All morning, I've been listening to Joe Scarborough accusing the White House of politicizing the U.S. Census -- of turning over the census to the administration.
Naturally, he's been repeatedly insisting that the Bush administration never would've done such a thing. Yeah, as Limbaugh was trying to say the other day, the Bushies never ever politicized, edited, or tampered with important data. Especially the census.
Oh wait. From February, 2001:
[Bush Commerce Secretary Don Evans] Friday issued a rule that makes him the final arbiter over the hotly contested political issue of whether the initial population count is accurate or needs to be statistically adjusted. The move removes from the Census bureau the decision over whether to adjust the 2000 count to guard against an undercount of minorities and low income Americans.
Also...
Bush Administration Strips Census Bureau of Authority to Adjust Count
Fish in a barrel.