No, I’m quite serious: since when?
This is all part of this little article (Glenn Reynolds summed it up perfectly, by the way) about Sen. Gregg’s real value to this administration:
MANCHESTER – Sen. Judd Gregg yesterday declined all comment on reports that the White House will strip him of his authority over the federal Census Bureau even before he becomes Secretary of Commerce.
Gregg spokesman Laena Fallon said all comment would come from the White House.
A White House spokesman last evening said, “From the first days of the transition the census has been a priority for the president, and a process he wanted to reevaluate. There is historic precedent for the director of the census, who works for the Commerce Secretary and the president, to work closely with White House senior management — given the number of decisions that will have to be put before the president. We plan to return to that model in this administration.”
Does anybody have a link to where the President (or the President-elect, or the candidate) talked about how we need to take oversight of the director of the census away and hand it to the White House? Note that the examples needed here would have to be from before Democratic special interest groups started screaming about the potential loss of gerrymandering possibilities racism; I get that they’ve changed things around now, although you’d think that if this was such a priority they would have at least actually chosen a director of the census by now.
The Bush administration would have taken that elementary step, you know.
Moe Lane
PS: BTW, Senator Gregg? Thanks for staying out of the debt bill debate. No, really. We’re starting to have a rep to protect, again.
Crossposted on Moe Lane.
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Steve Maley
The White House will show the same respect for the Census...
Steve Maley (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 10:25AM EST (link)….that ACORN shows for the integrity of the voting rolls.
Hell, they may even contract ACORN to oversee the process.
It will not reflect a physical count of the population; it will reflect how many people the WH feels live in certain areas.
After all, the Census is a living, breathing document, is it not??
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Since the census determines the number of Representatives
olsmithie (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 10:34AM EST (link)fraud in the census bureau could introduce irreversible damage..
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That's the whole idea. They just count Rs as 3/5 ths. nt
Achance (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 10:53AM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
Utah will still be safe - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 1:00PM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
2010 Headline: "Obama Census Counts 2,137...
Steve Maley (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 5:03PM EST (link)…on the Roster of the Utah Jazz”
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LOL! - nt
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 5:08PM EST (link)It's easy to find.
NeoKong (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 10:44AM EST (link)“Does anybody have a link to where the President (or the President-elect, or the candidate) talked about how we need to take oversight of the director of the census away and hand it to the White House?”
It will be right next to the links to where Obama says that he always knew the surge in Iraq would work and he supported it.It’s in the same spot where Obama promised to resurrect the Clinton administration in the name of change.
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Ex-Senator Gregg is supposed to be a sharp guy
olsmithie (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 10:46AM EST (link)but if he expected anything other than to be used for toilet paper by Obama, he is obviously not as sharp as we thought.
Come to think of it, if he even considered throwing in with this bunch of Marxists, oh well….I totally retract the comment title giving him benefit of the doubt, as being sharp.
His entire service in this admin will consist of being folded , spindled and mutilated. When you are dealing with serpents, there should only be one expectation,
you get bit!
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The days of being able to use the census
itrytobenice (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 10:48AM EST (link)for statistical analysis are over for now. Maybe the 2020 census can go back to facts rather than impressions.
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David Hinz (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 11:07AM EST (link)The ACORN sponsored voter registration fraud
that added thousands of John Smiths, Bob
Jeffersons and Frank Johnsons to the voter rolls
Will now provide names to the census bureau. This
Will provide positive proof that they exist. One fraud
Washes the other.
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that is what I was thinking - don't forget in the porkulus bill big $$$'s to ACORN probably to fund their "Census" work!!!
Elizabeth Christian (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 1:00PM EST (link)n/t
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Nothing but shock and horror on my face
char (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 11:32AM EST (link)The census is an institution enshrined in the constitution. On the plus side, if they mess this up it will be easy to spot the differences and will be a HUGE embarrassment.
The citizens should sue Obama
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 11:36AM EST (link)He cannot do this.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
I can hear cement mixers
NickDeringer (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 11:49AM EST (link)The Dems are cementing their majority with this (gerrymandering), the unions (card check) and the environmental lobby(etc.).
Let’s be honest, Obama is a fast talking Chicago politician.
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This is probably a jobs program for ACORN
char (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 12:07PM EST (link)They will use ACORN members wherever possible to conduct the census. I’d doubt that they can mess this up, statistically it would be far too easy to spot. Scary as hell that the Obama administration wants to control this.
ACORN community
smitch61 Saturday, February 7th at 12:08PM EST (link)This is exactly why acorn is and will continue to be an issue.. The constitution states the census bureau will be overseen by the commerce dept.
Err, no. It doesn't.
Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 12:25PM EST (link)Interesting email address, too.
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HappyBunny Saturday, February 7th at 1:07PM EST (link)You should read it before you comment on it. Or comment on it in places where people haven’t read it. Like Dkos, HuffPo or any Democratic forum.
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Look at this article I found from 2000 census - we ain't seen nothing yet
Elizabeth Christian (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 1:12PM EST (link)just imagine when ACORN gets involved!!!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17910
‘Constitution is stupid,’ argues Census worker
Michigan family decries abuse by ‘Cens-less’ Bureau employee
“I was appalled at his belligerence. I felt as if I were under attack,” Carey told WND. “It’s sad and scary that an apparently educated young American representing our government could show such contempt for our Constitution. Think of the countless men who died defending those ideals. It’s sick.”
But it gets even more scary how in 2000 this article looked into the future to 2009 with Obama in charge:
“What scared me about the whole incident was how totally indoctrinated this kid was,” reflected Balogh. “This is the same type of person who would think nothing of going door-to-door confiscating firearms if instructed. It was a chilling experience.”
and
“At first, he tried to convince us that all of these intrusive questions were outlined in the Constitution,” she added. “If we had been at my house, I could have pulled out my copy of the Constitution and asked him to show me where it states that the federal government has the right to know how many bathrooms I have, or what time my husband leaves for work in the morning.”
The census is about representatives but also TAX $$$!!!
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
~Benjamin Franklin
Cooking the Census Books
tfolsen Saturday, February 7th at 6:47PM EST (link)Let’s be clear about the incentives to “cook” the Census. Why is it worth BHO’s time to interfere?
First, by overstating minorities, homeless, (illegal) immigrants, etc. BHO ensures that disproportionate federal grant funds continue to flow to Dem strongholds on the coasts, in the northeast and the upper midwest. Many of the most important federal dollars are allocated by population, or by targeted subgroups within the overall population.
Second, by overstating the population in the northeast and upper midwest — mostly blue states, as we know — BHO might forestall the loss of Congressional seats in the redistricting that follows each decennial Census. Without BHO’s probable fraud, seats would almost certainly be lost in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York…and gained in Texas, Arizona or other red states.
TFO
I don't see how he gets away with this
char (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 7:29PM EST (link)Maybe he can convince courts to use census data for redistricting, but it will be clear to all that the emperor has no clothes to people who actually use this data for things in the real world. Too many people do to much math and research with census data. Too many projections of population loss would be amiss. It would be clear to all that something was totally wrong. Maybe he can get a left leaning court appointee to sign off on say Michigan not having population loss but to everyone else it would be obvious that the books had been cooked. This still scares the hell out of me that he would try something like this. This is a bald faced attempt to hold onto house seats that would be moving to the south from places like CA, NY, MI, PA.
Can the Supreme Court do anything about this?
scarlos (Diary) Saturday, February 7th at 7:00PM EST (link)just a thought.
Socialism is Oligarchy in disguise
5,026
steveegg Sunday, February 8th at 11:35AM EST (link)I just did some back-of-the-spreadsheet numbers using the 2000 and 2008 Census Bureau estimates, and that is the projected difference between South Carolina picking up a House seat/Electoral College vote and Oregon picking up a House seat/Electoral College vote. Shockingly (at least in the Louis Renault sense), South Carolina, and thus the Republicans, were in the drivers’ seat prior to the change, and now Oregon and the Democrats are.
replace the word re-evaluate with the word "rig"
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, February 9th at 12:58AM EST (link)then you got it…. I know I state the obvious….
They will, no doubt, use the same Computer Models to pad Democrat areas as they do for Climate Modeling to prove (lol) Global Warming ….
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