CC of the day - Jeff Duncan (R-SC)

today's pick for Craziest Conservative (CC) of the day is - Jeff Duncan, a Republican from South Carolina in the US House of Representatives.  mr. Duncan is certainly not the craziest, but his inclusion on the list is relevant today, so i'll go with him.  that's not to say he isn't batshit - because he is - and we'll get to that in a moment.

but today's news is particularly special.  at first blush, it's so out there that i couldn't even understand what nefarious plot he was spooked by.  i mean, conservatives by their very nature are scared of their own shadow, but who'd have thunk that boring old economic data would spook them?  

well, it has.  Mr. Duncan, along with 10 co-sponsors have introduced legislation that would bar the US Census Bureau from conducting all surveys except the ten year population survey.  

for those of you who don't pay close attention to economic data, the US Census Bureau collects all sorts of information, from unemployment stats to gross domestic product.  economists and lawmakers (presumably, at least) use this information to make policy.  for example, if GDP growth is weak, Congress could (should) propose legislation that would bolster the economy.  now i realize that our current Congress has not been doing this, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't.  and it certainly doesn't mean that we should just stop collecting the information and ignore the situation altogether.  

unless, like mr. Duncan here, you're of the opinion that gov't has no role in these things. and conservatives do think that.  we have a Federal Reserve that has been actively pursuing strategies to help the economy by keeping interest rates low and expanding monetary policy - and conservatives freaking hate it.  forget that it's working, these people don't trust the gov't.  my working assertion is that they aren't smart enough to know how it all works, so its better off just left alone.  

which i suppose is the purpose of the Bill -  "stop collecting this useful information since we don't want to do anything about it anyway."  me thinks that congressmen like mr. Duncan are in the wrong business.  

so has Duncan done anything else to warrant a place on this list.  of course he has!  just a few weeks ago he took to Facebook to explain why expanding background checks (supported by roughly 90% of Americans) is a non-starter.  his rationale - that creating a gun registry is a progressive plot to create a Rwandan style genocide against gun owners.  

forget the fact that no one was proposing any kind of gun registry, comparing the genocide which occurred in Rwanda to anything here in America is like comparing progressives to conservatives - there just isn't anything in common.  

he's also compared immigrants to vagrants and animals, and questioned the Sec'y of Homeland security about an infowars and Glen Beck conspiracy theory about the Boston Marathon bombing.  

welcome to the list Mr. Duncan.  your spot as my first CC is well deserved.