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" 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." In the July 14, 2008 Congressional Record: 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’’. 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." In 1995, Helms told the New York Times that the government should spend less on trying to combat AIDS because those suffering from the disease got sick as a result of "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct...We've got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural acts." At the time AIDS was, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the leading cause of death for men and women from ages 24 to 44. Helms also championed legislation that still exists to bar almost every foreign person with HIV from entering the United States for any reason. Helms later became a supporter of efforts to combat AIDS worldwide going beyond lunches with Bono to support major funding efforts. But he made sure to point out that his epiphany did not apply to the U.S. because of homosexuality. "I don't have any idea on changing my views on that kind of activity," he said, which is the primary cause of the doubling and redoubling of AIDS cases in the United States." Sen. Dole's press secretary did not return repeated calls for comment."

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

Nice Liddy, real nice.....

(I know its from a blog, but I don't see a real story on it just yet)

7/16/2008 6:23:02 PM

why the hell would we name a bill to assist the AIDS epidemic after a bigot senator who declared that AIDS was merely a fag disease to begin with.

BTW i hate Libby Dole; she is like the Hillary of the GOP. She may have been born in Salisbury; but she has not lived here in 40 years. I believe in no way shape or form she acts on the best interests of the state of NC. She merely used her high profile name, association with Reagan, and her mom's current mailing address in order to rally a GOP friendly NC into electing her into office. As much as i hate Nancy Pelosi if she were an actual citizen of NC not CA i would vote for her over Libby Dole.

If she wants to be a senator than perhaps she should run for one of Kansas's seats where her and Bob have been hanging out over the past 40 years.

as a side note anyone that has gotten an underage drinking ticket or irritated at having to wait for the age of 21 to drink can thank our senator libby. As a member of the Reagan admin it was one of her landmark initiatives that tied federal highway grant money to rather or not a state set its drinking age to 21; thus creating a de facto national drinking age of 21. Thanks Libby!

[Edited on July 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM. Reason : ;]

[Edited on July 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM. Reason : l]

7/16/2008 8:54:46 PM

Relating to this.....
(i just found it interesting, not trying to bring up anything)

"Finally we have a high-level admission that there is no threat of a global Aids pandemic among heterosexuals. After 25 years of official scaremongering about western societies being ravaged by the disease – with salacious, tombstone-illustrated government propaganda warning people to wear a condom or 'die of ignorance' – the head of the World Health Organisation's HIV/Aids department says there is no need for heterosexuals to fret."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/12/aids.health

7/17/2008 3:33:36 AM

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"tied federal highway grant money "

i hate this shit so much.

I also don't know why they feel the need to weasel their way around the 10th Amendment like that instead of just flat out ignoring the Constitution the way they do with other things.

7/17/2008 3:44:56 AM

Wait, you mean Dole is actually doing something in Congress? I was thinking she was just sitting there trying to look pretty this entire time.

7/17/2008 7:08:19 AM

I would vote Mao Zedong as my senator before Elizabeth Dole

7/17/2008 3:04:40 PM

Not Dole's best move here, to be sure.

7/17/2008 3:11:48 PM

Why is the government spending money on an AIDS cure, anyway? I might as well just take out a percentage of my paycheck and light it on fire.

7/17/2008 3:17:39 PM

When we finally codify our stance against torture, let's call it the Gonzalez-Rumsfeld Bill.

7/17/2008 3:21:14 PM

^ It's Gonzales, dumbass.

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"You know, some of you should probably run a reality check on yourselves before telling us all how smart you are. "

hooksaw

http://thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=528301&page=5

7/17/2008 3:25:13 PM

My bad, jibe turkey.

7/17/2008 3:26:49 PM

Maybe Obama can sponsor the "Bill Ayres Anti-Terrorism Act."

7/17/2008 10:26:52 PM

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"Helms later became a supporter of efforts to combat AIDS worldwide"

please finish reading

(still odd as hell though)

[Edited on July 18, 2008 at 12:10 PM. Reason : s]

7/18/2008 12:09:39 PM

Liddy Dole is a homophobic piece of shit. This only serves to reinforce that.

7/18/2008 12:29:51 PM

If she wants to be a senator than she can go the fuck back to kansas

7/18/2008 12:41:58 PM