Post Carbon: Van Jones returns - Juliet Eilperin

On the prospects for a climate and energy bill:
I have a lot of confidence in the wisdom of people like [South Carolina GOP Senator] Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, and others, who don't want to see America lose out on the jobs that we will lose out on if we don't have smart climate and energy policy. I primarily look at smart climate and energy policy a solution to the jobs crisis. I don't think that either political party is going to be happy to cede the jobs of tomorrow to, at this point, Asia. The only way to have to jobs of tomorrow is to produce the products of tomorrow. [Note that he's no longer trying to sell the cap and trade swindle as the way to save our grandchildren from fiery floods; instead he's trying to sell an imaginary "green economy"].

Former White House adviser Van Jones lands new D.C. gig at liberal think tank - washingtonpost.com

Beck attacked Jones for signing a petition in 2004 from the group 911Truth.org that questioned whether officials in President George W. Bush's administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war," and for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration, both of which Jones apologized for before resigning his post.
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Jones described himself in the interview as "one of the most effective bridge-builders in American politics" for bringing African American and Latino activists together with union members, environmentalists and renewable technology executives.

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