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
When is someone going to do something with this guy?
In order for ACA to work its got to be single payer. Like Medicare. We’re not going to get young people and those barely living paycheck to paycheck to pay monthly health insurance. And get private insurance middlemen out of the equation!
He is great at fixing the votes on obammycare. He did the same thing with the 2012 votes. I don’t believe any kind of vote that he has anything to do with as they are all lies.
Obama and our Media. lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, and more lies since 2008.
Americans Died, Hillary Clinton and Obama lied.
Obama and Holder gave weapons to the Drug Cartels with Fast and Furious, and lied about it.
Obama should have been fired the first time he wrote an Executive Order that changed our Laws.
Obama should have been fired for the invasion of Libya.
All of the world knows our Drone Attacks and our Covert War on Terror in Africa and the Middle East are wrong and our Administration is committing War Crimes by murdering innocent civiians.
Our current Administration, our current Senate, our current House, and the people in our corrupt Federal Agencies and the monsters of our Justice Department want robot cops in our streets and Drones in our skies committing the same carnage and destruction inside the United States.
No Incumbents.
They have not fired Eric Holder, Joe Biden, and Barrack Obama.
Eric Holder and Barrack Obama should have been fired for their lies and the abuse of their Office after the Zimmerman verdict and their Harassment and Intimidation of Zimmerman.
Eric Holder and Barrack Obama should have been fired for their lies and the abuse of their Office after a white guy committed the Knock Out Game for trying to have our Justice Department charge him with a Hate Crime, the Knock Out Game is Terrorism each time it is committed no matter what race the Terrorist is, lock them away.
Our current Administration gave weapons and money to Iran and Egypt.
End our stupid War on Terror.
Shut down the Bureau of Land Management and the IRS.
Repeal Obamacare.
Repeal the NDAA.
Repeal the Cyber Security Bill.
End the Sanctions against Russia. The violence was funded inside the United States.
Shut down the IRS.
Shut down the Bureau of Land Management.
Shut down the NSA, EPA, CIA, and Homeland Security or take away their weapons and any power they have other than investigation, they can turn their information they gather over to State Authorites, the FBI, or the Department of Justice, they have become too corrupt to function in their current capacity.
Our government is not more important than the people of our country.
No Incumbents.
They have not fired Eric Holder and Barrack Obama.
In the United States we should have the Freedom of Speech, the Freedom of Religion, and the Right to own a gun.
Joe Biden, Bloomberg, Eric Holder, and Barrack Obama love Gun Control and War more than Adolf Hitler did.
End our stupid War on Terror.
Quit trying to start a war with China and Russia.
If NATO or the Untied States had any respect for human life they would shut down their military operations near the Ukraine and end their stupid War on Terror, today.
The National Endowment for Democracy does the work of our State Department and our CIA, they funded the violence in the Ukraine, with the blessing of the Obama Administration so NATO and the United States could work at starting World War III.
That was the same reason the CIA and Obama were supporting the Terrorists in Syria and the same reason the NSA, CIA, and Obama wanted us to bomb Syria.
Vote each of our Senators and Representatives out.
They gave us our War on Terror and since 2008 they have gave us each of the horrible things Eric Holder, Joe Biden, and Barrack Obama has wanted.
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Recall these people and convict and hang them for treason and Terrorism an the same for odummer
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Barrack Obama and Joe Biden love war and gun control more than Adolf Hitler did.
No Incumbents. They have not fired Obama.
This is bull and he need’ s to be removed!