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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (33404)	2/27/2009 3:29:09 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Apparently you were unable to digest the message the first time when you tried to cover for Obama: The Politicization of the Census Bureau is Not the Change Americans are Looking For No single word was more prominently used during the election cycle of 2008 than “change.” It was a rallying cry for both Republicans and Democrats and represented a promise to reform Washington into a more bipartisan and transparent government. That was until the wave of promised bipartisanship suddenly hit a sea wall called the U.S. Census Bureau. The White House quietly announced that the Director of the non-partisan Census Bureau would no longer report to the Secretary of Commerce as it always has, but would now report directly to the President’s Chief of Staff, and former head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rahm Emmanuel. This sudden and seismic shift may on the surface seem to be nothing more than a procedural change, until one realizes the importance of the 2010 Census and the political power that it will have to shape the future. The data collected in the Census will affect how more than $300 billion in federal and state funding is allocated each year to communities for neighborhood improvement, public health, transportation, and much more. The statistics will also be used to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and to redistrict state legislatures. It will also affect school district assignment areas and other important functional areas of government. That’s why the seizure of the non-political Census Bureau by the political structure in the White House signals a troubling willingness to insert politics into the process that it says it wants to de-politicize. This is nothing more than a bait-and-switch. redstate.com Virtually every person I have talked to that voted for Obama has expressed regret for allowing him to pretend to be President.