Tell us how bad you're going to miss Henry Hyde

[WileEcoyote]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20071129/pl_bloomberg/a547whfknuto_1

Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. Representative Henry Hyde, who led the impeachment inquiry of President Bill Clinton and helped block federal funding for abortions during 16 terms in office, died this morning. He was 83.
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Mary Ann Schultz, a spokeswoman for Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, said he died in his sleep at the hospital at about 2:30 a.m. local time. Hyde succumbed to cardiac arrest after being admitted to the hospital on Nov. 25 for renal failure related to a heart condition, she said. He underwent open-heart bypass surgery in July.



Breaks my heart! Whatever will we do without this great American?

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. They'll be Hydeing Henry in the near future.

[bbinacan]

2. Even though I disagreed

with him, I always felt he stood by his convictions, and was basically a good guy. RIP Congressman Hyde.

[PsN2Wind]

5. The "good guy"

was holier than thou in leading the impeachment of Clinton. Then it was discovered the pious prick had had his own little affair described by him as a "youthful indiscretion".................in his forties.

[bbinacan]

8. BUT, did he commit perjury, obstruction

and basically lied his ass off. I have a big problem with this. He just should have fessed up.

[gratuitous]

17. Really?

I must have missed all those crimes Clinton was convicted of. Got a cite, because my history books show that not one of the articles of impeachment against Clinton garnered even a majority vote, much less the 67 votes that would have been required for conviction and removal.

[PsN2Wind]

19. No just blatant hypocrisy.

N/T

[calimary]

16. Ummm... can't go there. I didn't see much evidence of him being a good guy.

And then when he came out and admitted that the persecution of Clinton was little more than payback for Nixon, it made me realize just what a small "man" henry hyde really was. Nothing but a partisan pissant who holds grudges and keeps scores. And nobody puffed himself up more as a big-ass "Christian" "moralist" than he did. Damned near broke his arm patting himself on the back. Sanctimonious putz! HYPOCRITICAL sanctimonious putz - him with his sleazy little affair that actually did break up a marriage, going after Clinton, whose marriage was in one way or other solid enough to hold, and whose bimbo eruptions didn't push anyone else's marriage onto the rocks, either.

I would not want THAT "representing" me.

[depakid]

3. For all the suffering that he caused

Seems to me he got off easy.

Good thing I'm not king, for if I were, the threefold rule would apply.

[Kucinich4America]

4. I heard a rumor that Hyde is already trying to impeach Satan

:evilgrin:

[TomInTib]

6. Kinda like missing a bout with kidney stones..

Good riddance, you miserable old bastard.

[spag68]

15. I had a kidney stone

It was the worst. Hyde was kind of like a bad rash.

[cloudbase]

7. I'll let you know later.

First, I'm going to take a nap.

[WileEcoyote]

9. Heh heh heh

[AlCzervik]

10. i like to grieve in private.

[Tejanocrat]

12. me too

[razors edge]

11. About as much

as an excised Limbau.

[unkachuck]

13. dear old Heinrich....

....bought the farm....I weep for you, I truly do....not really....

....they say the hydester, '...died in his sleep at the hospital at about 2:30 a.m.'....we should all go so peacefully....he was 83; proving once again, the good die young....

....16 terms of Republican havoc should guarantee him a very special place in the hereafter....

[Jim Sagle]

14. I'll miss him almost half as much as the shit I took this morning.

[Spirochete]

18. I don't know...

did Dr. Jeckyll die too?

[PlanetBev]

20. Not. One. Bit.

I remember the name of the first victim of the Hyde Amendment. Her name was Rosie Jimenez and she was 27 years old. Couldn't get an abortion because of the federal funding block, so the El Paso resident went over the border to Juarez, and got an illegal abortion from some butcher for a few Pesos. Died a few days later from a botched job. She was a student at the time, trying to better her life.

Hyde was a cruel prick and a mother-fucker who brought nothing to the table except human misery and suffering.