Tea Baggers Laugh As Woman Describes Losing Her Daughter-in-Law and Unborn Grandchild

[meegbear]

From Chicago journalist Kristen McQueary, this deplorable story:

As a journalist covering Chicago politics, verifying information is like climbing a mountain of sand. With each step you take, the deeper you sink.

Last week while researching claims from a local Tea Party activist, I found myself asking a family for proof that they had lost an unborn grandchild.

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 lack of health insurance. They said Jenny was not receiving regular prenatal care and ended up in an emergency room with double pneumonia that developed into septic shock. Her baby died in the womb, and Jenny died a few weeks later, leaving behind a husband and a 2-year-old daughter.

Catherina Wojtowicz, of Chicago's Mount Greenwood community, an organizer for a Tea Party splinter group, Chicago Tea Party Patriots, falsely claimed that the Houghs fabricated their story. In an e-mail, she called them operatives of President Barack Obama who "go from event to event and (cry) the same story."

When the Houghs spoke at the Lipinski event, some Tea Partiers ridiculed them. They moaned and rolled their eyes and interrupted. Midge Hough began to cry.

The audience, Wojtowicz later explained, was exasperated by stories of isolated tragedies that cloud debate over the health care bill itself.

"What we are talking about is the bill," she said. "We've all had family members pass away, but would this health care bill really have prevented (Jenny's) death? We do question it."

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/tea-baggers-laugh-woman-describes-los

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Which proves that Charles Dickens is really nonfiction reading.

[Taverner]

2. "Fuck everybody but me" - that's the Teabagger slogan

[yurbud]

3. Like Terry Schiavo case, they don't know the meaning of ''dead''

[Bobbie Jo]

4. WTF is wrong with these people?

I have never seen such hate-filled human beings in my life....and I've been around a while.

[ck4829]

5. Disgusting

[gordianot]

6. It makes one wonder how many of these bodies are taking up the Earth's oxygen?

How many walk the Earth and consider themselves human?

[smoogatz]

7. More wingnut projection.

The Teabaggers are shills for the insurance industry, so to obscure that (obvious) fact they have to accuse everyone who disagrees with them of being "operatives" for Obama, or socialism, or whatever. It's just grotesque.

[reggie the dog]

8. they would probably laugh at the death of their own children

saying "you should have been personally responsable for your own health, you lost your job, you shouldn't have gotten sick". These are the kind of people who would not give any of their own money to their own adult kids for health care either saying "get a job and get yourself insurance". They just do not give a shit and think that it is your own fault when you find yourself without a job.

[Echo In Light]

9. That type of mockery is cherished among RW a-holes w/the emotional maturity of junior high kids

[LeftinOH]

10. True stories they don't wanna hear about, but phony 'Kill-Grandma-Death Panels'

and other shit that hasn't happened (and won't happen) -they're OK with.

[tanyev]

11. But if a pregnant white woman gets murdered, they clamor for the death penalty on two counts.

:wtf:

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. They're apparently descended from the so-called, "Hobbits", those little chaps

said to be a sub-species of humans, whose remains were dug up on an Indonesian island not long ago.