Some will recall one of Obama’s first controversial decisions was to seize control of the U.S. Census Bureau from the commerce secretary over to the White House ahead of the decennial 2010 census.
Conservatives immediately rang the alarm, but their worries were dismissed by the White House and mainstream media. Now it appears their fears were well-founded.
“It takes something that is supposedly apolitical like the census, and gives it to a guy who is infamously political,” said Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) of then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
“Requiring the Census director to report directly to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is a shamefully transparent attempt by your administration to politicize the Census Bureau and manipulate the 2010 Census,” read a letter addressed to Obama authored by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC).
While Republican officeholders were the primary sources of statements expressing concern over the move, some non-partisan analysts were also unnerved by the move. “The last thing the census needs is for any hard-bitten partisan (either a Karl Rove or a Rahm Emanuel) to manipulate these critical numbers,” wrote University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato in an email to Fox News at the time. “Partisans have a natural impulse to tilt the playing field in their favor, and this has to be resisted.”
The White House dismissed the concerns of conservatives which were, indeed, unfounded insofar as they related to the 2010 census. But the fears of some that the Census Bureau could be corrupted by the imperatives of the political operatives in the White House was today proven accurate.
While Republican officeholders were the primary sources of statements expressing concern over the move, some non-partisan analysts were also unnerved by the move. “The last thing the census needs is for any hard-bitten partisan (either a Karl Rove or a Rahm Emanuel) to manipulate these critical numbers,” wrote University of Virginia professor Larry Sabato in an email to Now according to The New York Times, directions have come down to the Census Bureau from the throne White House to change the wording of questions on health care coverage so that they can no longer be checked against the past three decades of data.
According to the nonpartisan analysts and census officials The Times spoke with, this change will make it nearly impossible to accurately assess the effects of the Affordable Care Act has had on the number of Americans who have health insurance.The changes will, however, likely have the effect of showing a reduction in the number of uninsured. This will not be the result of the effects of the law. Rather, according to the Census Bureau’s chief of the health statistics branch, the drop in uninsured is only going to be due to “the questions and how they are asked.”
What do you think? Were the Conservative critics in 2009/2010 right after all?
Source: Mediaite
photo via Pete Souza/White House
With this administration when someone thinks that what they are doing is not exactly what it really is ………..think again……. This administration has NO bottom as to how low it will go. They do not want any checks and balances, how else could they possibly know that more people voted for Obama in one county than actually existed in that county. Do not let this man remove all balance from our rights.
http://article.wn.com/view/2014/04/12/Obama_Executive_Order_would_seize_US_infrastructure_citizens/
congress & the senate is in on it too!!!!! they’re just as guilty & most of the courts are as corrupt as this gov’t
A Fascist state like the one developing here develops whenever the extreme left (socialists and democrats and union labor parties) meet the extreme right (patriots and corporate lobbying). The pivotal point is when the dictator-leader declares martial law and has law-making as well as executive power to himself. This is all Hitler needed (i.e. the an Enabling Act of 1938) to ‘free’ Germany from a social democracy into a fascist state. Obama has renewed the National Defense Act to make the declaration of a police state more easy, especially now that it includes in wartime and in peacetime, or during civil unrest. With the NDA, the labor of citizens can be monitored to make sure that it is keeping up with the DOD’s needs (otherwise they can be put into forced labor camps to do more without compensation? is implied) and a national draft can be executed to sign up ALL able-bodied people (of upstanding ability, without being compensated and without age being a notable factor). SO, the next time Obama speaks about “FREEDOM”, think twice about what the true meaning really is hiding behind his secretive messages.
Impeach them all and vote for scoobie do
ITS LIKE WATCHIN “INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS”….NOBODY BELIEVED UNTIL THEY’D TOTALLY TAKEN OVER
bo is a hypocrite. The next administration will need to spend taxpayer money all aver again to get a TRUE census. Impeach the bastard now!
IAM SICK TO MY STOMACH OVER HOW MUCH I SEE OUR ELECTED SELLOUT HAS BECOME…OUR COUNTRY WAS SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDERS YEAR AGO AND NOW WE HAVE $#%&!@*ED OURSELVES BY VOTING IN A $#%&!@* SMACK BECAUSE…..THE MAJORITY VOTED FOR HIM TOO PROVE THEY WEREN’T RACIAL OR BECAUSE WE RODE THE WELFARE SYSTEM(I didn’t) BUT ALL I CAN SAY IS WE DONE IT TO OURSELVES AND NOW WE GOTTA FIGHT OR EAT $#%&!@*!!! ANYWAY YOU CUT THE CAKE ITS A $#%&!@*ED UP $#%&!@* MESS!!
How much can this poc get away with???????
some of you people are so ape $#%&!@* crazy its amazing