Uh Oh. Now We've Done It.

Van Jones has resigned.

Jones, a towering figure* in the environmental movement, had worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality since March. He was a civil-rights activist in California before turning his focus to environmental and energy issues, and he won wide praise before joining the Obama administration for articulating a broad vision of a green economy Democrats could embrace.

That vision was thoroughly steeped in racism and wild historical and factual inaccuracies. Well, forcing him to resign might just be the straw that broke the camel's back. Jones could shift from being a Maoist to a Trotskyite and use his newfound practical knowledge of the corridors of power to found a follow on to STORM**.

We may all come to rue this day.

While he's earning minimum wage mowing lawns, you better believe he'll be organizing. Oh yes. Organizing. Lots and lots of organizing.
* - A towering figure?!? Authors Garance Franke-Ruta and Anne E. Kornblut and staff writer Juliet Eilperin might want to polish their resumes a bit more. It's doubtful that anyone who considers this racist crackpot to be a towering figure in anything is going to land a decent job once their dinosaur print media jobs come to an end.

** - It could be the Committee to Organize a National United Front for Organizing Committees to Bring Unity to the People Who Organize National Revolutionary Movement Committees. Who knows? The possiblities are endless.