Elizabeth Dole Tries to Rename the AIDS Bill After Jesse Helms

[JerseygirlCT]

Oh my. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-NC, has officially requested that the ”Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008" be also named after the late Sen. Jesse Helms, R-NC.

"That is bizarre," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told me this afternoon when I told him this news. "That is absolutely bizarre. The Lantos-Hyde-Helms… the idea that anyone would want to do that is ludicrous...I would try to think of something that would be less appropriate, but even with my disregard for convention it would be hard to do that."

...
Helms, you may recall, opposed funding for AIDS research -- even the Ryan White AIDS Act.

He was not a big fan of the gays, Mr. Helms. Gays were "weak, morally sick wretches," he said, and in 1988, opposing an AIDS research bill championed by, among others, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Helms said, "there is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."

-Jake Tapper

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/elizabeth-dole.html


Hard to believe, isn't it?

[chelsea0011]

1. I thought this would be a link to "The Onion".

Dole is psycho.

[JerseygirlCT]

2. Right?

Can she be that stupid?

[ColbertWatcher]

40. Regardless, you can add your own...

...at this link.

I started it, but left spaces for everyone to add their own.

You can just click the "edit" at the far right (blech) of the section you wish to add your joke to and type away!

If you have any questions, just ask.

[zbdent]

3. Like the "Clear Skies Initiative" - meaning relieving the industries from

pollution standards ...

[JerseygirlCT]

4. Someday all of these will be immortalized

somehow, I think.

There is probably a very, very long list from this administration and their cohorts.

[zbdent]

13. Now there's a full-time job ... polishing those turds ...

[JerseygirlCT]

17. That ought to be Rove's sentence

100 years of turd polishing. He's such an expert already.

[paparush]

5. Gods.. I can't stand that woman, my senator, Liddy Dole. Worthless, utterly worthless.

Pair her with our other Repug Senator, Burr, and you've got quite a hand.

[Ian David]

6. I say we call their bluff.

Introduce a bill declaring "The Jesse Helms National Day of Gay Pride."

[Vickers]

21. Ding! Ding!

:thumbsup:

[Olney Blue]

23. Or introduce the "Jesse Helms Defense of Gay Marriage Act"

[JerseygirlCT]

26. Oh now, that's a beauty! nt

[Ian David]

7. Maybe Elizabeth Dole knows something about Jesse Helms that we don't???? n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

9. LOL!

Wouldn't that be something?

[DFW]

8. What's next, the Stevie Wonder Institute for Optical Research?

[JerseygirlCT]

11. Nah, he's not nearly conservative enough to warrant that

sort of memorial!

[DFW]

20. Yeah, you're right. OK, then..........

The Strom Thurmond Center for Classical and ancient Mesopotamian studies?

Or the Joseph McCarthy Institute of Applied Political Science?

[JerseygirlCT]

22. LOL

You know, my husband and I were joking about Strom Thurmond like that, too - a new civil rights bill, perhaps.

He did point out that a few of his children prove that he liked at least *some* African Americans!

[vixengrl]

10. This is one of those "Conservatives are irony-impaired" deals,

YKWIM?

[JerseygirlCT]

12. Yup. Either she's that dense, or she thinks we are. nt

[muntrv]

14. She also wants to appoint Cheech & Chong as DEA head.

[Gato Moteado]

16. now THAT would be cool

nt

[JerseygirlCT]

18. LOL. Ok, now THAT would be something to see!

At least they'd be entertaining.

[regnaD kciN]

15. I'm just waiting for the "Adolf Hitler Anti-Genocide Act"...

:eyes:

[MichiganVote]

19. Dole and her ilk are exactly the rotten wood in Washington that stinks all the way to Canada

[ColbertWatcher]

24. This is exactly what the GOP did with Reagan...

...by "rewarding" him with National Airport after the shit he pulled with the air traffic controllers' union.

Don't forget they're still trying to put his face on the FDR dime. Last I heard they're waiting for Nancy Reagan to die, since she's against it.

[JerseygirlCT]

27. I refuse to call it anything but National, myself.

That really disgusted me!

[ColbertWatcher]

29. Me too.

I hate using that bastard's name in anything.

[ccharles000]

25. God I hate her.

I will be happy to vote against her here in NC.

[Sewsojm]

32. Me Too,

She's a Fucking Worthless Bitch!!

[Catherine Vincent]

38. Not necessary. nt

[fishwax]

28. revolting n/t

[RNdaSilva]

30. Ludicrous...

[Rex]

31. So is she a clueless Repuke like her brethern?

Wow, what an idiot.

[ccharles000]

33. Amen

[DarthDem]

36. OH YES SHE IS

Elizabeth Dole is one of the stupidest people in modern American politics. About as intelligent as Condi Rice, if that gives you a good picture.

[SunDrop23]

34. That crazy ass has been sniffing glue for years, what an embarrassment to my state...sorry y'all.

Crazy ass.

[Riddler]

35. This dried up worthless prune knows she's in a tough fight and is just trying

to appeal to the knuckle dragging rednecks with tobacco spittle stains on their chins the made Jesse their hero.

[ColbertWatcher]

39. Sadly, it might pass...

...only because of the way the Senate loves to name things after each other.

[galledgoblin]

37. haha, in a "make him spin in his grave" sense

I really like this idea! :evilgrin: