One Down, Thirty-Something to Go
By Robert Ringer
In my August 29 article titled “Do the Walls Really Have Ears?” I made the point that BHO and his comrades in arms fully realize that the Democrats are going to lose a huge number of House and Senate seats in 2010, most of them by a landslide.
I’m mentioning it here again in case you were puzzled by BHO’s audacity in anointing communists and other radicals to posts that bypass the congressional vetting process. He knows that he has to get as much as possible in place – people, programs, and laws – before he is faced with an unfriendly Congress.
Unfortunately for him, in his haste to install the most extreme anti-freedom radicals he can find in unvetted posts, he risks awakening the shrinking percentage of independents who still seem determined not to believe that an African-American president is an old-school radical. It’s known as “white guilt,” and there are some who will simply never get over it. Fortunately, conservative and libertarian African-Americans are not among them.
In the case of Van Jones, everything would have been just fine had his ego not gotten the best of him. After all, his credentials were no problem. With timid Republicans not about to appear too harsh, no one seemed to have an issue with Jones being a self-avowed communist who refers to the political opposition with all the tactfulness of a street thug.
The truth be known, Jones’ number-one credential is that he is what is known in street parlance as a smart ass. (Sorry about not being more tactful.) Once admitted into the culture of corruption, Jones began to see himself as the next Jay Leno. When I was a teenager, we called it “showing off.”
You could just hear the Duplicitous Despot saying to Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, “What the hell is this guy doing? Didn’t he ever read Saul Alinsky? He’s scaring all those Americans who are clinging to their bibles and guns — and scared people are more likely to resist servitude.”
So, out came the BHO bus — the same one he used for his white grandmother and the good Rev. Wright. “Sorry, pal. I appreciate the fact that you want to be a comedic star, but this revolution is bigger than you.” Poor Van. Now he insists that he was the victim of a “vicious smear campaign” (read, telling people the truth about his radical views). He was so mesmerized by his audiences’ laughter that he didn’t even notice the BHO bus pulling into the White House parking lot.
So now Mr. Showboat is back out on the street, forced to look for employment. But not so fast. Americans have a bad habit of falling into the comfort zone after the smallest of victories. Now hear this Americans: Van Jones was just one of many cogs in the progressives’ Wheel of Servitude. Instead of congratulating ourselves on a job well done, we should be thinking “one down, thirty-something to go.”
From Cass Sunstein (“regulation czar” who wants to reverse current law so that a dead person’s organs can automatically be used for transplantation unless he or she has explicitly stated otherwise in writing) … to John Holdren (“science czar” who advocates, among other things, forced abortions and sterilization of the general population by putting infertility drugs in the water supply) … to Mark Lloyd (FCC “Chief Diversity Officer” who speaks with glowing admiration of Hugo Chavez’s “incredible revolution” and wants to eliminate conservative talk radio and Fox News by forcing them to subsidize their competition) … these guys are off-the-chart fascists.
Conservatives, libertarians, and independents have to fight the tendency to prematurely celebrate a victory like forcing BHO to give a commi-clown like Van Jones the boot. Instead, they need to focus on stoking the protest fires in an effort to eliminate all czars and force BHO to get the “advice and consent” of the House and Senate before bringing anyone new on board. Further, the aim should be to reduce their powers to carrying out laws that have actually been passed by the Congress.
The good news is that progressives are just as inclined to prematurely celebrate as conservatives, libertarians, and independents. From the day they took control of all three branches of the government, they have been outwardly giddy and bold.
Remember, Jones was adored by Valerie Jarrett, whom Michelle Malkin has exposed as the main benefactor of, and most powerful advisor to, both Obamas. But Ms. Jarrett let one slip when she said about Jones, “We were watching him … for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland”. So much for BHO not knowing about Van Jones’ background.
Even the normally calm, cool, and collected Emanuel slipped early on when he spoke his infamous line, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
As a result of all these arrogant slips of the tongue, you can bet your life (actually, this is all about betting your life) that Che Prez and his political guerillas will be very careful about what they say between now and November 2010. They’ll probably all go back and reread Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals and be reminded that old Saul had no use for big mouths and showboaters. In fact, he scornfully looked upon flag burners like Bill Ayers as “fools.”
So look for a slicker, less threatening version of the power-holding progressives until, and if, they are in a position to slam the door shut on dissent. In the meantime, don’t be fooled by their good behavior and allow yourself to get lulled back to sleep.
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in re organ donation per the paragraph referring to Cass Sunstein: organs aren’t harvested from dead people. In order for an organ to be viable, it must come from a living person. That’s one of the reasons why a death declaration in the U.S. follows a flat EEG vs EKG. One can be dead in the U.S. with a beating heart, but not a dead brain.
As always, your column is spot on…..
We cannot take our eyes off them for even a day.
Wow!
Robert you hit mark with this article. The “normalizing” of the president’s tactics have already begun.
Barack Obama’s speech this morning was all conservative and fatherly and totally geared to quiet any of us who may have begun to believe that he has anything other than the best of motives in his march to tyranny.
I have to admire the slick delivery. Bill Clinton could not have done it better.
On the surface it seems admirable that the president would take time to motivate students to do well and to encourage black fathers to take a greater role in their children’s future. But when we look at who Obama really is – a radical who wants to fundamentally restructure our country – the speech is amazingly hypocritical.
Thank you for staying alert!
Robert, it seems that you, like Glen Beck and many otherwise astute political observers are missing the bigger picture. That is, that Van Jones was a deliberate plant! Do you really think that Obama didn’t realize that this clown would talk himself into the limelight of bad press … that he was just a loudmouth renegade that got out of hand? No my friend, it was not in haste BHO instated Jones, but with deliberate planning! For what end, you ask? He knew Jones well enough to know that he would catch the attention of Conservatives and would be quickly classed as a radical and a communist. But the plan was to wait until it was ‘discovered’ that he was a supposed “9/11 Truther” before cutting him loose. This way, all “respectable” Conservatives (like Glen Beck) would, in a sense, be forced to further distance themselves from the “conspiracy nuts”, because if Van Jones is a 9/11 Truther, then not only must he really be nutso, but by corollary, anyone else who is a 9/11 Truther must be rather crazy as well, by association. It’s a twisted web they weave, the powers that be. However, eventually everyone is going to have to face it: 9/11 was an inside job; it could not have possibly been otherwise … 9/11 Truthers don’t claim to have all the answers to 9/11… they just refuse to believe any of the lies. And the Glen Becks of the world, by swallowing the big lies, basically negate all the good they otherwise do, by unwittingly siding with the real Establishment Enemies, the same ones that pulled Bush’s strings and are now pulling Obama’s.