“I’m dressed as Nancy Pelosi burn­ing in hell. So I have a suit on that’s singed and cov­ered in blood, and I have chains on, and I had dead babies draped from me. If Nancy Pelosi doesn’t repent, and we pray that she does repent, and that she removes fund­ing for child-​killing from the health care bill. But if she does not, then she would be in danger of going to hell for forc­ing tax­pay­ers also to pay for the murder of children.”

—Anti-health-care-bill pro­tester Diana Rocco-​Grandy, explain­ing to NPR’s Andrea Seabrook why the “tea parties” are good news for Democrats