As if Van Jones’ “progressive Tea Party” — a.k.a. Rebuild the Dream — were not enough, the former green jobs czar has assembled an all-star cast of left-wing movers, including MoveOn.org executive director Justin Ruben and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, to help debut the group’s new “Contract for the American Dream.” Does the title sound familiar? That‘s because Jones and company have borrowed the contract’s concept, and title, from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Contract with America.
Rebuild the Dream’s leaders reportedly describe their contract as a “progressive economic vision crafted by 125,000 Americans … to get the economy back on track.” Organizers allege the contract’s debut will involve a nationwide day of action and an ad placement in The New York Times to run at some point this week. Huffington Post explains the premise behind the movement:
The basic premise of the campaign is that America isn’t broke, it’s merely imbalanced. In order to stabilize the economy, politicians should make substantial investments in infrastructure, energy, education and the social safety net, tax the rich, end the wars, and create a wider revenue base through job creation.“Many of our best workers are sitting idle, while the work of rebuilding America goes undone,” reads one bullet point of the Contract. “Together, we must rebuild our country, reinvest in our people and jump-start the industries of the future. Millions of jobless Americans would love the opportunity to become working, tax-paying members of their communities again. We have a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis.”
But what Jones’ contract, and the greater Rebuild the Dream movement may really be seeking to achieve is to fill a void present in organized liberal activism. While there is a progressive movement so to speak, it is arguably not as cohesive or identifiable as the Tea Party movement. Perhaps that is what Van Jones and his compatriots hope to attain with Rebuild the Dream.
It is ironic, however, that two conservative icons targeted for condemnation by liberals — Newt Gingrich and the Tea Party as a whole — have turned out to be their very inspiration.
Van Jones Quote
“Well the answer to that is, they’re assholes.” This was in response to a question about why Democrats are less effective than Republicans at passing legislation with a majority in Congress. Oh, he was referring to the Republicans by the way…
“Only suburban white kids shoot up schools; you’ve never seen a Columbine done by a black child.” Uh…they say those who are against Obama are the racists?
“The white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities because they don’t have a racial justice frame.” Wait….it’s those who oppose Obama that are racists, right? I’m beginning to forget…
“The incident deepened my disaffection with the system and accelerated my political radicalization.” Always a great reaction to being arrested for protesting…become radicalized…
“I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of… I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.” Land of the free and home of big racist brother- a utopia for Van Jones.
“To solve the new century’s mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.” Man, the racist undertones of everything this guy says is amazing.
Mr. Jones signed a letter sent by the infamous 9/11 Truth organization to former New York governor Eliot Spitzer. Now that organization alleges that the U.S. government is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, that it knowingly conspired to murder 3,000 American civilians. Not a quote, just friggin ridiculous…and they say the “birthers” are crazy…
“Right now we’re saying we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to some kind of eco-capitalism where, you know, at least we’re not — you know fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond excess and exploitation and oppression altogether, but that’s a process.”
And the grand finale, Van Jones reveals the truth- Al Gore did NOT invent the Internet!
“In the name of national security, people in the Pentagon said, ‘If we have one big communications tower, and somebody knocks it out, then we’re blind, deaf, and dumb. We’ve got to figure out a way to distribute our information system.’ So they came up with the idea of the information superhighway—for you young people, that’s what we call the Internet.” Nope, it wasn’t Al Gore, it was the Pentagon.
Thanks Van Jones, for being an easy target for us to show yet again that Obama lacks both common sense and real judgment. That or he agrees with you, Ayers, Wright and all the other radicals he has associated himself with.
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