House remembers Rep. Hyde

Oh please. Enough with the hagiography already.

Henry Hypocrite Hyde: Tireless champion of blastocyst Americans.

Dear Weinerless:

Thanks for continuing to show the world that the Loony Left Jerks are also classless jerks.

Hyde was a tool. He dies having been one and, thus, will always be.

That sounds harsh, but in reality it is what Hyde chose.

Like most in Congress, Hyde was about saving his seat. And when your life revolves around saving a seat, you become a tool of the forces that help you keep that seat.

And so it is a fair assessment of Hyde and most people in Congress.

A number of others have posted this elsewhere, but it's the only fitting thing that can be said for him:
“When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there’ll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world — and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, ‘Spare him, because he loved us!’”

Pray for the peaceful repose of Henry Hyde's soul.

Speaking of presidental politics, I just came across this interview with Henry Hyde before he died... he actually admitted that in retrospect, he probably would not have gone as far as impeachment, and that a resolution was enough! Hind sight really is 20/20.

DOUGLASS: In retrospect looking back at what came out to the public, what is your
view of it now?

HYDE: In retrospect, a lot of things could have been done differently. Senator Feinstein put
together a resolution really condemning the President—it was far more, volatile, shall we say,
than our bill of impeachment. I oppose that, in retrospect I probably should not, I probably
should have let that pass and gone, because I knew we couldn’t get the votes to remove him
from office. But we had to do the best we could do and we did. But retrospectively, that
resolution, I didn’t think it was Constitutional—there’s no provision in the Constitution for
Congress giving a report card on the Executive as such. We all do every election, but a lot of
things would be done differently. I would have insisted on the right of our counsel to take the
deposition of Ms. Lewinsky. But the senators wanted us to get out of town as quickly as we
could, and they wouldn’t give us permission and they really ran the impeachment trial under
the law.

DOUGLASS: Why in retrospect would you now, if you had it to do over again, support
what was much more of a reprimand, but was not impeachment?

HYDE: Because it was doeable, and impeachment was not. Impeachment was—we knew we
couldn’t win. We got, we did impeach, the House did vote to impeach, and so there will always
be an asterisk after President Clinton’s name. And that is no small accomplishment. But all
things considered, in retrospect, perhaps the resolution would have been enough.

http://www.nyu.edu/brademas/resources/research.html

Thanks for continuing to show the world that the Loony Left Jerks are also classless jerks.
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Like guys that destroy families, and then blame it on "youthful indiscretion" even though it happened when the perpetrator was over 40 years old? And then impeaching a man for a similar offense, even though he was younger than the other offender? Yah. You're sure grounded in reality.