The most entertainment of hearings is how the lordly Senators mock the buffoon Representatives

[UTUSN]

Senators get a thrill out of holding hearings to contrast their supposed superiority with the House members’ buffoonery. Yaas, the House of Representatives, vaunted as being SO CLOSE to the PEOPLE – those people in the sports stadium cesspools.

I distinctly remember this fellow, Representative Henry HYDE, when the House part of the CLINTON impeachment was over, and the lordly Senators (NOT the Senate VOTING part) threw shade at the House buffoons for how they had conducted themselves, HYDE rushed down the Capitol steps in shirt sleeves, all disheveled, and whining about how he and the other House buffoons had been disrespected by the Senators, how chip-on-the-shoulder he felt. Ha-HAH!1

He's also the namesake of the "HYDE Amendment" restricting federal funds on abortion.

[Gabi Hayes]

1. Hyde the salami? in his mistress? that Henry?

http://www.salon.com/1998/09/17/cov_16newsb/

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 [Hyde] 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, and that the relationship ended after Hyde’s wife found out about it. At the time of the affair,
which lasted from 1965 to 1969, Fred Snodgrass was a furniture salesman
in Chicago, and his wife was a beauty stylist. They had three small
children, two girls and a boy. Hyde, then 41 years old, was a lawyer and rising star in Republican state politics. In 1966, he was elected for the first time to
the Illinois House. Hyde was married and the father of four sons. (His wife, Jeanne Hyde, died of breast cancer in 1992, after a 45-year marriage.)

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2. I'd forgotten that, how he fit right in with GINGRICH and LIVINGSTON!1

[underpants]

3. He called it "youthful indiscretions"....at the age of 41

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/hyde091798.htm

[Gabi Hayes]

6. hahahaha......harry shearer writes about David Schippers, perhaps the stupidest, most

incompetent lawyer I've ever seen

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/feb/14/opinion/op-7988

I link this because I had the good fortune to videotape the radio show that Bruce Dumont airs to this day. I got so PO'd at the chief counsel to the judiciary committtee ravings that I called in.

after saying something about how embarrassed his KGOP cohorts would be when cross examination started, he hemmed and hawed, leading me to ask which one in the audience was his wife and which one was his girlfriend!

it was documented that he actually did this, and the link above has Harry Shearer joking about how both of them will be at his retirement dinner.

anyway, when I said that, he responded, "You go to HELL, sir!"

he really said that! unfortunately, they hung up on me while I was laughing as hard as I ever had, so that part didn't get on the tape

the good old days.............

PS .........I also got to call and record Susan Schmidt on her shoddy reporting, catching her in a big lie. briefly corresponded with Joe Conason about sending him the tape until he found an immediate copy.

[WoonTars]

4. He was a vile POS

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[lunatica]

5. Hyde was definitely a pearl clutcher!

He waxed almost poetic in the language he used about how could he ever explain to his children or grandchildren what Clinton had done. He was a closet wordsmith of the poetic and florid literary type.

My belief is he protested too much.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. he was a philanderer and a THIEF!

The attorney for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) hired a private investigator in 1995 to probe the background of one of the congressman's critics in order to determine how to respond to him, according to Hyde spokesman Sam Stratman.

Stratman, who first made the remarks to the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, clarified an Oct. 15 statement of Hyde's in which the veteran Republican indicated "a mutual friend" had hired Chicago detective Ernie Rizzo on his behalf without his knowledge. Hyde initially said he did not pay for the job.

Posing as a television journalist interested in producing a piece on the subject, Rizzo obtained information in 1995 from Illinois bank consultant Tim Anderson, who questioned Hyde's role in the $67 million federal bailout of Clyde Federal Savings & Loan Association. Anderson, who began focusing on S&L failures when his own hometown institution was collapsing, provided Rizzo and several reporters documents showing that Hyde approved two board decisions which ultimately produced nearly $14 million in losses for Clyde.

of course, the crook skated, but was CLEARLY in the know as to the shaky ground of this little shitbox of an SandL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/hyde103198.htm

[lunatica]

8. He got away with everything!

I detested him!

[Gabi Hayes]

9. amazing, isn't it? even his stupid wife stuck with him for almost thirty years

after he disgraced her.

[lunatica]

10. He probably waxed poetic at her

tears and all.