Lean Left (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
This is not how you handle this situation: At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack of health insurance. Twenty-four-year old ...
The Debate Link (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Now they're heckling grieving families . Maybe next time they'll show up at the funeral: A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story. At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were...
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
They really are a classy bunch these tea party people.... A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story. At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack...
The Liberal Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Reaching a new low in shamelessness and callousness, the Chicago Tea Party Patriots laughed at and heckled Midge Hough , who told them about her daughter, 24, and unborn grandchild who died partly due to a lack of health insurance. Hough spoke at a town hall meeting with Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL). Watch: Kristen McQueary of the Southtown Star commented: Their daughter-in-law, Jenny, and an unborn grandchild...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The recent townhall on health care held in U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski's south Chicago district stirred a huge controversy over the experience shared by the woman below. At least one local journalist used the emotiomal exchange to paint local Tea...
Ace of Spades (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
First statement, "no one is forced to go on the public option. If someone can tell me how they are forced to go on the public option, no one, it's a choice they would have". (video at the link) A...
BuffaloPundit (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
From HuffPo: A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story. At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, [...]
Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
So-called Blue Dog Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) told constituents that he is OK with jailing Americans who don’t buy health insurance: Steve in Chicago was at the event and asked Rep. Lipinski if he was OK with jailing Americans for not purchasing health insurance: I attended a townhall meeting held by my Congressman, Dan Lipinski (D), Illinois, [...]
Proviso Probe (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Advocates of health care reform don't like the Tea Party activists who have been loud and obnoxious when members of Congress have held public meetings. The pro-health care reform people shot video of a recent town hall meeting by U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski where Tea Party activists heckled a woman telling the story of her pregnant daughter-in-law dying after being denied the care she needed because she...
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Alex Seitz-Wald at ThinkProgress: At a town hall event on health care reform hosted by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) earlier this month, Midge Hough told the tragic story of how her daughter-in-law, Jenny, and her unborn grandchild died recently because they didn’t have health insurance. Jenny came down with “severe double pneumonia, septic shock and respiratory [...]
WriteChic Press (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
ht dhough1976 and Think Progress This video is from Congressman Dan Lipinski’s Town Hall Meeting last week. In it, Midge Hough attempts to tell the story of her daughter-in-law Jennifer. The 24-year-old was 7 and half months pregnant when she became ill. The teabaggers scoff and shout. She went to a hospital. She had no insurance. She was [...]
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Nice political movement you’ve got going there. The family, Dan and Midge Hough, of Chicago, spoke in favor of health care reform and in support of U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-3rd) at a Nov. 14 town hall meeting in Oak Lawn. Their daughter-in-law, Jenny, and an unborn grandchild died recently due in part, they believe, to a [...]
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
July 30, 1965, LBJ signs Medicare bill, Truman looks on, Republicans start plotting how to kill the program Yesterday the House voted 243-183 , only one Republican, Michael Burgess (R-TX) joining the Democrats, to pass John Dingell's Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (H.R. 3961). The bill will "revise the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment system for determining the annual...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
That's Jonathan Farnick on the right Melissa Bean never joined the Blue Dog caucus; she's too smart for painting that kind of a target on his back. But her record in Congress has been just as bad-- and in some cases worse-- than most Blue Dogs. The Democratic darling of the Chamber of Commerce, Bean is a quintessential corporate Dem, representing IL-08, suburbs northwest of Chicago, including Schaumburg,...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Constituents in U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski's district feel betrayed. And they plan to let the Democrat congressman know it at his town hall meeting on Saturday. Members of the Chicago Tea Party are going to show up and confront Lipinski...
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