This is a stunning story that is receiving little to no mainstream media coverage outside of Fox News. Obama has moved the operations for the U.S. Census into the White House, and essentially handed the reigns of the project to none other than his Chief of Staff, Chicago insider Rahm Emanuel.
If this had happened under Bush’s watch, the equivalent would have been putting Karl Rove in charge of redistricting. I’m sure the media would have had a field day on that; it would have been the lead story for weeks. But, since it’s King Obama and he’s giving it to his corrupt little minions, it’s all OK.
Dear Leader would never lead us wrong, the media will say. It’s just fine if his cronies redistrict every state into absurd zigzags in order to take over an uncountable number of battleground districts by moving Democratic-voting population centers within their boundaries.
After all, it’s all part of Comrade Obama’s plan for America. It’s Change We Can Believe In.
The GOP wants to use exact headcounts of districts. The Democrats want to use some convoluted process of sampling and estimating. The Constitution mandates exact headcounts.
How hard is this to understand?
The Census Bureau does not need to be politically affiliated. It needs to be have an unbiased look at the population, and should not be wielded as a tool to affect future elections.
GOP Minority Leader John Boehner agrees with me:
“I am disturbed by reports that control of the traditionally nonpartisan Census Bureau is being stripped from the Commerce Department and placed with the White House staff. This action appears to be motivated by politics, rather than the interests of our country, and the burden will be on the new administration to prove otherwise during Senator Gregg’s confirmation hearings. The United States Census should remain independent of politics; it should not be directed by political operatives working out of the White House.”
A lifetime Chicago politician who sends dead fish in the mail to his political enemies, now in charge of shaping how hundreds of millions of American citizens are represented in Congress? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Gee, why would this be such a priority? I don’t know, maybe the fact that the Census will have a MONSTROUS impact on voting results? Redistricting could enable the Democrats to massacre the current district setup and steal innumerable districts from the Republicans.
After The Obamessiah appointed Gregg to the Commerce Secretary post in an attempt to ruin the GOP Senate count and it didn’t work, he needed to find some way to gain political power out of the situation. Enter the Obamacensus, which, under the watchful eye of Rahm Emanuel, should provide the Democrats with a rather large chance to increase their seats in 2010 without having to fire a single shot.
