Purely political motives are the driving force behind the senate Democrats vote to block a requirement that next year’s census forms ask respondents whether they are U.S. citizens. The politically lopsided senate ensured the 60-39 procedural vote, making the issue ineligible for attachment to a bill funding the census.
The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding illegal aliens from the crucial population totals that are used to calculate the number of congressional representatives for each state. Vitter’s state of Louisiana stands to lose one of its seven congressional seats.
Democrats disingenuously argued that the plan would be too expensive and also said that it’s long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people in each state, regardless of citizenship status. And if that doesn’t convince you, they added that Vitter’s proposal is “immoral and divisive.”
The good news: ”A Conversation on the Constitution: Principles of Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation,” a discussion between Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Stephen Breyer, takes place Monday, Oct. 26 at 11:30 a.m. at the Leo Rich Theatre in Tucson.
The bad news: Tickets are no longer available to the public.
However, the discussion will broadcast live on PBS World, the 24-hour PBS channel from Arizona Public Media. Southern Arizona residents can access PBS World on digital broadcast Channel 27-3, Cox Channel 83 and Comcast Channel 203. The event also will be webcast live on the Arizona Public Media Web site.
Justice Antonin Scalia was appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan.
The U.S. Census Bureau has finally severed its ties with ACORN – a radical left-wing, government-subsidized group with a history of voter-registration fraud.
“We do not come to this decision lightly,” Census director Robert Groves wrote in a letter to ACORN.
The question is why not?
In terminating the partnership with ACORN, (the acronym for the disreputable Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), Groves appears to downplay negative publicity that the partnership will taint the 2010 head count. “It is clear that ACORN’s affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 census efforts,” Groves wrote.
Previously, the Census Bureau had defended ACORN’s involvement, maintaining it was but one of 80,000 unpaid volunteer groups that the Bureau hoped would be able to enlist to do the job the Bureau itself is constitutionally entrusted to fulfill. In his letter, Groves said it no longer had confidence that ACORN was effectively managing its partnership.
Read syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin’s exposé of this group last year in Blowing the whistle on ACORN, here. And here on ObamACORN.
Just days ago Seeing Red AZ covered an ACORN official giving advice on defrauding the Internal Revenue Service to a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. They were counseled to claim as dependents underage El Salvadoran girls they said they would be using as prostitutes.
The U. S. Constitution mandates a once-a-decade reliable headcount of citizens to establish congressional districts based on an accurate accounting of population. This is not a duty that should be ceded to unaccountable, agenda-driven, volunteer groups. This crucial duty is the sole function of the government agency and should be handled impartially.
During a Town Hall meeting in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA.) said there is “no place in the Constitution” that mentions health care or education, or even gives individuals the right to own a telephone.
Questioner: “I realize that there are a lot of people that don’t have medical care and it’s necessary for those things to change to help those. I think that a lot of people are upset, not necessarily because of medical care, though that is a huge part of it, but I think larger is what’s happening to our government. It’s being destroyed in my personal opinion. I am a government, high school government teacher and I have taught these kids the Constitution, and I would like to know specifically, article and section of the Constitution, that gives the government the right to run our health care.”
Sen. Warner: “So I take, I take by your question, I take by your question, I take by your question that you would get rid of Medicare and Medicaid or would you, are you, let me make sure I understand: You’re advocating doing away with Medicare, right? Because that’s a government program. I just want to make clear that you are suggesting doing away with Medicare? But one thing, listen, there is, there is no place in the Constitution that specifically says health care. There’s no place in the Constitution that specifically says education. There is no place in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution, there is no place in the Constitution that talks about you ought to have the right to get a telephone, but we have made those choices as a country over the years.”
This CNSNews report contains the video of the wild response to the high school teacher’s question, and the exceedingly odd response from Democrat Sen. Mark Warner.
Joining the Republic’s boorish clamor, travel expert Arthur Frommer, 80, says he is “shocked beyond measure” by the gun-toting “thugs” and “extremists” in Arizona, and is now refusing to travel to our beautiful state. In his blog, Frommer repeatedly raises the question of a national boycott of the Grand Canyon state.
The Republic used the word “thugs” in yesterday’s editorial, describing Arizonans who openly carry firearms.
“I not only believe such practices are a threat to the future of our democracy, but I am firmly convinced that they would also endanger my own personal safety there,” he added.
“And therefore I will cancel any plans to vacation or otherwise visit in Arizona until I learn more. And I will begin thinking about whether tourists should safeguard themselves by avoiding stays in Arizona.”
Frommer should stick to recommending cut-rate lodging and occasionally pick up a copy of the U.S. Constitution.
Upon hearing the news of Frommer‘s dismay, Mayor Phil Gordon rushed back to Phoenix from whatever trip he was currently on, to say he planned to call Frommer immediately and invite him to Phoenix to clear up any misperceptions that his city is not safe. “I want to show him the perceptions of what he saw in the news are not a reflection of what Phoenix and the state are all about,” Gordon said.
UPDATE:
What a non-surprise to find that Arthur Frommer is a longtime, high-dollar donor to the Democrat Party, giving thousands to the DNC and the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, John Kerry and Bill Clinton. Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, another committed liberal, is also a recipient of his generosity. ActBlue has also received funds from Frommer.
In an absurd editorial demeaning those who are legally permitted to carry firearms as “Yankee Doodle zealots,” the daily opines Arizona citizens should keep their guns at home.
Editorialists Linda Valdez and Phil Boas succumb to their leftist proclivities by calling supporters of the Second Amendment “attention-starved exhibitionists,” “wannabe Patrick Henrys,” “lazy,” and “thugs.” As journalists, they should have a better command of the English language.
Bet’cha they don’t care for the people speaking their minds at the Town Hall meetings around the country, either. The First Amendment is every bit as galling to these liberals as the Second.
A Wall Street Journal article titled Our Unconstitutional Census, tells of the mechanism behind the once-a-decade enumeration that will likely be responsible for California getting nine House seats it doesn’t deserve because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010.
Seeing Red AZ wrote about this October 4, 2007 reporting that in August of that year, the U.S. Census Bureau actually requested that immigration agents halt raids during that period to facilitate the count.
Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t.
Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country — including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of “loser” states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what’s going on.
As a border state, Arizona is among those that could see inflated numbers based on illegal alien residents that have the potential to make us a permanent Democrat majority. It is important to be aware of the shenanigans the fed will be engaging in, as disreputable ACORN census takers fan out across the nation.
Dr. Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau’s Immigration Statistics Staff, is quoted in the article as saying that the 2010 census short form does not ask about citizenship because “Congress has not asked us to do that.”
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