On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:25:44 -0800 (PST), riverman wrote:

On Feb 13, 6:08*am, Dave LaCourse wrote:
Can anyone explain why BHO wants to have control of the census? *The
Census Bureau has worked for decades to make itself non-partisan.
Judd Greg has pulled his name as Sec. of Commerce because of this.
Good man, btw. *

Dave

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123423384887066377.html

Because the results of the census have a knock-on effect on a
tremendous amount of social program funding, and in the past 8 years,
with the general 'science bends to politics' ideology, accountability
to the accuracy of census figures has deteriorated.

This one boils down to a Trust issue....if you trust Obama to work to
generate accurate and repeatable figures so that he can target
programs effectively, then his strategy of having the census folks
answer directly to him is a good strategy. If you think he's on a
misguided power-grab. then it looks like a smokescreen argument.

AFAIK, its pretty undisputable that ANY science or math that came out
of the Bush WH is suspect, so I don't mind that the census bureau now
has to answer to Obama...they will be extra sure to mind their p's and
q's.

The real test will be if he restores the traditional answerability
once everything is jake.

IOW, Myron is convinced that while Bush would have come in his mouth, Obama
would not only warn him, but be a gentleman and shoot off to the side...

Oh, yeah, "shovel-ready" becomes more and more appropriate by the minute...

Sheesh,
R

--riverman