sanders, Chairman of the Subcommittee with oversight of administration green jobs efforts, Bond voiced concerned that Mr. Van Jones, as Special Advisor to the President for Green Jobs, is becoming increasingly erratic and unstable as reflected by incendiary comments and repugnant associations made public in recent days. Mr. Van Jones is responsible for directing administration policy and spending on tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer funding regarding environmental policy and green jobs programs. However, since the White House appointed him as a “czar,” Mr. Jones was able to avoid any oversight or confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
In his letter to Senator Sanders, Bond wrote, “Today, news outlets are reporting that Van Jones signed a petition from the so-called ‘Truther’ movement which suggests that the Bush administration ‘may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext to war.’ I can imagine few sentiments more repulsive to our brave fighting soldiers and the victims of the 9/11 terror tragedy than to think the U.S. government deliberately allowed the events of 9/11 to occur. Of course Mr. Jones in hindsight is embarrassed by the public disclosure of his participation in the petition drive and now asserts he did not read the fine print of the petition. But can the American people trust a senior White House official that is so cavalier in his association with such radical and repugnant sentiments?”
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House GOP Rep. Mike Pence calls for Jones to resign.
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Dear GOP: Next stop for czar hearings…DeParle, Carrion & Kundra.
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Its starting. Pretty soon we should hear calls for a hearings all all the czars. If not willing to have hearings one would presume they are hiding something. Going to be fun to watch….
Nothing new here, Congresscritters don’t read ANY of the bills (fine print or large BOLD print) they pass.
This will go nowhere because the Dems will shrug, say “what’s the problem,” and move on. They’ll bury this problem just like they’ve buried anything else that makes the Obummer administration look bad.
Obama won’t fire him because this is exactly the kind of person his Marxist administration wants.
I’ll bet a sawbuck that Jones is still here when Obeyme gives his speech to Congress next week….
When is somebody going to petition the SJC to declare these Czar appointments as unconstitutional?
And why not we introduce the other revolutionary nut-balls to the American people while we are at it. Let’s have hearings on all the Constitution dodging czars.
“This will go nowhere…”
Could be. However given the nature of the beast the left knows it will not be in power nor have the White House forever. That means whatever they allow now will come back to haunt them in the future. They could not oppose a conservative President appointing czars then if they defend it now. It is either an okay thing to do or it is not. If they put their stamp of approval on it now, they will have to live with it no matter which party has the White House.
That reality may drive the investigation of it now.
Plus the investigation could be viewed as a way to stop the bleeding.
Will be interesting to see how it goes.
Whats the hurry? Lets let this boil on the Obama administration fester and spread. The resulting infection will contaminate all who have enabled and applauded this appointment. There is no more room under the bus and Obama is going the need a machete to lance this boil.
Jones is not the entire problem. The problem includes Jones, but also Arne Duncan, Cass Sunstein, John Holdren, (Gilligan’s Island theme) and the rest.
The problem is that the Executive adminstration is largley composed of and supported by communists and variations of totalitarian progressives.
Bernie Sanders? Isn’t he the only fella in The Senate that’s a declared socialist (even though they put an “I” after his name on television)?
What the heck good is it to write a letter to him for an investigation?
The enmity between socialists and communists went out of style after Hitler committed suicide and Uncle Joe kicked the bucket.
…waiting to pipe Van Jones ashore.
Fixed it … The Senate Judiciary Committee cannot declare anything unconstitutional.
because czars are above the laws of we mere mortals. czars had faberge eggs, we peasants have chicken eggs. czars have castles built by the peasants, we peasants have mortgages front loaded by bankers. czars have on call health care by the cream of the doc crop, we peasants have an appendicitis attack on friday afternoon at 3p.m. it’s lay down, take two aspirins and call me on monday. the gods like obama created czars. they deserve our praise for all they do for us.
On September 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pm, tarpon said:
This “hearings” thing is stupid and so is Kit Bond’s letter calling for an investigation. Bond should be in front of television cameras and in protest marches doing his best Paul Revere imitation, not writing respectful letters to Bernie Sanders.
“Dear King George, your redcoats are invading, do please see what you can do about it, old chap. See you at the club for drinks.”
Van Jones is the real version of Obama. I am enjoying watching the whole ObamaNation play out. At what point will we see Democratic Senators cross-over to the Republican Party. People are waking up, and even the Republicans who slept through last years election are beginning to stir.
The ONLY reason they are waking up is because we are shaking them from their slumber and they realize if they want to preserve their privileged status, they better finally start listening. If the people that actually care about this country would not have become as angry and vocal as we have, they would be the same worthless reach across the aisle dolts they have been for the last decade.
Glenn has made a stronger case against Jones..video tapes etc. Signing the truther is the least of it.
Glenn will carry the water for the rest of the so called conservative bloggers and pundits knocking themselves over in defending this commie. Jones has access to 30 billion dollars and the power to shape our power grids etc.
Maybe we need Sarah to twitter….
This fool is what happens when Obama can appoint dozens and dozens of idiots like Jones to “czar” positions without congressional oversight. I’d like to know WHO pays his salary, how much it is, where the money comes from, and who he answers to besides jugears. This “czar” business is skirting the law, if anything, and should be illegal, regardless of who’s in power.
If the entire GOP was worth its Salt they would be screaming blue thunder all day and every day about these Czars and why they were appointed circumventing whatever passes for a process these days.
Finally they are beginning to pay attention…
Would that that were true. The Dims don’t care about hipocrisy. We’ve seen their two-facedness too many times already.
bradley: We, the taxpayers (at least those of us who actually do pay them).
I wrote my congresspeople weeks ago about all these czars, I have yet to hear a response. They have been on vacation however. Surely their staff know how to google.
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Horowitz on Beck today, finally says obama is as radical as Soros, Van Jones, Ayers, etc.
The Obama communist/socialst radicals have a PLAN to destroy the American Constitutional Republic system. PERIOD.
I’ve been screaming and writing for a year and Horowitz comes clean on national TV….
I MIGHT sleep better tonight as this should be the beginning of the end for Barry Hussein Obama admin.
“…incendiary comments and repugnant associations made public in recent days.”
Is he talking about Van Jones or obamma here?
IMPEACH OBAMA!
Republicans will use the tiniest issues to pull the real issues of the day off the front page. The supposedly liberal MSM goes along.
A letter to the fox guarding the hen house?
When the GOP takes back Congress, they had better very well hold hearing investigating all of the cronies that Hussein has packed into D.C.
When the GOP takes back the White House (which will need a new coat of paint since it’s been tinted with communist red), the president had better outlaw czars altogether, and every GOP in Congress had better support the measure, or else risk being hunted into political oblivion.
If our R’s want to get us, go after rangel and all the others who are scum. If you or I did what this elected did we would be in prison for tax problems. This dc bunch have gotten away with things we could not do. Follow the money, and I bet it is ours. A tiny bit of our nation has the whole nation in their slimmy gosh horrible hands. Tea parties, vote and get our Republic back to where the Founders wanted and had vision for.
God please bless America
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Drudge has a red headline up – Van Jones says only white suburban kids shoot up schools.
It just gets better by the hour.
sdillard,
Well I guess this guy thinks only ‘white kids’ can get guns? This man needs major mental help. I just hope he keeps talking, it shows who bho is.
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What’s with the funny numbering on the comments?
jsmiddleton4 said: “Pretty soon we should hear calls for a hearings all all the czars.”
LOL. Is there room under the bus for all of them? Will all that liberal grease cause the bus to careen out of control?
“is becoming increasingly erratic and unstable”
Huh? He’s a perfectly consistent and stable leftist crackpot, and that’s why they hired him.
This White House is chock-full of consistent and stable leftist crackpots.
I would like to think that Mr Jones will be ejected. But if you threw all the cranks, crackpots, and criminals out of the administration it’d be an awfully lonely place.
NO, no, no! Let the man stay- use tapes of his speeches in the next election-if we have one. As the Green Fungus Czar he really does not do much and is fun to mock. Better a Clean, Articulate African-American than an invisible man.
Ho, ho, ho VanJo must not go!
Hey, hey, hey he hasta stay!
Too little too late, they should have been looking up these jokers last year.
As far as the voters go, I believe barry hussein and his coterie are the best thing that ever happened to us, because this is what it took to finally drive the moderates to see how fscked up these libtards really are.
Why is it, despite ALL the other reasons to kick out Van Jones and the other czars, it’s only when the “Truther” nuttiness gets brought up that any Republican has the cojones to say something? Does it really have to come to that? Wasn’t Jones being a radical self-avowed communist with a criminal record enough grounds to speak up?
The GOP isn’t waking up to anything more than the fact that the constituency they presume to lead is now going around them to do the job themselves.
I keep hearing Hannity cite the unity of the GOP since the last elections but that is a joke. I have no doubt that once a deal is close at hand and the vote is close, they will once again cave to the Dems by delivering just enough votes “across the aisle” to assure another landmark Democrat victory.
The only cure for what ails them is to replace them.
Where in The Constitution does it say that we are to have a Czar of anything, much less 37 of them? This is The United States of America, not Russia 200 ago, and we absolutey should not ANY CZARS OF ANYTHING.
On September 4th, 2009 at 8:20 pm, glockomatic said:
Most repubs are closet socialists. They are keeping quiet so their place in the future regime is safe.
The liberal press only goes along when the issues is so egregious that even they can’t ignore/subdue it anymore, thus proving it is not a “tiny issue”.
If communism/socialism was so great, people would be flocking to those countries instead of ours.
Whew! Downwind boy!
Sometimes it takes a catastrophe like a nuclear detonation to get some people off their butts. Those beltway boys just don’t see the world from our perspective.
They think we look up to DC and see nothing but rear ends.
Imagine that!
Looking at what this congress and president is doing, makes me wonder if I would vote for a George III/Lord North ticket in 2010. At least, they weren’t as tyrannical as this bunch, we have.
On September 4th, 2009 at 9:48 pm, jangar said:
One wonders if the Big O et. al. aren’t intentionally trying to go this hard and fast towards a USSA because they want the country to split up…
In the good ol’ 60′s Ayers and other Weather Undergrounders were trying to figure out – in a pot-smoke-filled backroom – how to kill all the gun-toting folks who didn’t believe in communism. “Gee, how do we kill 25 million people? Dude, that’s like, a big number.”
Now they’re older. Maybe they’ve read Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War; no doubt their Chinese benefactors gave them free copies along with those illegal campaign contributions.
And maybe the new answer is much simpler and more elegant. Instead of fighting them and killing all those pesky conservatives, seduce them to break away of their own accord. Pass a bunch of collectivist legislation until they can’t take it anymore.
All those pesky red states break away, without a shot fired. Big O shrugs; he and his have a century of power over a smaller U.S. consisting of all the blue states that love the kool-aid.
Meanwhile Mexico attacks those newly independent states (Texas, New Mexico, etc.) they’ve always craved in their Azatlan movement. Chavez, China & Russia helping them out of course. Etc.
Hmm. Maybe I should write a novel.
“But can the American people trust a senior White House official that is so cavalier in his association with such radical and repugnant sentiments?”
Ask the organizer-in-chief.
Apparently Kit woke up from his nap. He’s worthless and has always been worthless. I hope that someone of value can run against Robin Carhahan for his soon-to-be-vacant seat.
Ya, The Black kids are too busy killing innocent people in drive bys
I can’t help but believe that there is a ton of voter’s remorse out there. Even in the black community where 90% voted for this incompetant fool there has to be some level of, “Oops! I screwed up!”
However, we have raise up a couple of generations of entitlement takers this is what we get. Like sheep lead to the slaughter those that voted Hope-n-Change overlooked the obvious peril. The fact that Big O is a socialist was evident way before the election and everyone who voted for him screamed “raaaaacist” at anyone who dared to mention it. He is who he has and with who he did surround himself. Ayer, Wright, Jones, and I could go on ad nauseum.
The answer: vote them all out. Every single one of them. En todo. At every level. Then WE can start to rebuild this great nation.
And the guy says it like that’s more acceptable behavior. Alas, we poor neglected white guys. *sigh*
It’s a shame how many inner city blacks are killed on their front porches while reading their bibles.
I’m not so sure that will ever happen. Maybe in the burbs, but not in the hood.
Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
Why investigate only one? How about bringing them all out…Mark Lloyd, Zeke Emmanuel, Cass Sunstein, Holdren, etc.
All of the czars please. They’re all marxist/communist!
When are the democrats going to take some heat for years and years of exploiting black people, calling them victims and having low expectations of them. Watched Beck last night. He had David Horowitz on who said something so basic that needs to be shouted from the rooftops. The dying cities like Detriot, Cleveland, Los Angeles all have democrat city councils, school boards, local gov’t. All these years, and nothing has changed …. Oh, yes vote Democrat for Change. Good grief.
On September 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am, jbirish said:
That’s not the historical pattern, Czar and Communist wise.
You will be justified in calling Obama a Nazi or a Communist or whatever when he orders soldiers to shoot demonstrators, or shuts down Fox, or nationalizes oil companes. Until then, it makes you a nut.
And you just can’t wait, can you…moron!
I’m glad you agree that it is a matter of “when” not “if.” Of course, by definition, you could be considered a “demonstrator,” too! You constantly “demonstrate” your inability to use cognitive reasoning, You also “demostrate” your total lack of knowledge of the meanings of “fair play,” “liberty,” “rights,” and “equal opportunity.”
Your lifestyle idol, BJ Bill, said it best…”It all depends on what the meaning of ‘is,’ is!” Your views on democracy will never be the view shared by most of America, because your views are intolerant, repressive, and tyrannically obsessed with force and control.
The troll is also a broken record. LIbs/The Won = good, Conservatives/ Boosh = bad.
Uh, no, actually, lgm. When he starts doing that stuff no one will be calling him those things. At least not anyone in the country. Or you’re dead.
The point is that by the standard you want to use for recognizing danger, by the time you will recognize the danger it will be far too late.
You know Obama wants to shut down Fox. You know what stops him is not scruples, not his deep regard for the laws and principles of our Republic, but the limits of his power.
Your reckless negligence in voting for him anyway would be mindboggling if we did not already know you do not really give a damn about our country.
Roland said:
There are millions of people in the US who would love to shut down Fox. At least every employee of every other network. Wishing it would happen is not the same as working to make it happen, which is illegal. You have no evidence that Obama is actively trying to shut down Fox.
I don’t know this. You don’t know it either. You believe it because you hate Obama. You’re living on ODS, not evidence.
You miss both points entirely, lgm. Competitors and other decent Americans who happen to disagree with the Fox pov do not want to use the force of government to shut down Fox. They want to shut down Fox using the usual competitive methods ….. unless they are criminal types, of course.
Your failure to comprehend the first point bleeds into your failure to understand the second point. We both know Obama wants to do all kinds of things not allowed by our Constitution. If we were so insufferably dense we didn’t understand it ten months ago, his behavior with regard to Honduras proves it beyond any reasonable doubt.
Also, the reason Obama doesn’t act is because people who DO value the Constitution would stop him, just as they stopped Zelaya in Honduras, not because Obama has scruples about it.
Recognizing obvious reality is not OBS, lgm. It’s called ‘intelligence.’
Van Jones just went under the bus. Don’t let the tires hit you in the butt, Van.
Ding Ding Ding
Where was Congress when Obama appointed the first Czar? They should immediately investigated how this unconstitutional position was being funded let alone allowing it to happen with 36 now in the ranks.
The Republicans have always been a day late late on these issues.The first thing they should have demanded is Barry Soetoro’s birth certificate!
Now we have a Kenyan running our Government.