its members encouraging them to participate in a special halloween contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you can make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy, they even showed you how to burn your effigy once you wrote it. it was from aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all-expense paid trip to d.c. just burn the effigy. is this was a fringe group in 2009 takinging dangerous political rhetoric about reid and pelosi to a dangerous new extreme. the worry is not that violent rhetoric and mainstream politics is going to cause level-headed mainstreamer to do something insane and awful. the worry is that violent rhetoric encourages the least stable amongst us to do. a democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, a month before the halloween contest in 2009. how concerned are you about the tone of the political de
and so i wish that we would all, again, prove our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made to understanding that some of the people the ears that are falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statement. a few months after nancy pelosi made that statement where she publicly made clear her worry about the rise of dangerous rhetoric, the republican national committee decided to make pelosi as an individual their biggest target. on the night the house passed the affordable care act in 2010 the rnc website started redirecting visitors to a new fundraising page fire nancypelosi.com which showed pelosi with clenched fiflts in front of a wall of flames. they launched a fire pelosi bus tour where they zigzagged across the u.s. and used pelosi to