Is Bachmann Puff Piece in The Hill Trying to Pin Unsolved Crime on Bachmann's Critics?

Betsy Rothstein, the "Capitol Living Editor" of The Hill had an article yesterday in The Hill called "Bachmann’s sudden transformation"... it is a typical puff piece... one of many... about Bachmann that attempts to whitewash her bizarre, right-wing, theocratic statements and behavior, so I won't bother taking it apart except to say the article fails to offer any substantial evidence that Bachmann has changed for the better. However, this passage needs some explaining: Four days after “Hardball,” Bachmann apologized at a campaign stop in St. Cloud, Minn., calling her remarks on Obama a “misstatement.” A day later, vandals defaced Bachmann’s home, as well as those of five other Minnesota lawmakers, following high-profile votes on the $700 billion financial bailout bill. I think we're beginning to see the invention of a new Bachmann-as-victim myth - that critics of Bachmann are on the same side as the vandals who defaced her property. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I don't know a single critic of Bachmann who sympathized with the vandalism. I strongly condemned the vandalism in this post on this blog: Whoever is responsible for this attack must be brought to justice. It is very convenient to imply that Bachmann's liberal critics were responsible for the grafitti because the perpetrator(s) of this crime were never brought to justice and after inquiring, it seems the Federal and local investigations fizzled. Even Betsy Rothstein realized that the implication that Bachmann's critics were responsible for the vandalism at the Bachmann residence is complicated by the bi-partisan nature of the crime: However, Bachmann, whose garage was sprayed with the word “scum”, was the only one of the half-dozen legislators who voted no on the legislation. So, you can rule out being upset at the bailout as a motive for the attack. So, what was the motive? Betsy Rothstein quotes only one of the messages, "scum" spray-painted on Bachmann's property. You can see pictures of the vandalism at Minnesota Democrats Exposed. Here are the other messages: "Resign Now!" "(arrow) Still a TARGET" (last word underlined twice) "PSALM 2" The biblical reference to Psalm 2 which appeared at the other crime scenes suggests that the perpetrator was religious - that's a clue that also rules out a lot of people. Psalm 2 does not offer much in the way of clues except the person who quoted it is an extremely angry individual who is invoking God's wrath. The second message, however is very interesting. It is unlikely that the message is using the word "target" as a threat of violence. If the perpetrator intended to threaten to make a member of Congress a "target" of an assassination, I doubt that the investigation and the reporting on the investigation would have faded so quickly. In fact, WCCO reported that it was not a Federal crime. However, if the word "target" was used in the legal sense, as in "target of an investigation", that may explain the motive of the perpetrator(s). The graffiti at Norm Coleman's residence used the word "criminal". Now, take a look at the most baffling aspect of the crime - that Minnesota's two senators and four of its House members from both parties, right-wingers, moderates, liberals were victims of the faith-based vandalism. Was there something else going on at the time that mixed religion, politics and a possible criminal investigation? Something that Bachmann shared with Klobuchar, Ellison, Coleman, Ramstad and possibly Kline? It's a good clue because there's very little these victims have in common that would piss off a religiously-minded person. I found this on the Petters-Fraud website: "Meanwhile the Graffiti of a Politicians home has remained unsolved..." I'd like to see this crime solved, wouldn't you?