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
OBAMA HAS ALWAYS BEEN A THIEF AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED. HE LIES, HE CHEATS, HE TELLS HUGE LIES AND SMILES ALLTHE WAY TO THE BANK.THERE ARE NO TRUTHS COMING FROM ANY OF HIS AGENCIES, YOU CAN BE SURE OF THAT. THERE FIRST COMMAND IS TO SAY WHAT I TELL YOU OR GET OUT. HE INTIMIDATES THE PRESS, LABELS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH HIM A RACIST, USES HIS BEING BLACK AS A WEAPON AND NOT FOR THE GOOD OF HIS PEOPLE. SO FAR, HE HAS NOT COME UP WITH ONE REDEEMING ACT. HE SHAMES US, VIOLATES OUR CONSTITUTION, ILLEGALS MAKES UP LAWS, CREATES ANY FIGURES HE SEES FIT TO PUBLISH, BELIEVING THE PUBLIC IS TOO STUPID TO SEE THROUGH HIM..HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED BEFORE ANY MORE DAMAGE IS DONE. WHERE IS OUR GOVERHMENT? BEST WE GO BACK TO STATES RULE AND FLAT TAX. AT LEASTWE WOULDN’T HAVE TO SPEND ALL OUR TIME TRYING TO WARM YOU OF HIS EVIL MANIPULATIONS AND STRONG ATTEMPTS TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS AND OUR FREEDOM AND OUR VERY PROTECTION. HE IS THE ENEMY!!
Quit talking about it and do something about it. Sick of all the talk and no action. Screw Harry Reid and stop the BLM from Attacking the Bundys. Impeach Obama and Biden and get rid of Boehner and Obama’s administration Start getting America back on it’s feet before Obama get us into a war with Russia. The way he is treating and cutting are Military a war would kill a lot of our soldiers and make room for the Muslims to take over America.
I thought this is “truth in action” wrong
He has not made but one correct decision in his whole stay in the White House and that was take out Bin Laden.
Time to end this rogue administration..no more talk, no more petitions!!
Obama did NOT take out Bin Laden so don’t give him or Clinton or his Admin any credit for this at all
No $#%&!@*
WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH of this BS???
Par for the course! He should be held in contempt and impeached immediately.
hes done everything underhanded