Oh fer . . . Our distinguished US House (The People’s House!) voted today to discontinue the American Community Survey, a part of the Census which has been around since 1790. Why?

“It would seem that these questions hardly fit the scope of what was intended or required by the Constitution,” said Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), author of the amendment.

“This survey is inappropriate for taxpayer dollars,” Webster added. “It’s the definition of a breach of personal privacy. It’s the picture of what’s wrong in Washington, D.C. It’s unconstitutional.”

It’s unconstitutional? It’s written right there in Article 1 Section 2 of the document, you nimrod!

Pierce is trenchant as usual about this idiocy.

Didn’t we already have a Know-Nothing Party in this country?