In Support of Van Jones
September 6, 2009 at 8:25 AM Leave a comment
To all the progressive Obama supporters out there: If you only read one longish article this week, read this one by Jane Hamsher over at Firedoglake. Seriously. It’s a must-read.
Money quote:
So where are the liberal groups in all of this? Van Jones was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Where are they? As Jeremy Scahill notes, I guess they have better things to do, like argue for more war:
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CAP’s John Podesta is also a partner in the Podesta Group, his brother’s lobbying shop that is representing Walmart against the Employee Free Choice Act. This morning on Fox & Friends, Podesta wouldn’t way a word in Jones’ defense for doing something no worse than what elected Republican members of Congress do on a daily basis. The message is loud and clear: incur the wrath of the right wing, and you’re on your own.
Wow, is that a way to encourage your team or what.
If these groups, if these liberal leaders, let Jones just hang there while Glenn Beck pounds his chest and celebrates the scalp, we have no liberal institutions. What we have are a bunch of neoliberal enablers who have found a nice comfortable place in the DC establishment that they don’t want to jeopardize, and place on the new K-Street gravy train that they don’t want to lose. Dropping Van Jones from their rolodex is a small price to pay.
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