Henry Hyde just died

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Source: CSPAN

CSPAN just announced it live. no link yet

No link yet.

[bemildred]

1. Say nothing ill of the dead. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. that will make this a short thread, won't it?

being an Illinoisian, I am biting my tongue

[niceypoo]

94. OK, but he WAS a prick while he was alive.....

My condolences to his family

[DS1]

4. An adultering hypocrite is still an adultering hypocrite whether he's hard or soft

[hatrack]

5. Except when Karl Rove dies . . .

I'll be speaking PLENTY of ill then.

But for now . . .

[Raster]

31. When kkkarl rove dies there will be dancing in the streets.

And that's just his immediate family.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

45. how will be able to tell if his life functions cease?

that's what I want to know.

[Demeter]

48. Are You Thinking About Cheney?

Good question.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

73. Rove, Cheney, I believe they were spawned by the same witch.

I just forget whether she was from the East or the West.

[AllyCat]

79. No self-respecting witch would spawn either of these jerks.

Please don't say mean things like that about witches.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

88. I apologize.

my deceased grannie was a witch. Every time I got sick, she had a dream that a car drove by splashing mud on me. She predicted events (weird ones) repeatedly and on paper. kennedy's death? she said it a week before. too many events to list.

but she was a good witch.

[AllyCat]

95. Sounds like a neat lady! n/t

[niceypoo]

103. When Rove dies Satan will complain about the stench...

[WritersBlock]

104. DUzy alert!

:rofl:

[Lasher]

7. n/t

[yellowcanine]

10. Why not? The fact that he is dead doesn't erase his shameful performance in impeaching Clinton.

I am serious. I am not going to go to a memorial service for him and bring it up but I don't see why just because someone has died we have to shut up about all of the harm they may have done.

[bemildred]

15. OK, go ahead, knock yourself out. nt

[boricua79]

25. agreeed...

I doubt Henry Hyde would care much about YOUR death. Don't be a fool and care about HIS memory.

I will leave his judgment to the Creator.

[0007]

47. applauding loudly! nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

76. Totally agree! nt

[AllyCat]

80. Don't forget his fancy footwork in the anti-abortion arena.

I said the same thing "don't speak ill of the dead, don't speak ill of the dead" and then I thought about all the misery he has caused people and decided it was okay to call him what he is/was...a hypocritical asshole.

[XanaDUer]

83. Bingo!

Fuck him, dead or alive.

EDITED TO ADD:

Rosie Jiminez was the name of the first poor woman known to have died due to an illegal abortion after passage of the Hyde amendment:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/10/hyde_intro.html

So, let me reiterate-fuck him, dead or alive.

[Zhade]

85. Truth about evil actions is critical.

They MUST be spoken ill of if they earned it, so that history remembers their deeds.

Suggesting people remain silent due to some misplaced respect for the dead robs the future of truth.

[Burma Jones]

26. Well, hmmmmm, something nice.......

He lived a long time for someone that grossly obese

Sorry, that's all I got.....

[stlsaxman]

82. well i hope he was enjoying himself when his heart went kaput...

like having an orgasm with a hooker in his lap.

THE most fitting way for a "family values" hypocrite of the highest order to die.

[msanthrope]

91. To paraphrase the Immortal Bette Davis: Henry Hyde is dead. Good!

"You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good!" Bette Davis

[DainBramaged]

3. May I be the first to wish his family my condolences

But that he rot in hell. Fucking scumbag.

Sorry folks, he was a scumbag.

[entanglement]

6. That rhymes n/t

[UpInArms]

8. buh-bye henry

wish I could feel some sorrow - but ... just wish you had left us all a bit earlier.

[bigscott]

12. like 10 years earlier

disgusting POS that he was

Oh yeah, RIP

[hadrons]

9. The world because a slighty better place ... nicest thing I can think of him

[MurrayDelph]

11. In times like these

I quote the late, great, Jackie "Moms" Mabley:

Don't say anything about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good.

[AlCzervik]

13. and from Steel Magnolias-"If you don't have anything good to say, come sit by me"

[calimary]

36. I once heard that quote attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

It's one of my favorites, 'cause it always makes me laugh!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

46. you mean it wasn't Barbara Bush?

[calimary]

93. No, But it was probably said ABOUT barbara bush.

:evilgrin:

[NMLobo]

18. arrgh!

You beat me to it Murray. :evilgrin:

[calimary]

38. Welcome to DU!

Arrgh, indeed!

[deutsey]

19. I usually refrain from these dance-on-the-grave threads

but that's funny.

[Tyler Durden]

14. The evil that men do lives after them.

The good is oft interred with their bones.

In Hyde's case, it will not be a crowded coffin; there will be plenty of room.

[420inTN]

16. Link

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-hydeobit_webnov30,0,1320367.story?coll=chi_breaking_500

[davsand]

17. May his soul find justice (whatever that may be.)

My sympathies to anyone who feels pain at his departure from this earth, however, I really do hope that he finally sees justice for all that he did in this life. He hurt a lot of people with his politics--especially poor women. I do hope that he can ultimately find peace with himself.





Laura

[cyclezealot]

20. did not know he was sick

guess he did have a blubber belly. Must have been a heart attack. He was always first to the table.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. As our parents told us, when one has nothing good to say....

...it is best to say nothing at all.

[kansasblue]

22. Who? Info on Henry Hyde here.

Henry John Hyde (April 18, 1924 - November 29, 2007), an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois.

He chaired the the Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001, the House International Relations Committee from 2001 to 2007. He died on November 29, 2007 at around 3 A.M.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hyde

[orleans]

34. ah, but there is more...so much more... n/t

[yurbud]

23. he has gone to lobby the congress of the angels...

or the house of horned and hoofed republicans.

[madrchsod]

24. no problem

the people of his district has replaced him with someone just as bad. those who followed the election of this guy know what happened

[demnan]

27. Hell just got a a new resident

n/t

[yellowcanine]

28. Oh I would not go that far. But I also don't think he is making happy with any virgins either.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. Soul judging is something I leave to the other side...

I'll just say that God will make God's own judgment on his soul, and we as humans cannot speculate as to what that judgment may be, good or bad.

[Arugula Latte]

97. Why insist there will be a supernatural judgment?

More likely, when you die, you just cease to be. That's it. Kaput. End of story.

[yellowcanine]

99. But your legacy lives on. And Hyde's is self rightous hypocritical adulterer.

[DinahMoeHum]

29. "Where there is a dead body, the vultures will gather"

Matthew 24:28

[orleans]

35. comforting words

Henry Hyde and Cherie Snodgrass at a Chicago nightspot in the late 1960s.

[Zhade]

86. What bullshit - as if not letting misdeeds slip into the memory hole makes people "vultures".

No surprise, coming from the worst fiction ever written.

[DinahMoeHum]

92. At least vultures have a purpose in the natural world. . .

to dispose of the carcass.

:evilgrin:

[Guaranteed]

96. People who immediately jump to judge a person on their death

are vultures. Doesn't matter who the person is. You don't fucking do that. You're just using death as an excuse to be a dick.

It's a sickening aspect of humanity.

[GregW]

30. Ahh yes... let's walk down memory lane and read the article...

That only Salon was brave enough to publish - kinda put them on the map.

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_16newsb.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

32. great find.

i had forgotten all those nasty tidbits.

[boricua79]

33. god knows the pain Mr Hyde put Mr. Snodgrass through

on second thought, screw him. May worms avoid his body.

[Cassandra]

43. I know, actually.

My great-aunt was an old friend of husband and she said he begged Hyde to leave his wife alone for the sake of their children, but Hyde refused to his face. He was very bitter.

[Bluebear]

37. Ciao, Hank.

[rockybelt]

39. I don't have anything good to say either

YEAH! Another one bites the dust! Keep 'em coming. Come on George, come on Dick, come on!!:bounce: :toast: :bounce:

[MissMillie]

40. RIP.... and condolences to the family (n/t)

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[BenDavid]

41. cleared conscience.WJC impeachment payback for Nixon

[mitchum]

44. Rest In Dirt

[PM Martin]

49. Bad people don't deserve condolences.

[Gman]

50. Former Rep. Henry Hyde Is Dead at 83

Source: NY Times

Former Rep. Henry Hyde Is Dead at 83

Published: November 29, 2007

Filed at 10:54 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and championed government restrictions on the funding of abortions, died Thursday. He was 83.
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Hyde retired from Congress at the end of the last session. Earlier this month, President Bush presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House praised Hyde, a leading foe of abortion, as a ''powerful defender of life'' and an advocate for a strong national defense.

''He was a gallant champion of the weak and forgotten, and a fearless defender of life in all its seasons,'' Bush said of Hyde that day.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-Hyde.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

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''He was a gallant champion of the weak and forgotten, and a fearless defender of life in all its seasons,'' Bush said of Hyde that day.

WHAT? In what phucking dimension of the universe did this happen??

In any event, as a good Democrat I say may God rest his soul.

[DemKR]

51. "Weak and forgotten" = fetuses and corporations

[paulk]

52. another one gone from my personal top ten most despised

politicians.

Rest in peace, asshole.

[Zywiec]

53. An additional Henry Hyde bashing thread can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2369042&mesg_id=2369042

[Wapsie B]

54. Clyde Federal Savings & Loan was his baby

and with all the money laundering that went with it. Another repug who never had to answer for his crimes.

May he RIP and all that but still............

[MnFats]

55. gallant champion, my ass. remember his 'youthful indescretion?"

he's pursuing President Clinton from pillar to post, making all this pious, sanctimoious noise about morality and oval office encounters...

Turns out he had an affair that busted up two marriages as well.

He called it a 'youthul indescretion.:

He was in his 40s at the time...

[bunkerbuster1]

56. From the Times piece, and I'm glad they included it:

Hyde saw his own reputation tarnished during the process when an online magazine revealed that he'd had his own affair with a married woman some 30 years before. Hyde, in his early 40s at the time of the affair, brushed it off as a ''youthful indiscretion.''

Hyde also had a potentially more serious brush with scandal. He was among 12 former directors and officers of the Clyde Federal Savings and Loan who were sued for gross negligence by federal regulators after the 1990 failure of the North Riverside, Ill.-based institution. That failure cost taxpayers an estimated $68 million.

Hyde, who left the S&L in 1984, insisted he engaged in no wrongdoing and was the only director who refused to contribute to an $850,000 settlement that led to the lawsuit's dismissal in 1997.

[pscot]

57. The best kind of republican

R.I.P.

[Gato Moteado]

59. amen to that

nt

[Ian David]

58. May he get his Just Reward. n/t

[Gato Moteado]

60. may he rot in hell....err, i mean rest in peace

good riddance to bad garbage.

[David Zephyr]

61. Henry Hyde's limo would pull up to the trailer to pick up a poor man's wife to have sex with.

While the husband was there. I have nothing good to say about this man.

He was not only a rotten human being and a bad lawmaker, he was the grandest of all hypocrites.

[BenDavid]

62. Least he admitted impeachment of clinton was payback -Nixon

[scarface2004]

63. another one bites the dust!

good riddance...fat bastard!

[mitchum]

64. Rest In Dirt

[grasswire]

65. I assume his deathbed agony was filled with remorse...

...for all his evil deeds against other people, against Bill Clinton, and against democracy itself.

[regnaD kciN]

66. "Always speak good of the dead"...

He's dead. Good.

:evilgrin:

[bumblebee1]

67. Is that you, Bette Davis?

n/t

[Magleetis]

68. Farewell

to a liar and a hypocrite.

[democrat2thecore]

69. RIP - An imperfect human being - like us ALL - nt

[KamaAina]

70. De mortuis nil nisi bonum

Of the dead, (say) nothing but good. Hence:

(eom)

[PlanetBev]

71. Anti-choice hypocrite...

Say hi to Falwell for me.

[mvd]

72. No big sympathy for him from me, but..

I can think about the loss his family had.

[LynneSin]

74. Say hello to Jerry Falwell when you get to hell

sorry, there is nothing I can say positive about a man.

[Doctor_J]

75. When Hank was an IL assemblyman, he gave his perk scholarships to the kids of his mistress

who was also married. Can we sue his heirs to get the money back?

[superconnected]

77. Wish it was ken starr...

[Mountainman]

78. I fell nothing but contempt for him, RIP Henry

[Raine]

81. No comment

I won't be a hypocrite like Hyde and offer phony sympathy or say a nice lie but I won't let him bring out the worst in me so...no comment.

[olddad56]

84. Hnery Hyde just died, Henry Hyde just died, Henry Hyde just died...

And nobody cried, Oh, nobody cried when Henry Hyde died.

[lunatica]

87. He did his part to tarnish this country

I have no sadness or tears for him. He was a despicable man and the worst kind of hypocrite who just couldn't help himself when it came to soiling Congress with his wailing pretense of claiming he wanted to protect "the children" while making sure Clinton's sex life was the subject at every opportunity. Too bad he can't take that stain he was so happy to smear on this country with him. Let his memory live in infamy.

[matcom]

89. I just poured my second scotch

coincidence?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

90. cheers, mate. So did I.

probably.

[Doctor_J]

98. And these "tragedies" always come in 3's

who's next?

[Superman Returns]

102. hmmm

Sean Taylor and Evel Kneievel?

[fujiyama]

100. The best I can say about him

is that he wasn't Tom DeLay or Ann Coulter....

But he was scum. And being dead doesn't make him any less of it.

[Seabiscuit]

101. ::blubber blubber::

:cry: :cry:


:nopity:

I guess after so many years of sticking his head so far up his ass it got stuck in all that blubber and the docs couldn't remove it so he suffocated.