Wingnuts everywhere, please boycott the census! It means less federal money stolen from blue states subsidizing your red state conservative/libertarian lifestyles (full disclosure - I live in a blue area of a red state). It also means you will have fewer representatives in Congress. This sounds like a win/win situation. You get to "stick it" to the gubmint and the Socialist-in-Chief. And we don't have to worry about you taking over our country ever again.

Go, Michelle, go!

But I would love to hatefuck her. I bet she gives some good crazygirl sex.

I would be overjoyed if vast swaths of people in red states boycotted the census. The fewer people counted, the fewer representatives from those red areas. Yay!

Because, you know, the less people in your district fill out a census form, the more likely the government will think that they're aren't many people living there. So a representative will not be needed and oops, you or your job won't be needed either. So please, continue to boycott the census within your district! I'll help you make signs too.

That's gotta be the best summation of the 21st-century GOP I've ever heard.

Michelle Bachmann says no.

... but the three guys "chastising" her are a-holes too:

"Furthermore, a boycott opens the door for partisans to statistically adjust census results. The partisan manipulation of census data would irreparably transform the census from being the baseline of our entire statistical system into a tool used to wield political power in Washington."

Their letter really is just another opportunity to impugn Acorn and insinuate that the Obama administration will somehow use the Bachman-types' failure to complete the form to manipulate the census data. No, guys, the Bachman-types will have already manipulated it (to their own detriment) and the government will simply use what information is reported.

Wouldn't an MP this stupid be endlessly heckled in the House of Commons? Just wondering.

My god but she is stupid. I live in a blue area in a red state and I hate to think what damage her idiocy may cause to the services our state needs, if people are stupid enough to listen to her.

When is her term up? PLEASE make it end soon.

"Can you be TOO stupid to be in Congress?"

I think we all know the answer to that. The bigger question is what does this say about the people in Minnesota who elected her (again)?

Is just how stupid they are. What kind of idiot blatantly lies about something anyone with a spare minute on their hand can verify as false? Why don't the right-wing hosts of the talk shows correct such blatant lies, do a little tiny bit of looking at those inconvenient facts, find - in this case - question number 8, and bring it up? Do they have no interest in the truth?

OK, I know the answers - but still - how can anyone even watch something like that?

Shocking.

It is amazing what happens when you read the document before you comment on it, Michelle.

This is the same person who after being shown a clip where she says she wants an investgation into un-American activites in the Congress says "that's not what I said."

a perfect paranoid pair.

Please, please, let her keep talking!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and Sanford,too.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we hope it will be hers? If she gets enough of her constituents to boycott the census, it'll look like no one lives there anymore.

Please, please, let her keep talking, Sanford,too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I concluded a few years ago that politicians of both parties tell lies. The difference is that when Democrats lie, they tell puny, scurvy little lies that emabarss themselves, such as "I did not have sex with that woman." When Republicans lie, they tell great big vast astonishing lies that take your breath away with their grandeur and their scope. Such as "trees cause air pollution" or "Alaska has more oil than Saudi Arabia" or "FDR prolonged the Great Depression." Right up there is Michelle Bachmann looking at a videotape of herself and saying that she didn't say that. Wow!

Coming off eight years of Republican-dominated government in America, it's hardly surprising that an eager cheerleader for that government's mindbending abuses of power would be fearful of abuses of power by the government now that she's on the minority team.

So cut Michele a little slack; she's only worried that Obama's administration might disdain the rule of law just as zestfully as the Bush administration did. If Obama was as contemptuous of the law of the land as George Bush was I might be emulating her...

She was re-elected this past November...

And it was too close between Colemand and Franken.

But, I live in Madison, so suck it Minnesota!

Hateful, just plain hateful. Mean. Stupid.

...and she's latched onto something that will garner her alot of attention. Otherwise would anyone even know who she is? If she wants to turn herself into a professional nut-job, that's fine, but she should do it on her own dime. Her behavior is completely irresponsible and inappropriate for an acting member on Congress. If she wants to be Lady Joe the Plumber and make a public spectacle of herself, fine, but she should resign her seat.

Does anyone actually think that McHenry, Westmoreland, et.al. are urging everyone to complete the American Community Survey because it would save money on sending out field workers?

Do liberals believe that the American Community Survey is so vital to the administration of Federal social welfare programs that nothing else would suffice?

The American Community Survey is the most intrusive questionnaire yet devised by the Census Bureau and it is by no means anonymous. Every American household will receive this survey over the course of ten years and each one is identified by address.

If you refuse to fill it out, field agents will start calling, and they know you by name. They will continue harassing for you for three months, including banging on your door at night and lurking at the bottom of your driveway. If they don't succeed in nailing you within those three months, they will leave to chase the next batch of non-responders. And despite what the Bureau will tell you, the proportion of non-responders is huge -- far larger than the percentage of non-responders to the old, traditional Census.

The Constitution provides for a head-count census for the purpose of determining electoral representation, period. The rest is nobody's business. Information regarding whether or not you have indoor plumbing and the like are obtainable from local authorities who are certainly in a position to have that knowledge. As for the number of fertile females in the household -- well, that's just outrageous. It's questions like these that give government a bad name.

No, the American Community Survey is a huge taxpayer-financed program of intrusive market research that is freely available to businesses large and small. It's a gold mine for them. It's also worth remembering that the Census Bureau is a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce. That's no accident.

My time and my personal information are worth something to these entities. It takes upwards of 40 minutes or more to complete the survey. Pay me a few hundred dollars for my time, and perhaps I'll be willing to answer the questions.