Political humor website Political Irony observes that Minnesota Congresswoman, Teabagger and All-Around Moron Michelle Bachmann had been whipping up quite a head of steam about the EEEEEEEEE-vil 2010 Census. Republicans have a long-standing grudge against the Census, since it tends to break sharply with their fantasy view of America as a nation of small towns full of prosperous Christian white people driving station wagons, but with their overall paranoia tweaked to about 11 since that Kenyan Muslim fellow stole the White House, they are especially exercised about the idea that the government might actually want to have some sort of reliable headcount of people. Bachmann, as one of the most notable looney-tunes, has been telling people to not cooperate with the Census (which, I might point out, is actually a federal offense, although I doubt many people have ever been prosecuted for failure to comply) so that ACORN can’t take over the government, or some such nonsense.
But, as Political Irony points out, Congressional apportionment is determined by Census data, and Minnesota, which has a declining population, stands to lose a seat in the House of Representatives based on Census numbers. So if Bachmann’s drive to defy the Census bore out in her home state, she might actually lose her own district to reapportionment.
T’is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
