"This hypocrite broke up my family" (Henry Hyde)

[donsu]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_07_18_americablog_archive.html#109034727448794100

Who? None other than Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), the guy Gary Bauer and the Family Values crowd want to represent them at the Republican convention.

Apparently when the Republicans were off trying to amend the Constitution they also amended the Ten Commandments to strike that inconvenient little line about adultery. Though, in Hyde's defense, I hear the woman he was boinking on the side wasn't actually his "neighbor."

God bless Salon.com, circa 1998:
"Fred Snodgrass, a 76-year-old Florida retiree, says he gets so upset when he watches Rep. Henry Hyde on TV that 'I nearly jump out of my chair.' Hyde, the Illinois Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee, is on television often these days. Hyde's committee will decide whether the adulterous affair President Clinton carried on with a White House intern, and his efforts to keep it hidden, should be referred to the House of Representatives for impeachment proceedings. 'I watched on TV the other night,' said Snodgrass. 'These politicians were going on about how he should have been on the Supreme Court, what a great man he is, how we're lucky to have him in Congress in charge of the impeachment case. And all I can think of is here is this man, this hypocrite who broke up my family.'

"Snodgrass says Hyde carried on a five-year sexual relationship with his then-wife, Cherie, that shattered his family. Hyde admitted to Salon Wednesday that he had been involved with Cherie Snodgrass..." ---------------------------------------

there is even a picture of Cherie on Hyde's lap

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. I remember the criticism that Salon received for that article.

They were accused of trash journalism for bringing up private information on Hyde. I knew that criticism was bogus back then. I say, the more the secrets come out, the less chance these public officials have to use their positions as soapboxes for moral values they don't have.

[Arianrhod]

2. Turn on the lights

and let the cockroaches scatter.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. I remember when the story about Hyde's "youthful indiscretion"

as he called it broke in 1998. I said then and I still say it now, "Mr. Hyde you are a class A hypocrite." I even sent him a letter about it.

Thank God that asswipe Hyde doesn't represent my Congressional District in Illinois. I just wish to God the Dems could come up with someone who had a chance of beating him.

I wonder if Mr. Snodgrass is still alive?