Someone punk this joker, he should be in jail.
Posted on 02/07/2009 10:51:14 PM PST by Danae
By Matthew Vadum Saturday, February 7, 2009
With all of Washington and most of the media mesmerized by debate on the porkulus bill, little attention has been paid to what appears to be an unconstitutional power grab by President Obama.
The Obama administration reportedly wants the U.S. Census to be run directly out of the White House, as opposed to by a politically insulated official within the Department of Commerce.
This would apparently be unprecedented and unlawful because federal law provides that the Census must be administered by the Commerce Department.
Former Census director Bruce Chapman warns that no good could come of it. At his blog he writes:
Everyone knows that it is possible to organize a Decennial Census in a way that benefits one party or another politically. One way to effectuate this otherwise unpalatable departure from the Census Bureau’s two hundred year history of non-partisanship is to put the Bureau administratively under direction of the politicos in the White House. In reality that would be a sure invitation to cook the books on the highly consequential count of Americans. +++++++++++++++++++++ Snip
More at link
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Total WTF /wrist moment. Whats next? I don't even want to contemplate it.
They don’t need laws. They believe they are the law.
Little tutu boy Rahm is in charge of that little scam and if they think I am filling it out or giving them any into they are NUTS.
ping.
http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/2009/02/dont_politicize_next_years_cen.php
Bruce Chapman’s Blog
Yep and zer0 is wearing out that executive order pen of his. If that stimulus passes, it will change America forever.
http://www.discovery.org/blogs/discoveryblog/2009/02/dont_politicize_next_years_cen.php
“Everyone knows that it is possible to organize a Decennial Census in a way that benefits one party or another politically. One way to effectuate this otherwise unpalatable departure from the Census Bureau’s two hundred year history of non-partisanship is to put the Bureau administratively under direction of the politicos in the White House. In reality that would be a sure invitation to cook the books on the highly consequential count of Americans.
Advocates argue that putting the 2010 Census under direct White House control somehow assures a higher priority to its mission. This is cynical. It puts a priority on manipulation of carefully derived Census criteria. The only reason the White House would want to be involved is in figuring out how to add more voting power to certain states and groups within states.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/
Simply put, there is no excuse for this idea. it is not true that the Census Bureau has ever been under the direct management of the White House, and for good reason. Even if angels were in charge of the Executive Mansion, if the nation’s premier statistical agency were placed under White House direction the danger to public trust would be enormous. The Decennial count is one of the few federal functions specifically described in the Constitution itself and must be operate above suspicion of politics.
I was Director of the Census from 1981 to ‘83 in the Reagan Administration. I always was made to feel conscious of the sound public servants who had preceded me and, regardless of who appointed them, defended the decennial count. . I have known directors from the Kennedy era (the estimable Richard Scaammon) to the G. W. Bush Administration (the very professional Louis Kincannon). I don’t know anyone who cares for the integrity of the Bureau and its products who would desire to see the Census Bureau report directly to the White House.
Power flows from an accurate Census Count. Everyone involved for years has seen the count therefore a sacred trust. It must not be polluted with even a semblance of Presidential meddling.”
_Bruce Chapman
He tries to do this and he gets IMPEACHED.
Time for a lawsuit all the way to the Supreme Court. It’s time we stand up to this daily assault on our Constitutional Rights. Think we’ll need a full time lawyer throughout obama’s term.
Nothing even surprises me anymore. Every move he has made since even before he was elected has been a power grab.
Time to IMPEACH!
The key factor, and Clinton put it best...is that most Democrats want a “sampling” taken and then base statistics off of this...meaning you visit three areas of a town of 15,000 actual real people....and eyeball 900 folks instead of the 15,000 total. Then you add up the numbers and pronounce that the town has 15,350 (not the actual real number of 15,350). It also helps if one of the neighborhoods that you did catch....was Latino or Black or minority status.
The Constitution requires a full Census...and some suspect that by using this direct method of President to Census chief deal...a presidential order could be given to sample rather than count actual real people. The presidential order? Illegal, no doubt.
Whats curious here is that the numbers really won’t be coming in until the beginning of 2011, and stamped offical by the middle of 2011. If wrong...this entire episode by itself, will be the one and only topic for the 2012 presidential race. The Republicans will talk about various things, but keep this in the press for the entire summer.
If Obama had to do something extremely stupid and get lots of bad press in an election year....this is it. He will come to regret this one act...so early in his administration. This would actually be enough to bring down the idol image that he maintains.
If I were you guys....I’d just let this simmer, and let this guy do the damage necessary. He’s never managed anything in his life, and this will be the crown jewel to establish that fact.
Of course it is. Obama will skew the census if he gets the chance.
Thank God congressional districts are left up to the states or Obama would demand the White House draw congressional lines.
Hey folks, let nothing surprise you.
These Communists are going to do everything they can to
consolidate their power and eliminate all opposition.
We are their enemy.
>>He tries to do this and he gets IMPEACHED.<<
And WHO is going to impeach him?
>>And WHO is going to impeach him?<<
I’m serious. How could that happen? The Rats control all the ways and means to block any effort. Not enough RINO’s to even make a dent.
later
He is unimpeachable.
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