Affirmative Vetting For Liberals

Terrific. So, Obama hires people to work on the taxpayer's dime with less scrutiny than your average gas station.

But many, many officials, from relatively obscure advisers like Jones to the most powerful White House staffers, aren't confirmed by the Senate, and the suggestion that serious vetting didn't extend to Jones's level has raised some eyebrows from past White House officials.

Did he complete the WH questionnaire? That would be No! Nah, Michelle likes them, or Obama likes them ... or some donor maybe likes them, just give them a job. What an irresponsible jack-ass this guys is. I guess he was too busy, off thinking of important ways to commune with the children, or something like that. Please, wake me from this nightmare, now.

Van Jones, the Obama green jobs czar who resigned shortly after midnight Sunday, did not fill out the exhaustive questionnaire White House officials required of every Cabinet-level secretary and deputy-secretary position. An administration official said special advisers to the president, or czars, are not required to fill out the questionnaire that runs 7 pages and contains 63 questions.

We've got an inexperienced clown out of Chicago who couldn't run a grocery store and has never held a job running the government. He's running deficits in the trillions, likely going to ensure the loss of one, if not two wars. But, it's all good. He wants to make America more fair and more free.

Maybe we can agree to build him a library and just send him home now before it's too late.

Comments

[John Eden]

"Van Jones' issues would probably have been flagged if he had simply been looking for a date on E-Harmony or Match.Com"

But it was a match made in heaven for the Obama administration.

[BJM]

WH ass covering BS, the Secret Service & FBI vetted Jones throughly as they do all persons who may or will have access to POTUS space.

A top level WH operative received Jones's dossier and approved his clearance.

[FeFe]

I seem to recall something about the Clinton State Dept workers being upset that background checks were being short changed for workers in our embassies or people wanting visas to work in foreign embassies here? I can't find it. Sound familiar? Van Jones, answer your phone.

[SallyVee]

"We've got an inexperienced clown out of Chicago who couldn't run a grocery store and has never held a job running the government. He's running deficits in the trillions, likely going to ensure the loss of one, if not two wars. But, it's all good. He wants to make America more fair and more free.

Maybe we can agree to build him a library and just send him home now before it's too late."

Bravo, that is really all there is to say... and we're going to be repeating it over and over and over and over and over for the next three dreary and terrifying years.

[Reaganite Republican]

All this reminds me of yet another similarity between our Dear Leader and Adolf Hitler.

A documentary I saw once said that Hitler always favored those who proposed the most RADICAL solution to any problem... even if he didn't adopt their suggestion, he looked kindly upon those underlings who thought in this way... like his foriegn minister von Ribbentrop.

While Mussolini was quoted as saying "you only have to look at the shape of his head to see that he has a small brain"- and other leading Nazis couldn't stand him, Hitler liked him because he had nutty ideas, basically. The Fuhrer said "with Ribbentrop, it is so easy"- others come scared, and need to be pumped up to take action... but with him, "I need to give brakes... much better".

And Obama loves these full-on loons like Rahmbo and Jones above all... just like he respects tin-pot dictators instead of our actual allies. It's like a Twilight Zone episode with this narcissistic con artist in the White House... and the wait til Jan 2013 is going to seem like 10 yrs... before we finally get him out of there.

[Peg C.]

You know, Michelle picking appointees and czars would explain a lot. In fact it would explain almost everything. She is astonishingly anti-American in her self-professed views. I bet she and Jarrett are thick as thieves. Any number of former First Ladies are spinning in their graves now.

Reaganite Republican, the past 7-1/2 months have already felt like 10 years. What will the next 3+ feel like?!

I'm going to want the Men in Black Memory Wiper after this.

[WBestPresidentEver]

OBAMA IS A SICK MAN. TOO MUCH POT AND TOO MUCH COKE BURNT UP HIS BRAIN CELLS.NOW WE KNOW WHY HE REFUSES TO RELEASE HIS SCHOOL RECORDS.
He did not do as well as one might think.
The next 3 years are going to be rough but I know we will survive. We always have.
I just hope he does not do too much damage that can't be undone.
God Bless America.
I never have quite figured out what kind of hope and change America needs and for what. We have done quite well unitl this fool came onto the scene.

[notace]

Van Jones did fill out that questionnaire, and he lied on it.

The administration spokesman has misled the FoxNews reporter with a slyly worded answer to the question:

Question: Did Van Jones fill out the standard White House vetting questionaire?
Answer: Special advisers to the president, or czars, are not required to fill out the questionnaire.

Astute lawyers will, of course, see that answer as not responsive to the question asked.

He filled it out. He lied on the form. To the FBI.

And that's a felony.

[Xerocky]

Look, all of this vetting isn't all that hard to do... these statements are widely known, they're on YOUTUBE. It's not like Van Jones had to locate his long form BC or anything, this stuff, all of it, was already out there in plain sight.

Obama didn't think anyone would mind because the MSM's been calling him god for so long now.

[someguy]

Major Garrett's sole source - an unnamed administration official - is lying to him to protect Van Jones, who committed a felony when he filled out his White House vetting paperwork.

If you file a FOIA request, you'll get the paperwork, but if people think he wasn't required to fill out the FBI questionaire, then they won't ever file a FOIA request.

Now would they?

An enterprising journalist would file the FOIA request.

[MarkJ]

"[Obama] wants to make America more fair and more free."

Well, if Obama wants to make America more fair and more free then he should do the only logical thing:

RESIGN.

Fat chance of that happening, huh?