"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
But many, many officials, from relatively obscure advisers like Jones to the most powerful White House staffers, aren't confirmed by the Senate, and the suggestion that serious vetting didn't extend to Jones's level has raised some eyebrows from past White House officials.
Did he complete the WH questionnaire? That would be No! Nah, Michelle likes them, or Obama likes them ... or some donor maybe likes them, just give them a job. What an irresponsible jack-ass this guys is. I guess he was too busy, off thinking of important ways to commune with the children, or something like that. Please, wake me from this nightmare, now.
Van Jones, the Obama green jobs czar who resigned shortly after midnight Sunday, did not fill out the exhaustive questionnaireWhite House officials required of every Cabinet-level secretary and deputy-secretary position.