Libby Dole Has Lost Her Mind

This is too bizarre for words. Pam Spaulding informs us that Elizabeth Dole is sponsoring an amendment to name an AIDS bill after Jesse Helms. I will give you a moment to absorb that last sentence.

SA 5074. Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2731, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: On page 1, line 5, strike ''and Henry J. Hyde'' and insert '', Henry J. Hyde, and Jesse Helms''.

For the sake of journalistic fairness, Helms did have a change of heart about using federal funding to combat AIDS.

"I'm so ashamed that I've done so little," Helms said.

Helms did so little because he used his position on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to block AIDS funding and bash the LGBT community.

"There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy, Helms said. Arthur Ashe contracting AIDS from blood transfusions is proof of Helm's willful ignorance. Even if Helm's was corrert, his Christian ideology excluded compassion. Helm's believed if you were gay you deserved to die from AIDS. End of story.

I doubt Senate Democrats will let the Helms amendment pass.