Comments on: Bachmann Census flap creates stir

By: Will

Will — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:38:08 +0000

Tim,
How about the firing of an IG, Mr. Walpin, without 30 days warning to Congress or giving a reason. A clear violation of Law (his own by the way) to protect exposing ?????????

By: Michele Bachmann is Cens(us)less - Swampland – TIME.com

Michele Bachmann is Cens(us)less - Swampland – TIME.com — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:54:48 +0000

[...] much revered instructions. Not this year. Two-term Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is refusing to fully fill out her census form in protest that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a housing rights group [...]

By: bud dingler

bud dingler — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:58:47 +0000

whenever I hear Bachmann blather on, I think about my youth and that silly commercial about Cookoo for Cocoa Puffs!

She is just smart enough to realize that there is a Glenn Beck army of border line wacko’s with redneck bloodlines who live in the crevasses of Mn like cock roaches. Bachmann is hoping on the dumb redneck white boy votes to keep her in office and she just might be on to something as Palin appeals to that same Joe the Plumbers.Crack kind of persona.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:58:08 +0000

Once again, I ask, why don’t the true believers ever itemize the specific actions and specific laws that are being violated by the current Administration? ZNOFOB, just like Mr. Pecora, gave zero specifics.

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:57:38 +0000

I have not seen a public official as divorced from reality at Bachmann since Bob Dornan.

I applaud and defend her right to express herself; it gives the constituents she “faithfully represents” great insight into what she believes (which appears to be consistent denigration of anything and everything the opposition party says, represents, and possibly wears).

Mr. Pecora: I applaud you on having the guts to air your views in detail. You do make some good points, but the anger in your missive is unmistakeable. If there are any Democrats making similar points about not complying with the Census, or promoting other illegal activities, please name them, and I’m sure we’ll all be happy to condemn them, regardless of party, with equal vigor.
Keep in mind that some Americans (I would hope many) are not simply a member or supporter of a political party; would you be equally angry with members of our Armed Forces who vote Democratic, with firemen who might be Libertarian, with anyone who puts their lives in the way of harm to American citizens just because they might not vote the same as you?
A little tolerance, please. Let’s go after the jerks on either side of the aisle, regardless of party.

By: ZNOFOB

ZNOFOB — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:26:14 +0000

Pecora is perfectly proper.
Most Minnesotans would not know anything about constitutional anything.

These northern weenies are ready to vote in communistic leaning destroyers of our beloved republic, and anything not constitutional is against our laws. We supposedly vow to support or defend this document upon taking public office.

Yet Minnesotans, dumb asses as they are, continue to vote against their own best interests by voting in these communists bent upon the destruction of our written law system (constitution, bill of rights, etc).

It isn’t republican vs democrat, dumbass. It is the state vs YOU!

Minnesotans: Substitutes for Larry the Cable Guy.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:13:33 +0000

Can anyone explain why all the true believers write about “the law breakin that is occuring under this administration and Democrat members of Congress” (spelling errors courtesy of Mr. Pecora), yet they never itemize the specific laws being broken nor cite specific law?

Gee, if its that easy, then I’m “horifide by the horendus crimnal behavyour of Republic voturs” (spelling errors courtesy of me).

By: James J Pecora

James J Pecora — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:24:09 +0000

Dear Editor,
As a Michigander who suffers under another fantasy Democratice regime, I find the comments by people who live in your state and write on your blog about Ms. Bachman even more ridiculous.
These are probably the same people who voted for Al Franken to represent the great state of Minnesota and at the same time giving a nod to “political carpetbagging” as a way of life in the Land of Lakes. A move not seen since Bobby Kennedy paid his way into New York.
Criminality takes many forms but to compare Rep. Bachman’s refusal to complete a riduculous Census form as some tragic abusal of law doesn’t even compare to the law breakin that is occuring under this administration and Democrat members of Congress. When Democrats do it, it’s called a Protest. When a Republican does it, it’s a crime.
Minnesotans better wake up, eh?

By: blueJ

blueJ — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:19:18 +0000

Most completed census forms come in by mail. When they aren’t returned to the office, census workers end up knocking on the doors of some of the toughest cases – people who do not necessarily care to answer the questions. They may live far out in the rural areas – not another neighbor in sight, and many residents keep a loaded weapon near the door (my dad does). Or they may live in urban areas that have high crime rates. Bachmann has given a lot of paranoid people justification, mostly manufactured, to make the census worker’s job that much harder.

By: Mill

Mill — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:03:15 +0000

Getting it wrong, advocating lawbreaking though a law-maker herself, distorting issues, focus on the wrong issues and wrong answers …. no problemo. So as long as there are people crazy enough to believe her, support her, it’s all good by her.

Sad for citizens in the 6th District. Sad also for government that is reality driven.