The BS continues.<\/p>\n
I’m very tied up today with some political issues,<\/a> practicing my Klingon<\/a>, and a writing project<\/a>.<\/p>\n But I still have time to briefly point out what is going on with Bachmann.<\/p>\n The current issue regarding the census is Bachmann’s concern that the census does not ask if a person is a US citizen. She makes a good point they should, dammit!<\/p>\n Oh, and they do.<\/p>\n She is misreading the fact that a large number of people in her district are actually centrist labor-oriented Democrats who aggree that her machinations regarding the census are nothing other than repetitively boring wingnuttery. They will not be voting for her in a year and a half when she comes up for re-election, if the DFL party puts up a reasonable candidate. Which should not be hard. The BS continues. I’m very tied up today with some political issues, practicing my Klingon, and a writing project. But I still have time to briefly point out what is going on with Bachmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3677],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Xt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBachamann wants her constituents<\/a> to believe that if they fill out any details at all on the US census form that they will some day be rounded up and tossed in a POW camp. The reason she wants this idea out there is simple. She is linking a fearful thing, a thing that if true we really should be afraid of, with Obama, Democrats, Liberals, etc. In her racist, sexist, anti-gay congressional district, this is fairly easy to do, since the President is black and we all know that Democrats are gaylovers and feminazis.<\/p>\n
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\nKen Avidor<\/a> has the raw data for you, Think Progress is covering it<\/a>, and Ed Brayton<\/a> is discussing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"