We’ve all seen the trouble he’s had filling cabinet posts. In fact, he doesn’t even seem to care much about it. He has nominated severely damaged people to high office, people who are handicapped by ethical and competency and credibility and personal problems. When one occasionally fails confirmation, he appoints an equally damaged successor. Perhaps Judd Gregg balked when he found out he was expected to be a Yes-man.

My own unprovable theory is that by putting such weak people into high positions, he has much greater power over them than he would with a stronger person. Secretary of State is NOT an exception. Obama has clearly decided to conduct foreign policy on his own personal basis. Hillary Clinton is in no position to act on her own; the SoS has become a figurehead in recent years, and we all know the State Department marches to its own drummers, who are themselves already in strong agreement with Obama’s direction.

Beyond that, Obama is placing his own far left-wing operatives in high positions, just BELOW THE LEVEL WHERE CONFIRMATION BY THE SENATE IS REQUIRED. The subject of your diary is an excellent example of this, as is the appointment of Professor Koh to State.

The resulting structure is one where committed leftists are in position to make policy decisions that would normally be reviewed by more mainstream management (veteran Cabinet Secretaries). The Secretary (see: Janet Napolitano) becomes at best a rubber stamp, at worst a willing participant in the subversion of each department. As weak as they are, they’re in no position to counter the moves of their subordinates, because those moves are supported by Obama.

I’m starting to seriously consider the possibility that Obama (or his puppet masters {shades of Bush Derangement Syndrome!}) have long-range plans to install enough far left operatives in positions of power, meanwhile damaging the economic bedrock of the country, that he might try to do in reality what the far left feared Geroge Bush would do.

If the Dems manage to pull off all of their schemes we’re finished as a nation.

The biggest opportunity for gamesmanship and manipulation during the census is not during the actual data gathering that occurs in the year of the census, but rather it is during the tabulation that occurs in the following year. That is when folks acan really screw around and manipulate the results. The tabulation of the 2010 census that will occur in 2011 will be the first one since the 1961 to be completed under a Democrat president.

That means that for the first time in a HALF CENTURY, Democrats will calculate how many representatives (and electoral votes) each state gets.

I’ve been called crazy, racist, everything under the sun.

If the census – which among ther things – is the determining factor for election districts and the people responsible for the census have absolutely zero intentions of ever relinqishing their power, then what makes anyone remotely think this entire operation hasn’t already been completely compromised ?

Next up for the 2010 census: Real and to-be-enforced penalties and prison time for not fully completing or submitting your census forms.

Expect some ‘interesting’ questions as well….. “Do you or anyone in your houehold own a firearm or any other weapon?”…….. “List the politically active groups in which you or anyone in your household are a member.”

Oh well….. Nothing to see here….. Keep moving.

I wish it said “of citizens.” Maybe if they stopped counting illegals and it cost them funds, those sanctuary cities would get serious about the illegal immigrant problem.