Van Jones['s] signature on the truther document [was] a mistake. He has acknowledged that mistake. The Republicans as assholes thing seems pretty petty to me. All in all, Republicans have done a lot worse things, illegal things, and stayed in their jobs. But, IOKIYAR, right?
Van Jones made some remarkable changes here in the Bay Area and across the state. That the White House was not there to support him is beyond unfortunate. [emphasis added --d] It hands a scalp to the nearly mortally wounded Glenn Beck and it empowers the right-wing extremists.
I think this last point is probably overstated, if it means to imply Glenn Beck is bolstered in any real kind of way by this result. Advertisers are not going to flock back to Beck because he got the scalp of a minor advisor. I actually think the prompt resignation takes the air out of this particular facet of the endlessly ongoing right wing deceptive distracting deranging phony outrage noise-making project rather than empowering them at the level of news-cycles in which they actually dwell, which is why this resignation was exactly what I expected.
[Updated: Although this does give me pause on the Beck Empowered Or Not issue.]
Of course, the larger picture that the work of the sensible left has been pointlessly deprived of a great public servant and hence is palpably diminished is also true, but that is the way we live now, and will continue to do, so long as Republicans remain a self-marginalizing rump of crazy lying white-racist patriarchal corporate-militarist death-eaters and so long as corporate Democrats demand we pretend this is not so in order to maintain the patronage of moneyed interests devoted to the status quo.
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