Bomb threat at office of tax reformer Norquist

Source: The Hill

The Washington Metropolitan Police Department responded to a bomb threat Monday morning at the office of conservative activist Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.

Norquist’s office received a bomb threat via telephone and contacted police at around 9 a.m. Monday, according to Officer A. Clay, a spokesman for the department.

Authorities responded to the office, located at 722 12th St. NW, and the threat was subsequently cleared.

“The police are conducting an investigation” into the matter, wrote John Kartch, director of communications for Americans for Tax Reform, in an email to The Hill.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/173273-bomb-threat-at-office-of-anti-tax-activist-norquist

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I find myself wondering if this is connected to his recent statement regarding letting the Bush tax cuts expire not falling under their pledge?

Link to his statement for those who may have missed it: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59774.html

can he expect? Its his oath that is keeping 330,000,000 people in the gutter. I am surprised it didn't happen sooner.

but I have to be honest. I'd be thrilled if someone sent him to kingdom come.

Or a desperate attempt by Norquist to get sympathy by calling in his own threat?

That makes him an outcast.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59654.html

of Bush tax cuts :crazy: these repugs always make sense when it comes to wars, taxes, jobs...:sarcasm:

generating some publicity for idiots and true believers. If a real radical had him in their sights, it would have been more than a threat. It's probably best not to give people ideas like this.

Probably best not to give people ideas like this. :evilgrin:

called it in himself

Anything to discredit the Left.

to create an enemy they can all fight against. They're all fucking nuts.

I wish every fucking one of them would blow themselves up. That would be the ultimate display of patriotism! I do take exception when they kill innocent civilians though..............

he's been flashmobbed on facebook in reccent days ...

Something to take their minds off the fact the ring wing really does blow shit up?

And are you very sure that nobody on the left is capable of making a false bomb threat?

is a professional victim.

:hi:

Probably some disgruntled former Acorn, now Planned Parenthood employee, was responsible, according to his heavily edited footage.

Needed the attention, obviously. A sad, pathetic person whose only pleasure is hurting others.

I really do hope he gets absolutely everything he deserves.

Soon.

BIG government, that he wants Sooooooooo badly to eliminate?

it smacks of the same crap Cantor pulled a while back after the rightwing terrorist had pulled one of their jobs. :evilfrown:

if it's true at all. When we're ready to take on this idiot, there won't be any warning

:popcorn:

Why would Norquist's office depend upon a government service like the police? Wouldn't he want to drown the police department in a bathtub rather than have it investigate a bomb at his office?

;-)

Frikkin Republicon socialists are a disgrace.

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that's assurance that it ain't gonna happen. WHY would a bomber want to trip up his own foul deed? Stupid. And certainly believable as being a hoax from Grover's operation.

We need to condemn our own when this shit happens.

But, if it was a wing-nut, then it's just as bad. But, it's also more understandable.

A lot of people on this forum are convinced that it's not possible for someone of the "progressive" mindset to feel so strongly about things that he or she could rationalize an act or threat of violence.

I think that kind of hubris - that our philosophy is so pure as to make it impossible for someone to take it too far - is the first step down a very slippery slope.

the timing of this is suspect. Now Fox pundits, instead of being on the defence about right wing terrorism, can offer this false equivalency bullshit about how both sides do it.

Now Fox pundits, instead of being on the defence about right wing terrorism, can offer this false equivalency bullshit about how both sides do it.

In recent history there is a huge disparity in the frequency with which the respective "sides" engage in such bad behavior. But that has not always been the case, it may not be that way in the future, and such comparisons are not very useful in determining what happened in a single incident.

School is out for summer in many places. The alleged threat may simply have been a teenage prank.

Actually looking at the situation out of context lends it a credibility that it hasn't earned. In fact if we ignore the context of continual false equivalency it leads to all sorts of nonsensical situations where the media provides equal coverage at an anti war protest of 8,000 marchers to a group of 30 pro war counter protesters. False equivalency allows people to honestly attempt to compare Michael Moore to Anne Coulter or PBS to Fox News.

If a right winger gets blown up and then If it really was a left winger then, and only then will I abandon my suspicion and my accusation of the right trying to play the equivalency game.

somewhere.

It's his modus operandi.

Yes. That seems to be the logical answer.

Sure, he is not likable, but what in the world would bombing his HQ change. It would just get more sympathy for his crazy ideas.

Very strange. This could be personal, maybe a disgruntled employee.

same as raising taxes.

There was no bomb, just an unsubstantiated threat, but it makes Norquisling look like a victim.

If he's a victim, that means he is right, right?

even as pranks. Frankly, I'm not seeing enough info to justify any speculation about who's behind the threat

Norquist. He's bombastic enough to explode on his own and I despise the bastard, but bomb threats are way Over The Top.

Bomb threats are not right at all in any case.

Grover Norquist in advance if they planned to blow his sorry ass up. The guy has only employers, acquaintances and enemies.

Instead of calling the police and being such a socialist about it, he should have created some jobs by hiring a private security company to look into it.

:rofl:

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I don't believe they ever got a phone call. Not for a second. The right wing is notorious for making themselves out to be a victim and that's what this is, 'cept it didn't happen.

You know, their bombs tossed at Americans' safety nets.

He has planted a bomb on our economy and he is determined to blow it up.

Was a bomb found? Did they give a reason?

I presume the assumption is that a left winger is responsible. That would be a mistake. A conservative target following the hate-laced conservative christian rampage in Norway seems too convenient by far. By all means, get to the bottom of this and charge the party that called in the bomb threat with an act of terror. But let's wait and let this play out before jumping to conclusions.

Anders Breivik gave the biggest call to arms to right wingers since WW2 and now the right are trying to claim he was not one of them and that they are the victims.

actually an errant bullet broke a pain of glass in a building that Cantor used to funnel campaign money to Jim Gilmore and other Republican parasites

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/26/eric-cantor-bullet-shot-a_n_514651.html

We don't actively hope that bombs against those with different views go "BOOM".

Now go read the Freepers on the Norway attacks and the Psalm 109:8 meme.