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To: Sully- who wrote (69305)	2/6/2009 5:02:20 AM
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Elections do have consequences *** Under-covered Story, Overwhelmed by Pork Bill News Kevin D. Williamson NRO's Media Blog Greg points this out: <<< Congressional Quarterly is reporting that the director of the Census Bureau will report directly to the White House and not to Commerce Secretary-designate Judd Gregg. My sense from the story is that this is mostly about political optics. Black and Latino advocacy groups aren't fond of Gregg period, and they're not happy about the fact that he pushed back against emergency funding for the 2000 Census. >>> Now, why would the president want to take the census out of the hands of the people who have traditionally handled it and into the heart of his political apparatus? "Political optics," indeed. Obama accused the Bush administration of "politicizing" everything—science, the Justice Department, &c.—but there's no way he's putting one of his token Republicans in charge of the census, because the census plays a huge role in drawing up congressional districts and the like. This fact has not been lost on the Left: <<< Judd Gregg To Control 2010 Census. And, Why Not Trade Lieberman for a New Hampshire Democrat? ... ...Did we work so hard, raise so much money, spend so much time sleeping on floors and couches, trudge through the snows of Iowa, toil in the barrios, to give a rightwing conservative Republican control over the 2010 Census when history has shown that Republicans consider the Census just another dataset that can be altered to suit their political needs? >>> We can be sure that if the census is to be altered to suit anybody's political needs, Obama is taking steps to ensure that things go his way.** CQ coverage here. cqpolitics.com media.nationalreview.com

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