Tea partiers heckle woman whose daughter-in-law died because she didn’t have health insurance.
Tea partiers heckle woman whose daughter-in-law died because she didn’t have health insurance.
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 Respitory failure,” Hough said, “and laid in an ICU unit for the next two months at a cost of $22,000 a day.” Her baby died in the womb and Jenny died a few weeks later. But as Hough was telling her story, tea partiers at the meeting “ridiculed” her, the South Town Star reports. “They moaned and rolled their eyes and interrupted,” laughing loudly and shouting her down at points. Watch it (beginning at 1:30):
Chicago Tea Party Patriots sent out a flyer to encourage attendance at the event, saying Lipinski had “sold us out!” by voting “to pass socialized medicine.” In defense of the heckling, an organizer for the group falsely claimed that the Houghs fabricated their story and called them operatives of President Barack Obama who “go from event to event and (cry) the same story.” At another recent event, Hough told Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) that she has been “personally attacked” by tea party activists at her home address. (HT: Crooks and Liars)
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The Compassionate Right strikes again!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pmThese white wing dooshnozzles are despicable.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 pmRespitory failure
– - Is that like repository failure? Respiratory. Lotsa TP typos today.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 pmwere in the hell are the decent people there. There should have been twice as many people standing and telling then to sit down and shut up!!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 pmDisgusting.
Abs o fcking lutely disgusting!
Surprising?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:55 pmSadly, no.
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eebeano breath
STFU!
Or else I’ll Online Privacy ya where the sun don’t shine!
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:57 pmHow can we,as Americans, condone this behavior? Those people should be called on the carpet for their insenitivity and cruelty. To be heckled by a bunch of strangers after such a devestating lose is inhumane. These people should all be ashamed. There is a special place in Hell for those who have no empathy.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:57 pmWatching this made me feel sick.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:57 pmWhat evil, selfish and insane excuses for humanity are these far-right, hate-filled Teabaggers from hell. Mental health problems have really taken the Republicans to a new highs in inhuman conduct.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:58 pmWelcome to corporate America.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 pmyes, because we all know teabaggers and their champions: michelle myiloveabigdingdong malkin, boo-hoo glenda becky, angry trannie annie coulter and midget boy hannity are such compassionate souls.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 pmSo, “right to life” is only worth defending when it’s a story you can milk -politically speaking- for all that it’s worth?
Other than that, it’s more than fair game to ridicule.
Conservatives. Classy to the very end.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 pmThese people are the product of propaganda. They have no thought, no empathy, no sensitivity. Isn’t this what Hitler and his minions did? Sweep up the uninformed amd fill their minds with hatred? This is absolutely deplorable.
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I don’t know how much more evidence Americans need to convince them that fascism is rising in the United States. This scene looks like something from the streets of 1930’s Berlin. American against American. It’s the goal of the Beck, Palin and Limbaugh crowd. The fascist genie has been let out of the bottle in America.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:03 pmP.D. says:
While I agree with your opinion completely, I think it’s unnecessary to Godwin this thread.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pmStay classy, teabaggers!
These poor dolts are so dumb. The only folks they listen to are those who peddle the “socialized medicine” falsehood. They have all fallen for the “take-over of one-sixth of the economy” meme. Chinless Mitch even repeats that lie — sure makes it hard to believe anything else he has to say.
Let’s unpack that one, shall we? The government is already the payor for 63 percent of all healthcare delivered in the U.S. (Medicare, VA, Tri-care, Medicaid, etc.) and the “public option” is expected to cover only two percent of the remainder of the population (let’s say that is two percent of ~ 60 percent or 1.5 of the remainder of “private sector” health cost.
In other words, this huge honking “government take-over” that this reform represents is about one percent of the total healthcare spend. And that is 0.16 percent of the economy!
Keep that in mind when the piggies are squealing. They are very good at making mountains out of molehiles . . . and vice versa, too.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pmthe Compassionate Conservative: So pro-life until profits come into mind…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pmcancervative guy,
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pmyou never answered the question from the other night,
you going to say “thanks but no thanks” to the medicare man?
or are you just another hypocritical cancervative scumbag like i suspect?
CG@15, Get out of here! You are a immoral scum-bag.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:05 pmconservative guy says:
She should have boughr health insurance.
Conservative guy: So Pro-Life until it comes to money…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:05 pmThese hateful tea baggers obviously don’t believe in the rights of the “unborn” when said “unborn” cannot pay for its own health insurance.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:05 pmthe teabagbing terrorists should have been cuffed and stuff on a disturbing the peace rap, just like the members of code pink used to be arrested for.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:06 pmI would like to add uninsured to that list PCR.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pmYou do understand that some people can’t afford it right?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pmThey only care about the unborn because they can sockpuppet them, after that, go die.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm24. They are the elite’s useful idiots to sustain their class warfare…of course the system will NEVER come down on them. Code Pink on the other hand is a threat to the military-industrial complex…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pmShe should have boughr [sic] health insurance. -~=CG=~-
Thats what I love about enon-cons. Real compassion.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pmWhat about the people in the audience? What the Hell were they thinking? Why didn’t they stand up for them? I would have. I hope when these people got home they had some time for reflection on their cowardly behavior. What a friggin disgrace. Hecling people in wheelchairs and people who have lost loved ones. And the ‘Tea-Baggers’ were concerned the Neo-Nazis would make THEM look bad?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:09 pmthey are trying to say these people are plants who travel to tell their personal story
as if they don’t know there are 45000 people who die every year from lack of health insurance
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She should have boughr health insurance.
But, but, what about the emergency room? Are you saying that once you get past the ER if you can’t pay, you die? And an undelivered infant, shouldn’t the doctors be charged with murder?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:12 pmWill they ask for absolution when they go to church next Sunday, where the sermon will be about Jesus and his philosophy?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pmHow do these so-called christians live with themselves?
STORM says:
Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
You know that includes those who think it doesn’t go FAR ENOUGH…but yeah continue to play the useful idiot for the Big Insurance companies…I’m just surprised that you’re willing to do it for free…people like Stephen Helmsley must LOVE people like you willing to shill for them without pay…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pmGee, Stormy, you think that might be because the HI lobbyists, Blue dogs and Repugs have turned it into a regressive piece of crap?
Make you a bet. If the bill suddenly went to Medicare-E and tossed out all the crap, where would those support numbers be? I’ll bet over 70% support. Care to wager?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm“They moaned and rolled their eyes and interrupted,”
These folks are so Orwellian in their doublethink I have to wonder if its a parody to make the teabaggers look bad. But when they carry guns to a pro-life rally…naw, they are really and truly teabaggers.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:16 pmawwwwww, how cute! STORMfront is quoting a ratmutton report. might as well link us directly to poxnews.com, shitstain.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:16 pmthey are trying to say these people are plants who travel to tell their personal story
well then its kinda like you tea baggers then right i mean you all have nice pretty buses you ride in. maybe you all can go together and that way we could cut down on green house gas`s as well.
You all are slimy Cowards and so very Un-American
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:18 pmthat was rasmussen? Hell that’d be like me going into Free Republic and posting a Daily Kos poll…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:18 pmNotice how STORM side stepped the issue about a woman and her child DYING because of LACK of Health Care and went on a speil about polling. What an insensitive moron.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:19 pmJust 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.
38% of voters?
Or people polled?
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 pmstorm is truly a useful idiot and belongs in the room with his fellow morons in Rep. Lipinski’s townhall meeting.
storm –> see my post #18 above. Get someone to ’splain it to you. The poll results are a combination of (a) people who don’t think the bill is comprehensive enough and (b) gullible idiots like you who are running scared because the repubs, rant-jockeys and FoxSnooze are lying to you about some mythical “government take-over” of 16 percent of the economy. That is B as in B; S as in S.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:21 pmI thought these teabaggers were all pro-life.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:21 pmGoddamn them all.
STORMfront,
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:23 pmbetter watch out, shitstain or the baby jeebus is going to tell santa claus to skip your house this year.
STORM and conservative guy says:
lets have a beer for the defeat of the health care plan!!!!!!!
then i pray and hope one or more of your family comes down with some thing and well die`s,,, then i will be first to laugh at you and make fun of you.
and tell you to bad you did not live in a country that provides the basic measure of decency.
So what you say lets have that beer and hope for a slow dead in your family. come on it be a hoot!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:24 pmI have a, more than, passing relationship with the English language. I still can’t find words that adequately convey my contempt for the animated excrement that is the teabaggers.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 pmMarie@44, Oh sure, they SAY they are Pro-Life when it comes to telling a woman what she can and can’t do with her body. But when a young woman and her infant DIE, they could give a sh*t. I will NEVER understand the mind-set of these people. They are cruel and disgusting.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:25 pmIt’s cognitive dissonance at play…tHEY claim that they’re pro-life and love the fetus. Well they hear that a fetus died because of the mother’s lack of health insurance. Somehow there’s some dissonance between them. Look a fetus died, and maybe the system is to blame? But that conflicts with their anti health-care reform agenda. So in order to get rid of the dissonance, they HAVE to claim that the mother is only faking it and that she is an Obama plant to stir up sympathy.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 pmTeabaggers…more like $h!tbaggers to me…it’s all fun & games until it happens to you fleabags…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:28 pmMarie says:
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I thought these teabaggers were all pro-life.
Goddamn them all.
They are only pro life if the government does’nt chip in for the birth or postnatal care of the baby.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:28 pmWhen the 2010 elections roll around video clips of these low-life, ignorant, racist, rednect republicans should be rolled out on a web site similar to youtube, for everyone to see.
These teabaggers just prove that republicans are not fit. That’s it, not fit for this, not fit for that, they are just not fit for anything.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:29 pmThese are the people that Palin, Hasselbeck, and HOAX NEWS
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:31 pmare so very proud of.
These teabaggers have no shame and no compassion. It’s all about them. Their part of the Reagan “me generation”.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:31 pmPatriots? More like petrats
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:32 pmAh, the wonderful Pro-lifers!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:32 pmOnly 16% now believe passage of the plan will lead to lower health care costs. Nearly four times as many (60%) believe the plan will increase health care costs. -=Razmussen=-
Of course, with no health insurance reform the costs will rise at about the same clip as before — 120% a decade.
Enjoy your beer Storm, I suggest the cheap beer,
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pmAnd these people vote in record numbers. All these so-called ‘Christians’. No wonder why other countries laugh at us. Just looking at these people, they conclude we are as ignorant and stupid as they are. I’m getting a drink.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:34 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
STORM: I want my insurance to go up 100% a decade or 20% a year!!
Wooohooo!! Drinking Beer to Celebrate!!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:35 pmJokes on you guys lol…
I really hope this bill gets killed and pushes this country to the brink of bankruptcy!
No. If you read GAO reports the country was basically bankrupt back in 2006.
Now who was prez back then, I wonder, I forget his name.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:36 pmI know there isn’t a God.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:36 pmCause if there was, some lightning bolts would have been applied to some teabagger ass.
I really hope this bill gets killed and pushes this country to the brink of bankruptcy!
Deficits dont matter, Reagan proved that!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:37 pmAUDIT THE FED says:
“All we get is rationed care!”
you already got it, shitstain. only now it’s a very nice man from aetna deciding what care you’re going to get.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:38 pmvery sensitive, on the TBagger’s part. very empathetic. Very aware. Very compassionate. I bet these people even go to church. I love, love, love it when we blame the sick for being ill and the poor for having no money. Or, for that matter, the woman, when she gets raped, etc.
From Barbara Ehrenreich on Alternet: “Manufactured optimism has become a method to make the poor feel guilty for their poverty, the ill for their lack of health and the victims of corporate layoffs for their inability to find worthwhile jobs. Megachurches preach the “gospel of prosperity,” exhorting poor people to visualize financial success. Corporations have abandoned rational decision-making in favor of charismatic leadership.”
Link: http://www.alternet.org/story/144114/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_our_maniacal_optimism_is_ruining_the_world
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:39 pmvery sensitive, on the TBagger’s part. very empathetic. Very aware. Very compassionate. I bet these people even go to church. I love, love, love it when we blame the sick for being ill and the poor for having no money. Or, for that matter, the woman, when she gets raped, etc.
From Barbara Ehrenreich on Alternet: “Manufactured optimism has become a method to make the poor feel guilty for their poverty, the ill for their lack of health and the victims of corporate layoffs for their inability to find worthwhile jobs. Megachurches preach the “gospel of prosperity,” exhorting poor people to visualize financial success. Corporations have abandoned rational decision-making in favor of charismatic leadership.”
Link: http://www.alternet.org/story/144114/barbara_ehrenreich%3A_our_maniacal_optimism_is_ruining_the_world
Mo Rage, The blog
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:39 pmThere will still be millions uninsured!
And you will still saying “Welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order?” with NO insurance.
Man, I never get tired of that joke.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:40 pmF***ing COWARDS!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:41 pmP.D. says:
And these people vote in record numbers.
That has been the conventional wisdom but there’s some room for optimism. These are the same 20% that Fallwell and Robertson delivered to Raygun and the GOP in the late 70’s. They are only formidable when the sane public is complacent and doesn’t turn out to vote.
What’s more? Their ignorance, fear, and hate is causing them to turn on each other in light of recent failures. They are demonstrating many signs that they are ready to explode into splinter groups. Look at how many of our trolls have apparently abandoned the GOP. If the radical teabaggers split from the GOP then neither will retain viability. Despite all the vile crap they spew I continue to be encouraged by their continued plunge to the extreme. (As long as they aren’t tossing bombs.)
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:42 pmI hope with all my heart that every ugly stupid teabagging idiot in that audience who harassed that poor woman loses someone dear to them in the same horrible fashion.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:43 pmconservative guy says:STORM
hey were you go????
though we were connecting.
shaking my head i feel so let down…..
NOT
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pmReichwing racist hate radio and Fox has brainwashed the all humanity out of the low life cretins.
I hate these tea bagger scum and wish cancer on the lot of them.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:45 pmSince I’m on Medicare I have carefully read every bit of the bill that relates to me. Suffice to say: the stupid troll is lying and spreading the lies of other liars. There’s nothing that a reasonably informed and honest reader could possibly construe as rationing of Medicare services.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:45 pmI don’t wish nothing on these teabaggers…their lives are miserable and they are the worse for it for not realizing it…yet…the best thing to do it to make them and their hatred obsolete…sideline them…
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:49 pmOT
If you are interested, check the replay of hardball later — Matthews is interviewing the bishop who said Kennedy should be refused the catholic sacrament of communion.
Matthews has clearly thought this out and has skewered the bishop –”render unto caesar….”
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:49 pmThe bishop was truly flummoxed.
What punishment would he mete out to a young girl who had an abortion – if abortion were criminal, as the priest views it, should she go to prison for murder? Of course not, says Matthews, as he points out the total fallacy and ignorance of the bishop who has failed to convince his flock through “teaching” and now wants to use the law to force the issue.
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Man oh man!
Where to begin with these idiots? What teabaggers, only “well” and “uneducated” er…”people” are welcome at your bs?
This is the reason why we need HCR, your ignorant rat bythces.
Every freaking thing you teabaggers do is destined to the shit pile.
Fakeass, phonyass, gutless imbeciles.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 pmPilot@71, Yeah, they certainly took off didn’t they? Cowards.
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AUDIT THE FED says:
Uuuuuuh you didn’t read that part about comparative effectiveness and “death panels” lol… You think that sh*t is a joke? They’re gonna tell your doctor what to do…
No but you and your troll partners are!
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:55 pmA big bad joke.
P.D. says:
Pilot@71, Yeah, they certainly took off didn’t they? Cowards.
yes i`m wondering if it was the drinking of a beer that scared them off or the understanding they had there heads in there 4th point of contact.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pmWell, the Rasmussen poll, despite its headline that 38% of VOTERS disapprove
Well, at the bottom of the page STORM linked to we find this:
This national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports November 21-22, 2009. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pmThis is the biggest problem facing Republicans on health care. they are rightly seen as either pronouncing themselves or backing groups that espouse purely anti-mainstream ideas about medical care and who is “worthy” enough to receive it. Most Americans see it as a right, while the GOP clearly endorses the opinions that it is a privilege for the wealthy (and healthy).
http://www.political-buzz.com/
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pmThey’re gonna tell your doctor what to do…
The private insurance folks already are, thru rescission, even if you paid your premiums. Their answer is simple. NO.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:00 pmThis national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports November 21-22, 2009. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage
it happens to be the same 1000 they always call. ever poll always the same 1000.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:01 pmI find the Rasmussen poll quite misleading. It polls one thousand people.
In what states? In what district? In what age group?
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:03 pmit happens to be the same 1000 they always call. ever poll always the same 1000.
I have oft wondered about that meself
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:05 pmIs Rasmussen one of the outfits that polls 50% registered Dems and 50% registered Reps?
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:09 pmCalls are placed to randomly-selected phone numbers through a process that insures appropriate geographic representation. Typically, calls are placed from 5 pm to 9 pm local time during the week. Saturday calls are made from 11 am to 6 pm local time and Sunday calls from 1 pm to 9 pm local time.
After the calls are completed, the raw data is processed through a weighting program to insure that the sample reflects the overall population in terms of age, race, gender, political party, and other factors. The processing step is required because different segments of the population answer the phone in different ways. For example, women answer the phone more than men, older people are home more and answer more than younger people, and rural residents typically answer the phone more frequently than urban residents.
In other words, the automated message doesnt know WHO its talking to and the results are ‘WEIGHTED’ by some obscure method.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:14 pmSo, like Standard & Poor, the end result, rating, lies in pleasing those who pay for your service, I reckon.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pmhttp://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/about_us/methodology
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Okay, lets have an up down vote by the public.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pmRasmussen Reports determines its partisan weighting targets through a dynamic weighting system that takes into account the state’s voting history, national trends, and recent polling in a particular state or geographic area.
In Twains words, Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:17 pmThere is one bright side to this picture – every tea-bagger is going to die and will bankrupt their family for “the cause” in the process. They don’t look after their family or other Americans because once they are dead, why bother?
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:18 pmWhat’s really important is the paired shot gun and rifle in the rear window of their pick-up truck.
Okay:
Rasmussen Bot: [Calls Iowa] Hello, do you like pigs?
Unknown voice, party affiliation, age: Yes
Rasmussen: Thru weighting we determined the unknown to be a old, conservative pig in a rural area.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:20 pmThe new data shows that if you are lucky enough to live to 65 and collect Medicare your chances of surviving to a ripe old age are very good. What is wrong with a country that only values the lives of the elderly and treats those who work for a living, sometimes 2 or 3 jobs leaving their kids with daycare providers like they are scum. 70 years ago women of child bearing age routinely predeceased their spouses because of the problems of childbirth and related diseases. Obviously we’re moving back to those days as shown by the death of this young woman with complication due to pregnancy.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:21 pmPolled by Rasmussen: No, no I am a young pot smoking hippy who lives on a farm, with no insurance, I raise my own pigs!!
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 pmMost people I know don’t even own land lines any more. The people answering polls are the old sh#ts sitting home all day worrying about their own Medicare and telling the rest of us to hurry up and die. It cost me $12.5k a year for health insurance. And all I hear about is how this might cost Medicare recipients a few dollars. Half of them probably never made that much in a year and so they didn’t pay that much into the system. But they got to save their money and live off it now and we’ll never be able to.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:24 pmWalt, I think it was you, IIRC, that created a program to count the people in the 912 DC mall picture?
If so, what do you think of the Rasmussen methodology of weighting the unknown?
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:24 pmI am at a loss as to why the teabaggers are showing up to town halls in Chicago. All of the representatives for the city are Dems and the city is alway carried by the Dems. The teabaggers are not going to intimidate the Dem congressmen.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:25 pmDam>>> I think i will go home..
nun of the trolls wants to play any more>>> is it some thing i said???
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:26 pmHeres what I am thinking, it doesnt matter if anyone answers the phone if your weighting program decides the person on the other end doesnt match the pre-concieved demographic.
Why bother calling at all? Just pick some random phone numbers and run with it. Call and hangup as soon as they pick up the phone.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:38 pmI heard a caller on the Ed show today say that his small business health insurance rates are going up 47%. Looks like the for-profit health insurance industry is going to stick it to us while they still can. Too bad they don’t see how much that is hurting their cause because they are proving our point.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 pmDreadful people.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 pmI heard a caller on the Ed show today say that his small business health insurance rates are going up 47%
We should buy Aaronk, STORM and conservative guy a beer so they can celebrate.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:58 pmAt another recent event, Hough told Gov. Pat Quinn (D-IL) that she has been “personally attacked” by tea party activists at her home address.
Does anyone know where Glenn Beck lives? We need to pay him a visit.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 pmWe have to remember the GOP has worked hard to brainwash people into being heartless. We have changed as a Country as Bush/Cheney worked like Satan collecting their army. The Teabaggers and others wont get it until they meet our Makers and it will be to late. Many more people will die because of the GOP stalling Health Care. May God have mercy on their souls and those who support them.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:20 pmOkay, lets have an up down vote by the public.
WITH SINGLE PAYER OPTION.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:20 pmTo be blunt, these people can go F–k themselves.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:32 pmxisithrus,
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:38 pmThe Rasmussen tracking poll is only as good as the questions that are asked. Are you satisfied with the current health care plan leaves too many options open. Is it insufficient or is it too much that is basis for dissatisfaction?
Wow. Just…wow. The hypocrisy of these so-called ‘caring’ Christians is staggering.
I hope true Christians watch this, and watch it again once they finish, to see the face of their religion, and I hope they reconsider taking it back from these losers. Seriously.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 pmAccording to modern conservatives’ heroine Ayn Rand, this is only logical. Because they didn’t have the money to pay for insurance, they were obviously less valuable and not worthy of compassion or life. Objectivism says that the only rational measure of a person’s value is money, so without it, people obviously aren’t fit even to live. This is also why they can continue to justify the despicable policies of insurance execs, canceling even the best of policies when the time comes to pay up. Those who make money, they say, deserve to do anything, anything at all, to keep making money.
Rand conservatism is a cancer that needs to be extinguished and quickly.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:06 pm111. verskk,
Unfortunately, I think you’re right.
But even if I were to accept Rand’s outlook, I still don’t have to be cruel about it. I could just let the lady die in silence.
These people have no shame whatsover.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:35 pmDid I hear right that she said her 24 year old daughter ?
Seems rather young. Which leads me to think that she may carry one of the genetic markers of interest.
I’m thinking along the lines that this could be used to argue that anyone in that family has a “pre-existing condition” and be summarily refused any health insurance.
So much for the troll saying to buy insurance.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 pmTea-baggers are so hateful they don’t deserve to be called Americans. What disgusting excuses for human beings. They will kill the GOP, which is, at present, a good thing.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 pmBlanche Lincoln sounds like a middle school fakeass.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 pmTheir entire position is ‘we hate liberals.’
They have no coherent vision of health care–they have no vision of this country.
They’re opposed to health care reform because liberals want it.
It doesn’t matter that they’d benefit by it personally–it doesn’t matter that they are on the knife-edge if they get sick.
It doesn’t even matter that we tumble down the chute to second-class nation status.
Liberals want it–liberals are in charge–and ‘we hate liberals!”
Devout fundies ally themselves with atheist Randists. It makes no sense at all–unless their only idea is ‘we hate liberals.’ The fundies and the Randists would put each other in camps–were it not for their common enemy.
We’ve had people organizing teabagger demonstrations who’ve declared bankruptcy and who were living on SSI disability–not to mention the geezers on Medicare. It would seem to make no sense at all, unless you realize that what they’re saying is not ‘personal responsibility!’ or ‘no deficit spending!’ but ‘we hate liberals!’
They’ll follow absolutely any idiot or charlatan, as long as they say that. They’ll support people who despise them. They have no principles except knuckle-dragging opposition.
It’s all they’ve got.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:34 pmRE 113. Maplestreet:
AArgh – just saw the report on Olbermann and realized that I had cancer on the brain from another news item.
Realize that the death was due to pneumonia. (And pneumonia / septic shock / etc. happens in 24 YO).
Otherwise, I still hold that simple human feelings would prevent me from booing. Not to mention that a suspicious family history, in and of itself, could be dangerously close to a pre-existing condition.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:36 pmTell me why health insurance providers should be uber rich off the sick?
Why should we pay for their greed?
ANSWER ME TEATARDS!
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:57 pmThe trolls have nothing to add. Just vote their dumb ass down and don’t engage. They are so shallow that they will wallow in their shit for awhile and disappear. They will reappear, the sad excuses for humans will want attention. Just keep ignoring. The pitiful lot will eventually go the way of the dodo bird! Let them go. That is where they belong. Good by Conservative Guy and your ilk.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 pmOSTL says:
KRAS: What do Earth men offer you? What have you obtained from them in the past? Powders and liquids for the sick? We Klingons believe as you do. The sick should die. Only the strong should live. Earthmen have promised to teach the youth of your tribes many things. What? What things? Cleverness against enemies? The use of weapons?
Star Trek
Friday’s Child
Stardate: 3497.2
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We could learn a lot from the Klingons.
So if you get sick, you should not take any medicine, do anything to save your life? If your insurance company decides to give you the rescission treatment, you should just go home and die like a good Klingon…okay…
Now for those in the real world, perhaps this is something we should change…
November 24th, 2009 at 1:03 amKeith olbermann did a really good job on calling the leader of this group for what she is “the Worst person in the World”. For her it is probably a badge of honor, but for the Hough’s and the rest of us, it is the shame of the tea party movement. They are a sham. There is nothing American about their lack of compassion.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:44 amSTORM says:
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Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
Try again.
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2009/11/health-care-polling-reveals-uncertainty.html
It’s all in how you view the numbers or ask the questions.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:01 amOSTL says:
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We could learn a lot from the Klingons.
Yeahhhh…’cuz Franklin Roosevelt, Stephen Hawking, and Michael J. Fox contributed soooo little to our world. /rollseyes
November 24th, 2009 at 2:08 amConservatives hate our country and act like Taliban Terrorists…
November 24th, 2009 at 2:14 amWow, this is definately a new low, even for teabaggers!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:50 am