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
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Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. A Democrat. A Republican. They have shown America the way. The way out of our difficulties for generations to come.
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson
A Democrat
A Republican
They have shown America the way. The way out of our difficulties for generations to come. President Obama appointed these two brilliant Washington players to come up with a plan to make America healthy and wise. While letting people like me get wealthier and wealthier and wealthier. And their plan is really brilliant. It’s straight out of Willie Sutton’s playbook. For those of you who don’t know—Willie Sutton liked to rob banks. And when they finally caught him they asked him why banks?…and he said because that’s where the money is.
So that’s where they are going….Where the money is. They want to tap into the social security surplus and the ongoing stream of social security taxes—all that money that the people have been putting into the program for decades and will keep paying into it—to siphon off that cash for other things. Like tax cuts for the wealthy. Yeah job creators.
Every other area of government runs in a deficit. There is no money to pay us through those avenues—and we certainly aren’t going to pay higher taxes. But social security has a surplus—and we can spend that money better than grandma can.
It’s only a matter of time before the Washington politicians put Grandma on a diet…that social security check is going to shrink and shrink and shrink.
So…it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out how to make even more money out of this whole situation…and I, being the benevolent soul that I am, am going to give you a tip. Buy cat food stock. Fancy Fest, Meow Mix, Whiskas, Alley Cat—it doesn’t matter—all cat food stock is going to go through the roof because plain and simple, a vast new market is going to be created. That is all grandma is going to be able to afford to eat…when Simpson and Bowles get through with social security.
Obama is a muslim he pushs people apart not together
Evil at work.
putting all the kings men in place has been happening now for years, but we have ignored it because he couldn’t have gotten this to happen in the matter of a few years. We trusted these politicians for to many years and they turned on us like vipers that they are.
Liars figure….and figures lie……
how can you trust a nazi???? he’s proven that he is indeed our fuhrer
For some reason he thought he was elected King, But I say he is wrong and will soon learn his lessons the hard way….:(
HE SUCKERD ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR HIM SOME TWICE AND NOW YOU’LL PAY WITH A MUSLIM DICTATOR TERRORIST TO RULE YOUR LIVES.
You have that right.
He’s a Rag head with no clue