Cause And Defect

With 2010 now here, you'd think Bachmanniac would be out there taking swings at her favorite government pinata, the Census.  She's railed against it and asked people not to participate (which is technically illegal).

But as TPM reports, Shelly's been rather silent as of late on the Census.  And the reality is if Minnesota does lost a Congressional seat in 2010...it's Shelly's on the block as Eric Kleefield explains.

The really fun fact, as I've learned from Minnesota experts, is that Bachmann's district would likely be the first to go if the state lost a seat. The other seats are all fairly regular-shaped, logical districts built around identifiable regions of the state (Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Iron Range, and so on). Bachmann's district is made of what's left over after such a process, twisting and turning from a small strip of the Wisconsin border and curving deep into the middle of the state. As such, the obvious course of action if the state loses a seat is to split her district up among its neighbors.

And lo and behold...she's stopped hating the Census.  Amazing how that works.