"Have you noticed that the House of Representatives
is in the hands of paste-eating morons?"
Now that is an introductory sentence! 
Charlie Pierce does it again:
The House has decided that census means counting the people one-two-three and that anything else is a violation of FREEEEDDOOOOOOOOMMMM! that would have had the Founders spitting up their Madeira. Except, of course, that this is the way Jefferson wanted the census to be done, but nothing he ever said or did counts except that "watering the tree of liberty" business that Tim McVeigh believed made a helluva T-shirt to wear on his really big day....
Republicans, acknowledging its usefulness, attacked the survey as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, arguing that the government has no business knowing how many flush toilets someone has, for instance. "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."
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/congress-census-funding-8732568#ixzz1uVYubBwh