Look, honestly, there are a few nutballs in every party. But I've also observed that one is a smidge more, um, dedicated to their agenda than the other. This guy is obviously an outlier, but I'd also assert there will be more outliers in any party which turns a blind eye to this sort of thing.

A few weeks ago, I was watching CNN, right after Nancy's smear about "swastikas" — and sure enough, RIGHT ON CUE, an incredibly neatly spray-painted little swastika had appeared on a Democratic politicians' office sign. Needless to say, I didn't assume some conservative had heard Nancy Pelosi's smear, and thought: "Hey, this would be a perfect moment to paint a swastika on my Democratic representatives' sign!" I could be wrong, of course, but the timing just seemed a bit too perfect.

Well, still can't prove anything, but let's just say I'm not shocked by this development:

Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts.

Parents: this is what happens when you name your son 'Maurice', when he's already burdened with the unfortunate surname "Schwenkler".

Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver's art district was a consequence of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate." She tempered her statement after Schwenkler's political history was revealed.

But of course.

Schwenkler is charged with criminal mischief and is to make his first appearance in Denver County Court today. He is accused of doing an estimated $11,000 in damage and could face a felony conviction.

I'll believe it when I see it. His cause was just, after all.

On the last day of the 2008 Republican National Convention, he was charged with misdemeanor unlawful assembly in St. Paul, Minn. Court records provided through the St. Paul Pioneer Press show he was jailed about 2 a.m.

Note the phrase "charged with", accompanied by a complete absence of the words "convicted of."

Schwenkler received $500 in November 2008 to walk door-to-door in support of Democrat Mollie Cullom, who lost her race to Republican state Rep. David Balmer of Centennial. Waak, who was not involved with the group that paid Schwenkler, said she's never heard of the suspect and pointed out that just because he canvassed "doesn't mean he's a good Democrat."

Undoubtedly. He's clearly a Republican at the moment. Love to hear who his accomplice was.

There's a bonus environmentalist element to this crime, too:

In those disclosures, Schwenkler's address is listed as Derailer Bicycle Cooperative, a free community bicycle collective that operates just around the corner from the Democratic headquarters. Multiple volunteers at the collective declined to discuss Schwenkler, though they said he was affiliated with the group.... When a Denver police officer on patrol spotted two people smashing windows, the suspects fled on bicycles.

It's very important to keep your carbon footprint low while framing the GOP as a bunch of vandals.

"Nice Reichstag we've got here. Shame if something was to 'appen to it."