Bob has found a couple of interesting articles. It turns out back during the last census, the Bush administration made decisions involving the decision that made it so the Census Bureau no longer had the authority to adjust the count. This was after this:
[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.
So if the Republicans want to claim that Obama is trying to play politics with the census, then I say fine, but let’s not act like he is doing some “big illegal move”. Bush did far worse, including trying to disparage minority counts, and not one Republican bitched. Why? Because they got more seats.
In the very least, Obama is being open and transparent about his decision. We sure didn’t see that under George “signing statement” Bush.