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He’s baaack! Van Jones welcome on Capital Hill, getting cozy with Pelosi, House Dems

Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:30 PM EST

By Aaron Klein

The House Democratic Caucus on Tuesday hosted communist revolutionary group founder Van Jones just one day before he spoke to a student group funded by billionaire George Soros.

“Why are Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrat Caucus seeking out Jones’ counsel?” asked Guy Harrison, executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, in a fundraising email on Tuesday.

“They say a person can be judged by the company they keep and that holds true for the Democrat caucus as well,” Harrison wrote.

In September 2009, Jones resigned as President Obama’s “green jobs” czar after it was exposed he founded the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. It was also reported he signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

Jones was a featured speaker at a two-day national conference that began Wednesday for a group that calls itself Campus Progress. Other speakers include Bill Clinton and Rep. Keith Ellison.

Campus Watch is a “project” of the Center for American Progress, or CAP, which is heavily bankrolled by Soros. The CAP, reportedly highly influential in helping to craft White House policy, is led by John Podesta, who served as co-chair of Obama’s presidential transition team.

Jones himself is a CAP fellow. On the CAP’s board is Carol Browner, who directed the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy until earlier this year.

When her appointment to the Obama administration was announced in January 2009, Browner was listed as one of fourteen leaders of the Commission for a Sustainable World Society of Socialist International, the world’s largest socialist umbrella group. SI calls for “global governance” and a world socialist order.

Jones starting ‘anti-Tea Party’

As WND reported, Jones launched a new organization two weeks ago that seeks to counter the tea party while petitioning for a progressive agenda that includes “making Wall Street and the super-rich pay their fair share.”

The organization, dubbed “The American Dream Movement,” is partnered with a slew of radical groups funded by billionaire George Soros.

WND first reported the Movement was introduced using subversive tactics, particularly a hoax Youtube video in which it appeared the ticker outside News Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters had been hacked and reprogrammed with an anti-Fox News script calling for revolution.

The Soros-funded MoveOn.org admitted it set up fake identities for the alleged hackers and even released a misleading video in which a man, with his face disguised, purported to confess he was behind the Fox News hacking.

Jones officially launched his “American Dream Movement,” at a New York City event co-sponsored by MoveOn two weeks ago.

The movement has been described as a grassroots progressive group seeking to emulate the success of the tea party.

The movement, however, is anything but grassroots. It is already partnered with two of the nation’s largest unions, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU, who boast an army of millions of public employees.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka recorded a web video for the campaign.

Also signed on to the movement are the Soros-funded groups Campaign for America’s Future and the Center for Community Change.

Campaign for America’s Future was co-founded in 1996 chiefly by Robert Borosage, who previously served as director of the Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies.

The CCC boasts a board filled with radicals, including socialist activists.

Jones, meanwhile, outlined his movement’s policies in a Huffington Post piece:

Wrote Jones: “The steps needed to renew and redeem the American Dream are straightforward and simple:

• “Increase revenue for America ‘s government sensibly by making Wall Street and the super-rich pay their fair share.

• ”Reduce spending responsibly by cutting the real fat – like corporate welfare for military contractors, big agriculture and big oil.

• ”Simultaneously protect the heart and soul of America – our teachers, nurses and first responders.

• ”Guarantee the health, safety and success of our children and communities by leaving the muscle and bone of America ‘s communities intact.

• ”Maintain the American Way by treating employees with dignity and respecting their right to a seat at the bargaining table.

• ”Rebuild the middle class – and pathways into it – by fighting for a “made in America “innovation and manufacturing agenda, including trade and currency policies that honor American workers and entrepreneurs.

• ”Stand for the idea that, in a crisis, Americans turn TO each other – and not ON each other.”

“We think we can do what the tea party did,” Jones said in an interview with The Fix. “They stepped forward under a common banner, and everybody took them seriously. Polls suggest there are more people out there who have a different view of the economy, but who have not stepped forward yet under a common banner.”

The far-left AlterNet, whose board has included Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, summarized Jones’ new movement:

“The goal is nothing less than a broad ‘open source’ movement of millions who, via organizing, house parties, events, technological savvy, and electoral activity, will attempt to shift America’s focus away from the budget-cut mentality and the protection of big corporations and banks, to the human and economic support of tens of millions of unemployed and downsized Americans, including returning war vets and young people.

“We’ve been hugely disappointed in the Obama administration for not mounting a more populist, people-oriented challenge to the corporate and banking dominance of our economic system, which has resulted in both the bailout of the banks, and the obscene shift of wealth to an increasingly small number of super-rich Americans. Jones hopes to offer an answer.”

The idea of Jones’s movement is not new. The progressive group Netroots Nation featured a panel discussion at its July 18, 2008, convention entitled, “Growing the American Dream Movement.”

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