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(FROM: The Washington Post) Typically, responsibility for the U.S. Census has fallen into the hands of the Commerce Department. Now, because of questions into Commerce Secretary-designate Judd Gregg’s commitment to funding the census raised by minority groups, the White House has taken over the whole deal (gee, does ACORN do census-taking, too, or are they just limited to voter fraud?). Now, the idea behind the census, as set in our Constitution, is that the whole process should be as far removed from political winds as possible. That’s how our founders wanted it, and that’s why it has been under the scope of Commerce. Here, however, we have it now presumably in Rahm Emanuel’s portfolio, and along with it all of the downhill consequences which stem from the census at the start of each decade — including apportionment when it comes to federal spending, as well as the reapportionment and re-drawing of congressional districts from coast to coast. While politicization of redistricting maneuvers is hardly anything new, the hijacked responsibility for the 2010 Census seems a little scary to me nonetheless.
Tags: ACORN, judd greggs, Obama, socialism, us census
