I can’t wait to hear the Republican spin on the Spokane bomber once the news of what happened circulates. The American Cancer Society T-shirt will be said to show his connection to “liberal socialist” causes. And Treasure Island smacks of some liberal fantasy. They might even manufacture a bogus Facebook page for the bomber, like they did for Loughner, if they catch the bomber. Once those ideas are thoroughly debunked (immediately), we will next hear the lone crazy person theory with no connection to any Republican. Thank goodness nobody was harmed in this attempt to kill people celebrating the life of MLK.

A "potentially deadly" explosive device that could have caused severe casualties was found along the intended route of a Martin Luther King Day march in Spokane, Wash., half an hour before the event was to begin, the FBI said Tuesday. The annual Unity March was rerouted after city workers noticed a black Swiss Army backpack apparently abandoned on a bench about 9:25 a.m. Monday, said Frank Harrill, the supervisory senior resident agent in the FBI’s Seattle division. The device inside "clearly would have had the potential to inflict multiple casualties, injury and death, to humans," Harrill said in an interview Tuesday. He declined to describe the device. The FBI said the backpack also contained two T-shirts — one from the 2010 Stevens County Relay for Life, an American Cancer Society fundraiser, and the other reading, "Treasure Island Spring 2009." About 1,500 people marched along the new route without incident while the Spokane Explosives Disposal Unit neutralized the device. No one has claimed responsibility or offered a motive, Harrill said. But he called the connection with the King Day march "inescapable." "We’re treating this as an act of domestic terrorism," he said. The FBI, which is leading the investigation, is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. The area has a history of white supremacist activity… [emphasis added]

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Now I am not making the claim that any individual Republican had anything to do with this attempt. I am making the claim that this attempt fits perfectly with the ideals and history of the extreme-right, white supremacist militias, a demographic that the Republican Party has embraced and support in their quest to eliminate the middle class and establish one party rule.

The best coverage of this event I have seen comes from Rachel Maddow.

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While Rachel did not go as far as I hav, e in drawing the connections between the bomber and the right, her insinuation made here thinking on this clear enough.