Proviso Probe (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
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...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Now this is low, even for bare-knuckle politics. That's how Chicago reporter Kristen McQueary described the ugly scene which emerged during a Nov. 14 town hall with Rep. Dan Lipinski. Facing an audience stacked with Tea Party members, Lipinski introduced a family who believe they lost a daughter and unborn grandchild because the girl did not [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
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 [...]
Ablogination (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
A brood of vermin that goes by the handle “Chicago Tea Party Patriots” on video showing the true nature of their sub-human kind. May each and every one of these pieces of shit rot in the bowels of Hell where all of their species belong. Chattahbox has it all: Unruly Teaparty Mob Heckles Couple Who Lost Grandchild, Daughter-in-Law November 23, 2009 (ChattahBox)—The ugliness and mob...
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
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 [...]
WriteChic Press (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
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 [...]
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...
Mizozo (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
According to some I should be doing a victory dance because the US House of Representatives passed a version of the Affordable Health Care for America Act that included explicit language that limited the funding that ObamaCare could provide for abortions. Admittedly, this is not bad news. But its a very cold comfort at best. That supposed victory for the Pro-Life movement would be the Stupak Amendment...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
There was no shortage of drama at the nation's Capitol Saturday as House Democrats narrowly passed their final version of the health care reform bill -- and the Illinois delegation was right in the thick of it. While every Illinois Democrat supported the bill, Reps. Dan Lipinski and Jerry Costello were key backers of the controversial amendment that secured its passage but has since deeply divided...
with both hands (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski flipped off every voter in the Democratic 3rd District with his vote on the idiotic Health Care Bill in the House of Representatives on Saturday. A Cynical Dan might offer - 'Hey, I had to vote that way and show sodilarity with President Obama as ILLINI! You know Rahm would have been all over me like a cheap suit and besides the Senate will kill this." However,...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
No one in the Illinois delegation broke party ranks ... VOTE 1 CD -- Bobby Rush -- Yes 2 CD -- Jesse Jackson Jr -- Yes 3 CD -- Dan Lipinski -- Yes 4 CD -- Luis Gutierrez -- Yes...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
By Mark Rhoads Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-3rd District in southwest Cook County) often makes a great show of attending Sunday mass at St. John of The Cross Parish in Western Springs and also makes a great show of pretending to...
Government Bytes (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I wrote earlier about the list of 69 Democrats who had expressed opposition to the health care bill at some point. Well, digging through the roll call vote records, I've compiled a list of people who appear to have gone back on their earlier statements. They are... Marion Berry (AR) Leonard Boswell (IA) Dennis Cardoza (CA) Chris Carney (PA) Gerry Connolly (VA) Jim Cooper (TN) Jim Costa (CA) Jerry Costello...
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