Henry Hyde, congressmen from Illinois dead at 83. Henry Hyde is most remembered as the loudest voice in congress denying women their right to choose an abortion and as the leading House Manager in 1998 to impeach President Bill Clinton. Though it was Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay who decided to have an impeachment, it was the once respected Henry Hyde who gave it the gravitas needed for it to proceed.
While Hyde and the rest of the other reactionary Republican House Managers fell over themselves talking the high moral ground over sexual matters, what went around finally came around to bite him on the ass, latch on, and follow him to the grave. His past long term adultery, unlike Bill Clinton’s, ruined a marriage. As was the case with Impeachment House Manager Bob Barr who was photographed licking whipped cream off of women’s breasts and paid for an abortion, as was the case with House Manager Bob Livingston who was found to frequent prostitutes, Henry Hyde also never recovered from the hypocrisy and the shame.