Thoughts & Commentary on the Obama Administration

[Lemur]

I'm taking a look at what the Department of Commerce actually does. Why is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (including the National Weather Service) part of that department? Should I even ask?

Also, perhaps it's time for us to move our Obama discussion to a new thread. His inauguration was three weeks ago or something near.

If there was no need to worry about funny business, why did they change it?

Haven't the foggiest. I seriously doubt that the only explanation is the one being peddled by the rightwing blogs. In fact, I haven't seen any confirmation that the 2010 census is being "taken away" from commerce outside of the rightwing news sources. According to the Dept of Commerce web site, the census is very much in their purview.

If it walks like a manufactured controversy, and it quacks like a manufactured controversy ...