Re: Henry Hyde A Conviction Politician

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:26:59 -0800, Rita <Rita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:26:40 -0800 (PST), Capitalist Pig
<cochon-capitaliste@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

WSJ REVIEW & OUTLOOK


November 30, 2007; Page A16
'He was a commanding presence, and he was a man of consequence,"
President Bush said earlier this month, when he awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Illinois Representative Henry
Hyde. It was a fitting tribute to a man whose career in Congress was
more consequential than most.

Hyde, who died yesterday at 83, made one of his biggest marks in 1976,
when as a freshman Congressman he championed an amendment to ban
federal funding of abortion -- this just three years after Roe v.
Wade. Four years later the Supreme Court upheld the Hyde Amendment,
thereby allowing that there were some limits to the right it had
brought into being in 1973.

In 1998, Hyde shepherded the impeachment of Bill Clinton through the
House Judiciary Committee, braving vicious attacks in the media. One
online magazine dredged up 30-year-old gossip about him, and a
Hollywood celebrity told Conan O'Brien on national television: "If we
were in other countries, . . . all of us together would go down to
Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! . . . We would
stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill
their wives and their children!" Talk about the politics of personal
destruction.

Although he was a conservative, he sometimes dissented from the party
line. He was skeptical of Mr. Bush's democracy-promotion agenda, and
in 1995, as part of the new Republican majority, he opposed the term-
limits plank in the Contract With America. This page supports term
limits, but we'll admit that Henry Hyde's 32-year Congressional career
is one of the better arguments against them.

You can see a photo of Hyde with his youthful indiscretion
here:

http://tinyurl.com/2nxt6p



The top sidebar story is very interesting too,
"Loyal to the end", of Susan McDougal who
refused to testify for Ken Starr and spent 18
months in jail for that, though she had always
said she'd be willing to testify in open court.
Here's an excerpt:

Kenneth Starr "didn't care whose life he
ruined to get Bill Clinton. I knew the report
would have to be salacious,"

That's exactly what I've always thought of
Starr. He's a rotten ***.


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