White House: GOP could win control of the House.

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Imagine. They finally acknowledge reality.

White House: Republicans could win control of House

Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:44am EDT

(Reuters) - Republicans could win control of the House of Representatives in elections in November, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs acknowledged on Sunday.

"There is no doubt there are enough seats at play that could cause Republicans to gain control, there is no doubt about that," Gibbs told NBC's "Meet the Press" talk show when asked whether the Democrats would maintain their majority in the House.

All 435 seats in the House are up for grabs in the November 2 election as well as 36 of the 100 seats in the Senate.

President Barack Obama will have a tougher time pushing his political agenda through Congress if Republicans make big gains in November and wipe out Democratic majorities in both the Senate and the House.

In the run-up to the vote, Obama is trying to convince impatient Americans that his economic policies are working and that improvements will take time.

"We understand people are frustrated, everybody is frustrated," Gibbs said. "Look, the president is frustrated that we haven't seen greater recovery efforts, but that doesn't stop us from doing what we know is right, instituting the policies that we know will bring the country back," he added.

Obama and his fellow Democrats are grappling with a range of problems and many political analysts see the election as a national referendum on his policies.

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It isn't often that the morons in the White House can even determine or admit that it's daylight outside, so it's actually rather refreshing to see them acknowledge this particular reality.

With any luck at all, it won't include Ridgefield Barbie.

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It's a seemingly small thing... with huge consequences: President Obama will directly politicize the 2010 census.

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Here, locally, we feel the impacts of the despicable act of gerrymandering any time we, as Washington State Residents buy anything in almost 98% of retail outlets in the county.

While the scum continue in this effort pioneered here for their loot rail/new bridge scam, the effects of their first effort at scamming the voters will be felt in perpetuity as they cast a dark shadow over what our votes are supposed to mean.

The problem?

The White House has just taken direct control of the 2010 Census.

That essentially guarantees politicization of the numbers. We will see wild swings in population; over-reporting of minorities and gerrymandering that will make the democrat squeals about Texas look like a fender-bender in comparison.

There is a reason the census has been in Commerce for decades. And there's a reason the census is now going to be directly controlled by the White House.

And that reason will do nothing to brighten the lamp of democracy.

Barack Obama

Census Director to Work Directly with White House

By Philip Rucker
President Obama has decided to have the director of the U.S. Census Bureau work directly with the White House, the administration said today, a move that comes as the Census Bureau prepares to conduct the 2010 census that will determine redistricting of congressional seats.

Under the Bush administration, the Census Bureau director reported to the commerce secretary. Obama is adding oversight of the director by senior White House aides, but keeping the bureau itself under the umbrella of the Department of Commerce, White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said.

After Obama nominated a Republican, New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, to head Commerce, Latino advocates voiced concern about him overseeing the politically delicate task of determining the nation's population. But LaBolt suggested Obama's changes to the organizational structure have been long in the making.

"From the first days of the transition the Census has been a priority for the president, and a process he wanted to reevaluate," LaBolt said in a statement this afternoon. "There is historic precedent for the director of the Census, who works for the commerce secretary and the president, to work closely with White House senior management, given the number of decisions that will have to be put before the president. We plan to return to that model in this administration."

The decennial Census is used to redraw district lines for elected seats in Congress and state legislatures, and is always a major issue for minority advocates. The National Association of Latino Elected Officials released a statement on Tuesday, shortly after Obama announced Gregg's nomination, questioning Gregg's willingness to produce the most accurate count of the nation's population.

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