At a recent town hall event in Illinois held by Rep. Dan Lipinski, several members of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots attended in order to publicly heckle the Democratic representative. They booed his comments, chanted "USA!" over his statements, and appeared to care very little for actually listening to what the member of Congress had to say about health care reform.
When a supporter of health reform stood up to talk about her daughter's personal story of a system gone wrong, it didn't seem to matter.
Midge Hough, whose daughter and unborn granddaughter died partly due to lacking health insurance, spoke candidly about the need for a public option and other reforms necessary to help this country. She spoke of her daughter's tragic ordeal, of having to leave one hospital to enter another, of having to lie to that second hospital about having insurance simply so they could be seen by a doctor.
If there was any sympathy for Hough and her family in that room, it was hard to spot. Some reports and eyewitness accounts speak of eye-rolling, of continued heckling, and even cynical laughter at the grieving mother's tale. In a mass email sent by an organizer for the Chicago Tea Party Patriots, Catherina Wojtowicz disputed the story as true, and called the Hough family operatives of Obama that "go from event to event and (cry about) the same story."
I don't like to label people based upon their associations to organizations. But the more I see events like these, the more Tea Party protests I view on the web, the more I'm beginning to wonder: are all Tea Party protesters this insensitive? Or is this political movement simply blind to the injustices of discrimination through pre-existing conditions, or injustices through economic hardships? Do they really believe that people should die because they once had a condition that needed medical attention, or because they can't afford to buy insurance themselves?
Isn't that the true definition of rationing of care? Shouldn't this inspire us to make drastic changes to the system? Or should we say to these individuals, "Hey, you had this problem once, so we're not going to treat any other expensive procedure"?
Say what you will about the proposed bills for health care reform -- I'll be the first to admit to you they're not perfect. But they are bills that, if passed, will give much-needed help to individuals who face these situations, or to those who can't adequately afford health insurance.
We can't afford to lose another life to this crisis. How many more thousands must perish because some have unwarranted fears over government-run health care? Take a moment to consider the lives of those most affected by the health care crisis we're currently in. If you still think reform is a bad idea, at least you've taken those families into consideration.
Tea Party protesters lack compassion, heckle grieving mother
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Give me a freaking break liberal!!! You say Tea Party protestors lack compassion over ONE incident? And no...we don't want to hear the LIES some of the congress people say. THEY don't listen to THE PEOPLE so why should the people listen to them?
The left is so pathetic always grasping at straws.
IF the left had ANY compassion they wouldn't be advocating this ridiculous bill that only makes special interest and law makers pockets BIGGER and only bankrupt our country more.
THINK DUMMIES!!! WE CAN NOT TAKE CARE OF THE POOR IF WE HAVE NO MONEY
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This is not an isolated incident you moron. Google it.
THIS IS JUST SO MUCH BULLCRAP. FACT IS WE HAVE HAD TO ENDURE VIOLENCE, 8 INCIDENCES, INCLUDING MURDER, FROM THESE SOROS FUNDED COMMUNIST CREEPS!
Lipinski and his liberal fools want to take this nation into the slavery of socialism where misery is shared by all, but the TeaParty people who are speaking out against the pain are 'lacking compassion'!!!! Liberal logic gone amok!
A self-appointed group of wingnuts parading around in wigs, banging drums and howling down the bereaved members of a heartbroken family at a town hall are *not* 'the people'. They may be exercising their democratic rights, but, democratically, they represent only themselves. "The people" are represented by their elected representatives and that, much as the teabggers just can't bear it, is Obama. He's got the numerical weight of the majority on his side... and it's a wonderful, reassuring thing for patriotic Americans and the whole world that he does. No sane person put the pig-ignorant, mean-spirited hat-fetishists from the teabag rallies in charge of the world's biggest economy, two wars and a nuclear arsenal; geopolitics is a little more intellectually demanding than whining, shouting and attention-seeking dress-ups. The ultimate insult delivered by the teabaggers is believing all Americans are as pathetic as they are.
Hmm, did you notice that the "responses" from the tea baggers are filled with rants, but no facts or specifics?
I guess they have none.
She is a gem… I just sent her a congratulations email for her wonderful national performance, I was involved with the Chicago Tea until I went to the 9/12 march. People were mocking homeless people and other things that just turned me off.
I do not support Obama and his policies, but I also want nothing to do with these teabaggers. When she threatened to “blow my head off” I, knew she would make the national funny papers. What a nut…
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