“They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers. Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”

– A “veteran Democrat operative,” offering advice to the Obama administration on reactions to Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting spree in Arizona on Saturday. Loughner listed Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto among books which influenced him and was described by school friends as “left wing” following the attack.