Yes, teabaggers would sink so low as to heckle a grieving mother

Not that anyone needs more proof that the American “patriots” known as teabaggers are a pathetic bunch of classless lowlives, but in case you were asking for another chance to get rightfully riled at them, here you go: watch as they publicly heckle, taunt, and even laugh at, a grieving mother who denounces what lack of healthcare coverage did to her daughter, who died from an easily preventable illness along with her unborn child. From the town hall meeting held by Congressman Dan Lipinski on November 14, which was unfortunately attended by the Chicago Tea Party “Patriots”:

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.

They openly insult, shout at and laugh at a mother whose daughter died with her own unborn child, due to lack of appropriate healthcare.

How much lower can these fuckwits sink?

Some argue that they (teabaggers) were simply exasperated after hearing tragedy after tragedy. Yes, admittedly, it must be difficult to bear hearing the heartbreaking stories of fellow civilians who go through terrible hardships, suffering and death as a result of the sort of shitty healthcare system the teabaggers are all too happy to have and keep around. But nonetheless, if they truly were just tired of hearing the same sob stories over and over again, is it really hard to find a way to express said discontentment, without actually heckling a grieving mother? For fuck’s sake?!

(via @todayspolitics)
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