[JohnLongIsland]

RIP

[sauropod]

Rest in peace Henry! Thanks for serving the country during the impeachment debacle. Pity the Senators didn’t do their jobs.

[ElkGroveDan]

God Bless his soul. May the Lord welcome him with open arms.

[Tennessean4Bush]

RIP

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

[Dahoser]

RIP, Henry. You did us proud.

[Nowhere Man]

RIP Henry, I loved your speech on the Rule of Law, it really hit home with me.

[rottndog]

RIP Henry Hyde!

A good soul who will be missed.

[moodyskeptic]

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).

[Bean Counter]

Sorry for the dupe...

Can we reasonably expect a State Funeral without it turning into a circus??

[The Pack Knight]

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.

[ccmay]

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

[moodyskeptic]

I just found this, it’s not the speech I remember, but it’s an elegant reminder of Hyde’s sober assessment of his duty and a plea to the Senate to take Clinton’s perjuries seriously. Henry, RIP.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/16/transcripts/hyde.html

[ex-snook]

God Bless him. One of the great ones.

[Cicero]

May he rest in peace. He was a good Christian gentleman and a great American.

[Dajjal]

A great statesman for the pro-life cause.

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.

Anima eius, et animæ omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen.

[EDINVA]

Rep. Hyde performed fine and noble service for this nation and for his constituents. May his family be comforted and the Lord welcoming him with open arms. RIP.

[yield 2 the right]

RIP....

[scrabblehack]

My Encyclopedia Yearbook has him elected to the U.S. House as a Democrat in 1974, but as a Republican in 1976. Could the Times have gotten it wrong?

[Zack Nguyen]

Henry Hyde helped pass the single most important pro-life legislation in history. It is named after him, and was passed in the 1970’s. It stops government from funding any elective abortions in the United States.

It is politically much more difficult to repeal something than it is to pass it, so we can safely say that the Hyde Amendment is probably the only reason why your tax money is not going to abort babies.

God bless Henry Hyde.

[tioga]

RIP