In addition to not being a fan of the Commerce Department in the past, President Obama’s Commerce Secretary nominee, New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, wasn’t a fan of spending a lot of money on the 2000 Census.
Especially given than Census undercounts tend to favor the GOP, The New York Times editorializes about whether or not Obama has thought through all the political ramifications of the Gregg nomination.
Good example. Texas is expected to gain as many as three House seats.
What if undercounts cost the D/FW Metroplex, or Houston, a seat, and a Democratic one at that?
Aha. In response to complaints from black and Hispanic leaders, the Obama Administration is pulling the 2010 Census out from Commerce control.
It’s a good political solution but a stupid bureaucratic solution, as Team Obama continues to make ad hoc decisions, often forced on it by failure to fully do original homework.
And, it’s another think, like Obama’s “czars,” that muddies bureaucratic lines of control.
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