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Former Rep. Henry Hyde Is Dead at 83
AP via NY Times ^
| November 29, 2007
| AP
Posted on 11/29/2007 8:43:01 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: abortion; alreadyposted; congress; henryhyde; house; hyde; obituary; prolife; unborn
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RIP
To: JohnLongIsland
Rest in peace Henry! Thanks for serving the country during the impeachment debacle. Pity the Senators didn’t do their jobs.
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posted on
11/29/2007 8:43:52 AM PST
by
sauropod
("A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to kiss ass" - Paul Begala on pandering)
To: JohnLongIsland
God Bless his soul. May the Lord welcome him with open arms.
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posted on
11/29/2007 8:45:43 AM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(If Rudy's an influential conservative, then I'm an award winning concert pianist.)
To: ElkGroveDan
So, I guess Alec Baldwin can put down the stones?
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posted on
11/29/2007 8:46:50 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: JohnLongIsland
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posted on
11/29/2007 8:54:57 AM PST
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: JohnLongIsland
Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
To: JohnLongIsland
RIP, Henry. You did us proud.
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posted on
11/29/2007 8:58:24 AM PST
by
Dahoser
(America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
To: Dahoser
Thank you for all you did, sir. RIP
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:00:59 AM PST
by
debboo
(Stop socialism, vote conservative)
To: JohnLongIsland
RIP Henry, I loved your speech on the Rule of Law, it really hit home with me.
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:04:37 AM PST
by
Nowhere Man
(RIP, Corky, I miss you, little princess!!! (Corky b. 5-12-1989 - d. 9-21-2007))
To: JohnLongIsland
RIP Henry Hyde!
A good soul who will be missed.
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:05:28 AM PST
by
rottndog
(Let us NEVER forget those who have paid the highest price, that we may live in FREEDOM!)
To: debboo
We have lost a real hero. May he have a rich reward. One of the highlights of my life was meeting this man, who seemed larger than life, at the Dinner for the House Managers. I will cherish the pictures of him that I had taken with him that night. I will also always remember the speech he made when he opened the impeachment trial. I have a copy of it somewhere. I am saddened by this news.
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:05:51 AM PST
by
WVNan
To: JohnLongIsland
Henry was a class act, during impeachment hearings, while under withering attack from the MSM, he was steady and stuck to the process. I remember when he finished the House articles and knew they would be spiked by the Senate, he made an elegant appeal to the nation to stop with the dark cynicism and strive for a great nation. He was channeling Reagan, it was poignant and philosophical.
I can’t seem to find that speech anywhere online. Freepers? You are the best researchers on the planet (witness last night).
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:11:25 AM PST
by
moodyskeptic
(the counterculture votes R)
To: moodyskeptic
Condolences to the Hyde family. My opinion of Rep. Hyde declined considerably during the impeachment proceedings when he used the term "youthful indiscretion" to describe an extra-marital affair
in his 40s, but he was definitely a good guy in government.
I'll never forget his answer to a reporter's question after the Senate refused to acquit Clinton (I paraphrase) . . .
"Well, the people chose Barabbas, too -- didn't they?"
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:16:03 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
To: JohnLongIsland
Sorry for the dupe...
Can we reasonably expect a State Funeral without it turning into a circus??
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:22:30 AM PST
by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts...)
To: JohnLongIsland
He was a hero of mine for his work on reforming civil asset forfeiture. While the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act was a considerable compromise on what he, myself, and a lot of other people interested in individual property rights wanted, it was still an important step.
It's not an issue a lot of people pay attention to, but it's something I'll always remember him for.
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:28:55 AM PST
by
The Pack Knight
(Duty, Honor, Country.... Valor.)
To: JohnLongIsland
Wasn't this the guy who called an affair he had, as a married man of 41 years of age, a "youthful indiscretion"? Why yes, it was.
He may have been a good conservative, and a good Congressman, but he was no better a man than Bill Clinton. We have to be consistent; that's what separates us from the unprincipled lefties. Clinton was a cheating snake and so was Hyde.
-ccm
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:55:08 AM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: Alberta's Child
"Well, the people chose Barabbas, too -- didn't they?" Allow me to embellish the story with an excerpt from The Greatest Story Ever Told.
By the time Annas reached home, a crowd had gathered before his front door. Rough-looking men stood idly talking together, like laborers waiting for a foreman to come and give orders. Which, Annas reflected with satisfaction, was exactly what they were - laborers, hired mobmen, shouters, screamers, fist-shakers, noisy professional pickets who would rail against any person or any cause - for pay. Tonight Caiphas would be their foreman. Caiphas had worked swiftly. Not only had he assembled these hirelings to give tongue at the proper time, and sound as if they were the voice of all Judea, howling for blood, he had also assembled a troop of Temple guards, sentinels without weapons. These were men of the priestly classes, very important, too, and they let you know it by the way they swung their shoulders as they walked and the scornful way in which they looked past people in trouble. Their duties were to guard the Temple and maintain order; they had already been greatly reproached for not having prevented the disastrous scene in the Temple, when Jesus overturned the tables and whipped the money-changers.
... Presently they would be joined by Roman soldiers with armor and swords, who would give empire authority to the arrest.
Coral Ridge Ministries, proclaiming truths that transform the world.
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posted on
11/29/2007 9:57:21 AM PST
by
Milhous
(Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies)
To: JohnLongIsland
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posted on
11/29/2007 10:16:27 AM PST
by
moodyskeptic
(the counterculture votes R)
To: JohnLongIsland
God Bless him. One of the great ones.
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posted on
11/29/2007 10:36:37 AM PST
by
ex-snook
("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
To: JohnLongIsland
May he rest in peace. He was a good Christian gentleman and a great American.
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posted on
11/29/2007 10:38:38 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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