No census consensus

I shouldn't even be dignifying the wingnutosphere's mindless blatherings of late, but for me to expose them is more than just a hobby. It's a career.

The latest right-wing nonstory is the supposed power grab regarding the looming 2010 census.

If there's a power grab, it's certainly not by the Obama administration. The distinction the wingnuts keep making concerns whether the census director will report to the White House or to the Commerce Department.

Apparently, the wingnuts must have all slept and thrown paper airplanes throughout 7th grade civics. If they paid attention, they'd know that both are under the control of the executive branch, so it ultimately makes little difference.

As Homer Simpson would say: You don't know how big this government is! It goes all the way to the President!

If the wingnut brain trust is so worried about the census being tainted by politics, why didn't they raise a ruckus in 1990 when Mad Dog Bush vetoed a bill that would have made the census more accurate? This veto was politically driven - and it showed in the following reapportionment.

Or what about the many errors in 2000? Although that was in the Clinton era, Republican influence still loomed large. There were countless instances of small towns in Democratic areas being skipped entirely. There was one in Pennsylvania; one in Missouri; Supai, Arizona (in Havasupai Indian Reservation); and the entire Miccosukee Indian Reservation in Florida. The census counted zero people in all of these places, despite them clearly being inhabited.

My building was skipped - and it's in a Democratic city. As per the census website, I even called to have a census form mailed to me. I never received the form.

The media's cover-up of this political gamesmanship has lasted 9 years.

Furthermore, an activist federal court ruled that the census couldn't use a sampling method that would have made it more accurate, especially regarding the homeless and central cities.

Because of these obvious mistakes, the 2000 census should be considered null and void.

Amazing that the fuckheadosphere would have the nerve to accuse the Democrats of trying to juice the census, when the Republicans have done this very thing since at least 1990.