The big news from this past weekend was the resignation of Mr. Obama's "Green Jobs" czar, Van Jones, as Politico reports:

The resignation early Sunday of “green jobs” adviser Van Jones says as much about the Obama White House as it does about Jones – marking the latest sacrifice to the political gods after a long summer of compromises and surrenders highlighted the limits of White House power.

The departure – nominally the choice of a still-defiant Jones, who said he feared distracting from important business – confirmed Obama’s choice of pragmatism over confrontation and a belief that controversies sometimes are better solved by capitulation, a view that infuriates Obama’s allies on the left.

It confirmed that the real opposition party to Obama right now is the conservative grassroots that draws its energy from Fox News, talk radio and the Drudge Report, and often leaves Republican elected officials scrambling to catch up.

I would clarify Politico's contention that the White House is being opposed more by conservative grassroots than the Republican party. Most of this "opposition" is not partisan attacks, but simple revelations of fact.

The Republican party need not claim that Van Jones is an extreme-left liberal for reasons of political expediency when the conservative grassroots is already pointing out how he is an inappropriate choice for service in the American government because of his radical views which undermine his ability to serve the American people, whatever his political affiliation.

The second reason why conservative grassroots have the appearance of being the only opposition to Mr. Obama's administration is because the remainder of the mainstream media and liberal movement are apparently blind to the serious concerns raised by Mr. Obama's decisions.

Consider the complete media black-out (as of last week) on the Van Jones story by The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News and CBS Evening News. With allies in the mainstream media like that, the American people need conservative grassroots, even if they don't agree with them philosophically. In this case, the conservative grassroots was simply copying-and-pasting information publicly available on the internet.

(Imagine, for a second, if Van Jones' fixation had been, instead of considering 9/11 to be an "inside job", if he signed-on with those who claim Mr. Obama is not a US citizen - it is not hard to imagine the amount of media coverage that story would have received.)

As for how radical Van Jones is, the (growing) public record will suffice.

But now is a good time to remember who Van Jones counts as his close friends:

You are known by the company you keep, as the saying goes.

The outing of Van Jones raises still more questions about both the transparency of this administration, and the fact that these Obama czars (there are still over 30) did not have to undergo the careful scrutiny that most White House officials have to submit themselves to prior to being given serious responsibilities.

I would submit that Mr. Obama's science czar, John Holdren, is the next official whose previous statements and record require serious public examination and discussion.