Randall Terry unleashes the beast. It is notable that Sen. Reid has joined Pelosi on the whipping post here. At least they are smart enough not to go after Obama. Still, the call is pretty blatant:

Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, said Tuesday that the contest serves as a political and spiritual statement that "gives people a chance to peacefully vent their rage."

"If Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid force us to pay for child killing and they die unrepentant, they will burn in hell for this," Terry said in a telephone interview.

Not sure that this is a frightening as the recent flare-ups in Afghanistan. But it is eerily similar. Terry is pretty squarely out there on the fringe. This echoes the Maryland man that ran into some trouble with his Congressman's hung effigy. I enjoy how this is framed as a spiritual catharsis for its practitioners, and as a "threat to the soul" of the Democratic leaders. Good to know that spiritual warfare wages on.

Has anyone written a comprehensive history of effigies?