From President Obama’s appearance on “60 Minutes” tonight:

Mr. Obama said he would take responsibility for any health-care legislation passed. “You know, I intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, I own it,” he said. “And if people look and say, ‘You know what? This hasn’t reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25%, insurance companies are still jerkin’ me around,’ I’m the one who’s going to be held responsible.”

But this is another weaselly assertion. The plan won’t really take effect until after the next presidential election (how convenient). And it would likely be some time after that before all the negative effects and unintended consequences came to light. Medicare didn’t go bankrupt in year one.

Michael Moore’s new movie is anti-capitalism. So is he going to sell tickets?

What position did Van Jones, the White House “Green Jobs Czar” who resigned on Friday evening, hold that made his resignation necessary?

From the right, this is an easy question. We think pro-communist, anti-American, race-mongering, cop-killer-supporting radicals who have at least flirted with the idea that the Bush Administration knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks and did nothing to stop them should not be allowed anywhere near the White House.

In fact, the radical views of Mr. Jones aren’t fringe at all within the Democratic Party. This has been demonstrated conclusively in the last few days by the near universal unwillingness of Democrats, including leaders of the party and White House officials, to condemn Jones or disassociate themselves from him.

Howard Dean, the former head of the DNC, said on Sunday, “I think he was brought down … I think it’s a loss for the country.”

John Podesta, head of the left-wing Center for American Progress, said, “Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country.”

And White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, “What Van Jones decided was that the agenda of this president was bigger than any one individual. The president thanks Van Jones for his service in the first eight months.”

The NAACP issued a statement of support for Mr. Jones.

A look around the left side of the blogosphere didn’t reveal any condemnation of Jones, or rejection of his views either.

Van Jones fits right in to the party of Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi, and Dick “Pol Pot” Durbin, and MoveOn.org, and Code Pink, and ACORN, etc, etc. So why did he resign?