The audacity of this blatant attempt to take over the census so that it can be manipulated in secrecy is worse than anything the libs ever claimed Bush did.
If the census remains in Commerce, its procedures and guidelines are open for review by Congress. By pulling it into the White House, Obama has insured that there will be no accountability, no review and no accuracy.
That’s a nice change from what we’ve seen in recent years.
[Sorry - don’t want to go there, but you left it wide open.]
The Census Bureau should be transparent. I’m not sure why it’s part of the Commerce Department, but I guess it has to be somewhere. I’d like to know if it’s true that minority voters have been historically undercounted, however. If true, that needs to be fixed.
Since Humpy won’t return, maybe we can turn this into a productive discussion. Are there any plausible reasons why the Commerce Department would be more open to accountability, review, and accuracy than the White House?
I just wanted to quote this for the pure laugh value.
Cite that the move from commerce to the white house is so that “it can be manipulated in secrecy”? Or is this simply paranoid delusional ramblings?
And I claim that Bush presided over an unprecedented increase in your national debt, to over 10 Trillion dollars. That’s pretty bad, don’tcha think. (or to re-phrase, “don’tcha think?”)
Isn’t the Census just a database of statistics? Useful and constantly accessed statistics, but not really anything to get too excitable about, I would’ve thought.
I have to admit that I don’t know what that means. Do you? The staffers working on the census can be called in congressional hearings whether they work in the White House or some other building.
No, I don’t. I guess the difference would be an oversight committee, but for practical purposes I don’t know why it matters. The rest of the OP is so over the top ludicrous that I’m not sure Clothahump knows either. If there’s a real issue with undercounting, the president SHOULD get more closely involved.
Worse than anything Bush actually did? I suppose that depends on your partisan leanings.
Worse than anything liberals ever claimed Bush did? No matter what side of the political aisle you’re on, I think you should admit that’s rather hard to believe.
If Obama’s reason for doing this was so he could conceal the evidence that he was a serial killer, it still wouldn’t be worse than some of the things Bush did.
I suppose that’s an argument, but it’s a bad one. The Commerce department generally has a reputation for honesty and independance. But thre’s simply no reason at all for Obama to have anything to do with this, any more than if he suddenly announced that the White House was going to oversee tax returns this year. It injects politics into a carefully balanced situation and can do no good.