Obama Moves Census From Commerce Department To Rahm Emanuel
GOP Sounds Alarm Over Obama Decision to Move Census to White House
"It takes something that is supposedly apolitical like the census, and gives it to a guy who is infamously political," Bishop said of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who would be tasked with overseeing the census at the White House.
The U.S. census -- a counting of the U.S. population -- is conducted every 10 years by the Commerce Department. Its results determine the decennial redrawing of congressional districts
As a matter of impact, the census has tremendous political significance. Political parties are always eager to have a hand in redrawing districts so that they can maximize their own party's clout while minimizing the opposition, often through gerrymandering.
The census also determines the composition of the Electoral College, which chooses the president. If one party were to control the census, it could arguably try to perpetuate its hold on political power.
The results of the census are also enormously important in another way -- the allocation of federal funds. Theoretically, a political party could disproportionately steer federal funding to areas dominated by its own members through a skewing of census numbers.
At this point the White House doesn't seem willing to say what Emanuel's role will be in overseeing the census, and White House officials say census managers will work closely with top-level White House staffers, but will technically remain part of the Commerce Department
Critics note that the method of counting can skew the census. Democrats have long advocated using mathematical estimates, a practice known as "sampling," to count urban residents and immigrants. Republicans say the Constitution requires a physical head count, which entails going door-to-door.
2 comments:
Now, here's an example of chutzpah: The Republicans didn't get their act together enough to challenge Obama for not being constitutionally qualified to be President as an Article 2 "natural born citizen" so Obama's White House steals the census from the Commerce Department against the specific instructions of the constitution itself -- "actual enumeration" under Article 1.
[quote]"actual enumeration" under Article 1.[/quote]
Ted - It is my view that the two parties are photographic negatives of each other. Neither are inclined to use the constitution as a boundary. They will do what is needed for POWER.
At the end of the day it is up to individual Americans to stand up and take away their NARRATIVE that they will attempt to apply to their justification and instead go back and hold them accountable.
I can tell you with 100% certainty because I have heard it that there is a faction of people in the United States that are willing to yield all of their trust upon the Obama Administration because they want him to succeed more than they seek to defend their own rights.
If the Census going into the White House means that a more favorable enumeration for their party is made then the ends justify the means. Case closed.
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