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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Thank You, Michelle!

MN-06 representative Michelle Bachmann stated last week that she would not fully fill out her census report in the next federal census taking set to take place in 2010. She cited ACORN (eep urp bleep....output: insta right wing hot flaming anger) as one of her reasons. She went on to say that "between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up."

!!!??

Someone please give this woman a guest spot on every major news network in the nation. And let's give her that spot....oh...around the fall of next year:)

The story, of course, gets better. By failing to fill out her census report fully and by encouraging others in her district to do so, the chances are raised significantly then when they reduce the districts from 7 down to 6 in Minnesota, the Sixth will be the first one to go due to a not so real population drop because incomplete surveys will not be accepted.

So, if you live in the Sixth, please listen to your congresswoman!

5 comments:

blk said...

There are eight congressional districts in Minnesota, are there not? Or is Oberstar the representative from the Twilight Zone?

blk said...

My guess is that there's an underlying method to Bachmann's madness. The demographic handwriting has been on the wall for years now: rural white Americans are quickly becoming a tiny minority.

The census is the mechanism by which political power is apportioned. Since Bachmann and her ilk know they are going to lose their status, they are engaging in a delaying tactic. It seems they intend to boycott the census in order to render it illegitimate. Their thinking must be that they can delay their loss of political power through court action over the census.

For years conservatives have been fighting the sampling techniques the census has wanted to use to properly estimate the number of undercounted minorities. This is just the next stage of the sabotage of the census.

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123423384887066377.html

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gerrymander

http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/congress.html#list

rld said...

I'm so glad you geniuses passed that stimulus bill. I see it has really helped the unemployemnt rate.

Mark Ward said...

You are right, blk. My mistake...8 and in 2010 possibly 7.