AP finally picks up "Czar" Van Jones story

AP finally picks up "Czar" Van Jones story

but they had tinted it with thier Obama love, anti GOP color.




Republicans who have spent months criticizing the proliferation of “czars” in the Obama White House have finally landed a major punch.


Over the past few weeks, White House green jobs czar Van Jones has been accused of being a communist, an old lecture video showed him calling Republicans a—holes, and he’s been connected to a Sept. 11 conspiracy group.


With that type of paper trail, Jones would have trouble surviving a Senate confirmation.


But his czar status allowed him to skip this step: Many of the high-level White House policy advisers don’t require Senate confirmation for their posts. And while liberals have hailed Jones as a pioneer in the green jobs movement, critics have labeled him a radical — and he’s become a liability for a White House that doesn’t need another distraction.



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