I STILL HATE MY SENATOR.

As much as I think Elizabeth Dole is a bubble-headed, do-nothing, empty suit completely and totally out of her depth pretending to be a senator, I have clung to the small comfort that she is, at least, a mighty improvement over the recently deceased asshole that preceded her.

But she's trying hard to convince me otherwise.

This is unbelievable. Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) wants to rename the the current AIDS relief bill after Jesse Helms.

Jesse Helms, the man who in 1987 described AIDS prevention literature as "so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up."

Jesse Helms, the man who in 1988 vigorously opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS research bill, saying, "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."

Jesse Helms, the man who in 1995 said (in opposition to refunding the Ryan White Act) that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct."

Jesse Helms, the man who in 2002 announced that he'd changed his mind about AIDS funding for Africa, but not for American gays, because homosexuality "is the primary cause of the doubling and redoubling of AIDS cases in the United States."

Many people hold Ronald Reagan responsible for adding to the early AIDS death toll by his inaction on the pandemic, but it was Helms' actions in thwarting early research that inarguably hastened the demise of many thousands of Americans. How many of my friends, of your friends, would be alive today if the life-saving medications had arrived just one fucking year earlier?

Maybe next we can rename the Civil Rights Museum for Strom Thurmond and the Chicago Children's Museum for John Wayne Gacy. God, please, my fellow North Carolinians, elect Kay Hagan this November. I'm so fucking sick of being represented by moral retards.

(thanks for the tip, Joseph)