As we all know, Representative Henry Hyde has passed on. Now that he has gone straight to heaven, let's look back on his rich and storied career as a leader of the right-wing hypocricy brigade...err....The Republican Party..
Let's start with his extramarital affair that continued for five years when he was a youthful, impulsive and reckless coming-of-age up-start..........at 41 YEARS OF AGE. Fred Snodgrass, the man he made cuckold and the three children of that family he took part in destroying, must have felt relief and ultimate forgiveness when Dr. Jeckyll...I mean..Mr. Hyde was confronted with this fact as he lead the moral brigage to IMPEACH A SITTING PRESIDENT.dismissed this as a
"youthful indiscretion"
Wash, scrub, rinse, repeat.
Now let's move to the Iran/Contra affair where when it became eminiently clear that there was some incredible lying taking place in the White House, he so astutely and patriotically declared that we need to
"broaden the definition of lying".
Unfortunately, his efforts failed. And when he led the drive to IMPEACH A SITTING PRESIDENT for lying about an extramarital affair, apparently Dr. Jeckyll....damn it....Mr. Hyde's efforts to broaden that definition (lying) were put aside and he saw fit to pursue the IMPEACHMENT OF A SITTING PRESIDENT for.......wait for it....LYING.
Wash, scrub, rinse, repeat.
Now let's speak to his incredibly vociferous drive to end abortion! Because protecting the family is the most important driving factor in any Republican congressman's white-robed, haloed existence. I weep a little every time I think about this this. I picture him on the battlefield in his torn bustle, one breast exposed, holding the American flag up facing the enemy. I find it so easy to forget Mr. Snodgrass and his three children whose family was destroyed when Dr. Jeckyll....MR. HYDE voted:
YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions.
YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.
YES on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info.
YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad.
YES on banning partial-birth abortions.
YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage.
YES on banning gay adoptions in DC.
YES on replacing illegal export tax breaks with $140B in new breaks.
YES on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime.
NO on maintaining right of habeus corpus in Death Penalty Appeals.
YES on making federal death penalty appeals harder.
NO on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges.
YES on allowing school prayer during the War on Terror.
YES on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer.
NO on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore.
NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels.
Rest in peace, Representative Hyde. Your ilk would be greatly missed if hypocrites like yourself were not still carrying on.
So in essense nothing has changed with your party. Though you have passed on, we need to broaden the definition of dying as well..
And one more vote...
NO,my beloved Kos readers....I will not delete this post.