When I’m feeling low, I sometimes watch Eurovision contests or day-time TV to make myself feel smarter. You know what else helps? Contemplating the naïveté of conservative Obama-supporters. Christopher Buckley, John Patrick Diggins, Doug Kmiec, Francis Fukuyama are all smart people. They assured us that Obama was a pragmatic post-partisan who’d usher in a new era of gumdrop fairies.

How’s that working out for them?

Since his inauguration, Obama has announced a never-ending series of initiatives. Are ANY of them post-partisan? Instead, he’s boldly going where no partisan has gone before. His latest partisan power-grab is the U.S. Census, with vast implications for federal spending and congressional apportionment. First, Obama wants to move oversight of the Census from the Commerce Department over to the White House. There is no statistical reason for such a move; it simply turns the count over to political operatives.

Now we learn that ACORN, a group with a massive history of voter fraud, is signed on to help recruit census workers. What could possibly go wrong with that?