RIP, Henry Hyde
Former Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde Died today. May he rest in peace.
For those of you who do not know, there are about 1,000,000 Americans alive today thanks to Rep. Hyde:
He will be most remembered for the Hyde Amendment. First passed in 1976, when Hyde was new to Washington, it bans the public funding of abortions though Medicaid. The year before it passed, the federal government had financed 300,000 abortions for low-income women. Afterward, this number dropped essentially to zero — the women either found another way to pay for their abortions or chose life for their unborn children. The National Right to Life Committee has estimated, conservatively, that the Hyde Amendment has prevented at least one million abortions. That’s one million Americans who are alive today because of Henry Hyde.
Please read that paragraph again, because I think it is difficult to visualize just how incredible of an achievement that truly is.
This is a perfect example of how Fiscal Conservatism can have a MAJOR impact on social issues. My dear friends who are Social Conservatives, look at what fiscal restraint in principled hands can accomplish! Beware of those who use socially conservative rhetoric to gain your trust and your vote. They are often long on talk and short on results. May God rest the soul of Henry Hyde, a Congressman & Patriot, a Conservative of action and not just words.
S&L Crook, In 1981, after leaving the House Banking Committee, Hyde went on the board of directors of Clyde Federal Savings and Loan, whose President was one of many of Hyde’s banker contributors. The Congress deregulated S&L industry in 1982, and Clyde began taking part in loans for luxury residences in Texas and bought a bank in the Cayman Islands, a notorious financial exchange for laundering money. Since 1984, when Hyde left the board, it was clear to the directors from the reports that the establishment had failed, but Hyde and others on the board continued to give inappropriate financial loans to cronies and insiders and make it possible for the establishment to overcharge the government on student loans. In 1990, the federal government put Clyde in receivership, and finally paid $67 million to cover deposits. In 1993, the Resolution Trust Corporation sued Hyde and other directors for $17.2 million.
Hyde had an extramarital affair in the late 1960 and destroyed a family.
Hyde was 41, a state legislator, and the father of four sons when the affair began in 1965 with a
29-year-old Cherie Snodgrass, who had a son and two daughters between the ages of 7 and 9 at the time. The relationship lasted until at least 1969.
The Snodgrasses divorced because of the affair.
Shalom,
—Leland Milton Goldblatt, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Lelan Milton Goldblatt, PiledHigh&Deep,
Thank you for pointing out Henry Hyde was a human being and not Christ. Politicians are not Messiahs or God, in fact a politician (Pontious Pilate) killed the only person that actually didn’t sin.
DISTINGUISHED professor? Not with a dirty blogospot blog full dirty pictures. I took his link out as I am not linking to this moron with a PhD.
Hyde saved 1,000,000 lives from the abortion holocaust.