UnConstitutional Census?
Should we be surprised that Obama wants to include illegal immigrants into the census so that the congressional districts will be created based on these numbers. Add to this that ACORN is helping with the census and the congressional districts will heavily favor Democrats in the House of Representatives. In case you didn’t already know, the white house has in an unprecedented move moved the Census from the Commerce Department under the white house. We’ll be lucky if we even have a true election in 2010.
Judd Gregg surprised the Obama administration by withdrawing from his Commerce job offer. But it shouldn’t have been a surprise. Commerce itself is being devalued in this administration. That needs to change….
But the real reason why Gregg pulled out is probably that he found there isn’t any real place for commerce in the new administration. With President Obama saying things like “only government” can save the economy, Gregg learned quickly he was unlikely to have any power or influence on behalf of the private sector.
The decision to remove the 2010 Census from the Commerce Department and give it to White House political operatives was a strong vote of no confidence in Gregg.
It wasn’t the only signal. On the day Gregg quit, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs declared the Colombia free-trade agreement was dead, too. “I think the concerns that (President Obama) and others have are still valid around that trade agreement,” Semana, a Colombian publication, quoted Gibbs as saying.
With the Census gone before he’d even started, and no new export markets to bring to U.S. firms as commerce chief, it’s a fair bet that anything Gregg did was likely to be ignored in Obama’s administration.
That’s why the Obama administration needs to rethink its exclusive focus on government spending as the basis for its administration, and start making the private sector a focus instead.
The current approach has been to use business and bipartisan Republicans like Gregg as window dressing. But no one’s fooled.
