Van Jones is at it again. Yesterday at the “Rebuild the Dream” kookfest in Washington, D.C. he chimed in on the debt ceiling negotiations, comparing Republicans to hostage-taking terrorists and accusing them of putting “a gun to the head of 310 million people”.
Chances of the media condemning such recklessly violent rhetoric in this, the post-Tucson era of civility? Zero.
I love how lefties love to gripe about Bush’s unpaid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because obviously they’re such huge drivers of our deficit problem:
Compare that to the massive unfunded liabilities staring us in the face from our entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare:
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