Van Jones, currently the White House "green jobs" czar, was attending a forum in Berkeley, Calif. back in February [a month before he was hired for his current gig] when he was asked why Congressional Republicans were blocking the administration's initiatives.
Jones, a former civil rights attorney in Oakland and author of a bestseller on the green economy, was appointed as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality in March, 2009.
"The answer to that is they're a**holes... [Crowd laughter] That's a technical political science term... And Barack Obama's not an a**hole. And I can be an a**hole. And some of us who aren't Barack Hussein Obama are going to have to start getting a little bit uppity." - Politico
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