Why?

Why would bushco target Ron Klein? He's a freshman democrat. He doesn't sit on the Judiciary Committee. He's on Financial Services and Foreign Affairs. He's about as unimportant as you can get in the Congress. He may be a great guy, but he isn't a key figure by any stretch of the imagination. And to top it off, it appears that the substance found at his FL office is harmless. Isn't it just possible that this was the work of a disgruntled constituent or a repuke nutcase?

If they're going to target someone to intimidate the dems from holding impeachment hearings in Judiciary, why wouldn't they target someone who actually sat on that Committee?

You were a nobody. You couldn't join half the after-school clubs. You got slammed into your locker by the Seniors.

They're sending a message to the freshmen. "If you go along with this, you can forget ever getting anywhere in this place."

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And I forget who said, "Politics is Hollywood for ugly people."

and it certainly doesn't account for the anthrax to Leahy and Daschle a few years ago.

(though, I must admit, you just brought back horrid memories of walking the gauntlet of "Senior Row")

The freshmen are still star-struck. They've hit the big-time, even if they're office is behind the boiler in the basement...they have everything, man! And if they don't play along, next election it's back to Bumfuck, USA. They all see themselves as the next Kennedy, with a life-long career swilling at the public trough, getting everything for free.

Daschle and Leahy weren't freshman, just the opposite. They had power. That's a whole different scenerio.

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I think it all depends. I'm pretty sure that my new freshman Rep isn't terribly star struck. But more to the point, why not someone who actually sits on the JC? I think there are fresman on it. I don't see that targeting Klein really sends much of a message.

but isn't it also possible that targeting, "a freshman democrat doesn't sit on the Judiciary but sits on FINANCIAL SERVIES and FOREIGN AFFAIRS," might make seem MORE like there was some AL-QAEDA involvement on the threat?

Bush right now is all about FEAR PLANTING... as Larry Sabato said not long ago on HARDBALL, (and I may be slight paraphrasing but he said to C.Matthews, "haven't you been in a room where, when Bush comes on people don't want to listen to him anymore? They start talking to each other, they change the channel, anything but listen to him. Sabato added, all his has left is his VETO POWER and his WAR POWER."

WOW! So, today, conjointly with the Klein threat, there was an American Airlines evacuated to check for suspicious luggage, and the FBI reports that Al-Qaeda is threatening to hit a couple of malls during the Christmas SHOPPING season?

I mean. Fear Planting. Fear Planting and Fear Planting. That, along with his Veto Power and his War Power that is all that Bush has left while his pittiful father goes on Chris Wallace recently to state (talking about his son) that, " I have great respect for his positions and for his guts, for his staying in there ... AND HE'S GOT ONE VERY PROUD FATHER SITTING RIGHT HERE ..."

and in that same interview he plugs his son's campaign of fear planting throughout the nation by stating, " ... I think 9/11 guaranteed that national security is going to be in the forefront of every election. .. the president's done a good job. Homeland security is doing a good job. The agency--intelligence is doing a good job. The congress even here have taken steps to support the initiatives of homeland security. .. BUT I DON'T THINK ANY DOMESTIC ISSUE, AT LEAST IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, IS GOING TO TRANSCENT THE INTEREST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN KEEPING OUR HOMELAND SAFE."

I mean ... the man has even adopted the vocabulary of this fascist regime:
homeland vs. nation
fear planting vs. reality seeding
nationa security vs. economy

I think all of this goes into the Ron Klein target this afternoon and the rest of the fear planting reports being reported about on television today...

this way the bushcoes keep their hands clean ... targeting the least likely of their enemies (or the seemingly least likely of their enemies.) Klein Finance and Foreign Affairs committee might make him more of a target to the bushes than anyone of us can ever imagine.

but I'm not sure this fits in with that. Could be, or it could be some nut. It would hardly be the first time.