Lately there has been much hullabaloo about President Obama's so-called "Green Jobs Czar," Van Jones, who, we have come to learn, is a foul-mouthed Marxist, cop-killer advocate, racist, and 9/11 Truther (a wacko who believes that the George W. Bush administration knowingly allowed the 9/11 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and perhaps even planned them).  Van Jones has not been shy about expressing his contempt for the U.S.A. and our capitalist system.  He wants to bring it down.

In short, Van Jones is an America-hating lunatic.

The conservative media, and even some of the so-called "mainstream" (= progressive, liberal, leftist) media, have been breathlessly predicting that Obama will soon be showing Van Jones the door, maybe as soon as Labor Day or the day after.  For his part, Van Jones has issued an apology for anything offensive that he may have said before being appointed to his position, and is now disavowing a Truther letter that he had signed some time ago, claiming that he was misled into signing the document.

I would like to think that Van Jones is on his way out, but I am more than a little doubtful.  Many in the media are marveling at how the White House vetting process failed to uncover Jone's extremist views and behavior before giving him a pass into the inner sanctum of the executive branch.  Sorry, media fellas and gals, but you are missing the point.  This was not due to a failure of the vetting process.  In fact, there was no vetting process!  Mr. Obama absolutely knows who Van Jones is and what he stands for.  That is why he chose him to work in the White House.  The fact is that Van Jones is not the only leftist radical in the Obama administration, and it is no accident.  These are the kind of people Barack Obama has associated with all of his adult life.  Think Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and ACORN, just for starters.

In other words, Van Jones and Barack Obama are birds of a feather.  Why would Mr. Obama, who has never shown any inclination to receive constructive criticism gladly, begin now to listen to those who are calling for the dumping of Van Jones? 

I hope I am wrong about this, but even if I am, dumping Jones will not substantially change anything.  We will still have a leftist government, hell-bent on imposing its Marxist vision on the American people, whether they want it or not.