Posted on 02/16/2009 10:26:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the Obama White House over the 2010 census. That night on Fox News, Sean Hannity called Obama's plans for the census process "the biggest White House power grab ever," as his guest Karl Rove voiced agreement. The same day, House Republicans declared that the White House had "an unprecedented plan" for the census that "will taint results and open doors to massive waste of taxpayer funds."
It may sound surprising to those who don't consider the decennial headcount a red-hot political matter, but the census has become the controversial subject of an ongoing power struggle between Democrats and Republicans. And since the 2010 census will be the first in 30 years to be taken under a Democratic administration, the stakes are particularly high this time around.
The latest problem arose when Obama nominated Gregg to head the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau. Local Democratic officials and advocates for minority groups protested the nomination because they feared Gregg would not support efforts such as sampling that they think will result in a more accurate census count. The White House responded by publicly promising that the census director would "work closely with White House senior management."
It was a simple restatement of existing practice. But it was heralded by some liberals as a change in policy. The Huffington Post ran an article headlined: "Democrats, Minority Groups Relieved That Gregg Won't Oversee Census." Those reports, in turn, disturbed conservative activists who immediately condemned the White House "power grab." By Thursday, when Gregg bowed out, the GOP had launched a coordinated assault on the "politicization of the census."
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The 2000 census was under Clinton
QUESTION:
When was the last census?
How many years since the year 2000?
What party held the Presidency in 2000?
Not only that, but I seem to recall President Carter and the Democrats in Congress overseeing the 1980 census. President Reagan didn’t take office until 1981.
Oh you can’t expect someone like TIME MAGAZINE to use logic and understand that the election of 2000 was held in NOVEMBER of 2000 and Bush didn’t take office until Jan of 2001?
I mean we are talking a liberal magazine. Nuff said.
That would be 30 years ago.
I know I know, it doesn’t SEEM like 30 years ago. haha
The real question is why Democrats are so anxious to violate the constitution which calls for an enumeration, not a sample.
The real question is why Democrats are so anxious to violate the constitution which calls for an enumeration, not a sample.”
So they can cook the results-—just like Global Warming ‘science’!!!!
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