Question Of The Weekend: Jones: A Necessary Sacrifice?

Will Van Jones, the Obama administration's now former green jobs "czar," be the first of many "czars" who fall victim to their past remarks? Or was Jones, who called himself a communist, who (apparently unwittingly) signed a 9/11 conspiracy petition and who called the previous president a "fascist," genuinely a liability to the administration?

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