The blog, which takes a "strict constructionist, libertarian point of view" according to its author, encouraged its readers to throw bricks at the windows of Democratic headquarters across the country.
A brick was thrown through the glass doors at the committee's Rochester, N.Y., office, located at University Avenue and Culver Road, either late Saturday night or early Sunday. Attached to the brick was a quote from Barry Goldwater: "Extremism in defense of liberty is novice."
"I guess that guy's one of ours," blogger Mike Vanderboegh, 57, of Pinson said when told of the quote during a telephone interview. "Glad to know people read my blog."
A brick also was thrown at the window of Rep. Louise Slaughter's district office in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Vanderboegh declined to take credit for inspiring that incident because his blog posting encouraging the vandalism went up Friday and Slaughter's office was attacked late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
The two western New York incidents are apparently in protest over the bill to reform health care that passed the House of Representatives on Sunday, though no perpetrators have come forward.
Monroe County Democratic Committee Chairman Joseph Morelle said he is considering asking the district attorney to file charges against Vanderboegh, a possibility the blogger said he considered.
"That would certainly give me an opportunity to make my case to a larger public," Vanderboegh said. "I wouldn't enjoy a sedition charge but I'm willing to accept it. Perhaps that's a more efficient use of my resources than getting arrested for vandalism."
Vanderboegh has not thrown bricks at windows himself, he said, noting that he gets around with the help of a cane.
Morelle, who filed a police report, said the vandal was a coward for not coming forward.
"If he wants to go to jail, I'm all for it," Morelle said of Vanderboegh. "I don't think there's anything remotely appropriate about destroying personal property."
The success or failure of a prosecution of Vanderboegh for acts he encouraged would depend on how close a relationship he had with the person who committed the crime, said Monroe County District Attorney Michael Green.
Just a blog post with nothing more would "be a difficult, if not an impossible, prosecution," Green said.
In one high-profile case, a Planned Parenthood chapter in Oregon won a $109 million verdict against abortion opponents who singled out abortion providers on "wanted"-style posters on their Web site.
Vanderboegh is on Social Security Disability and uses private insurance obtained through his wife's employment, he said.
His blog, Sipsey Street Irregulars, which takes its name from a fictional street in a novel he is writing, receives between 5,000 and 7,000 hits a day, he said.
He said his call to break windows is to get the attention of Democrats before the country breaks into civil war.
"If it takes a few bricks and broken windows for people to understand how close we are to widespread violence in this country," he said, "then the bricks in the windows will have been worth it."
The postings are "highly unethical and gravely irresponsible," said Grant Cos, an associate professor of communication at Rochester Institute of Technology who has written about free speech issues.
Monroe County Republican Chairman Bill Reilich condemned the vandalism, saying violence has no part in politics.
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