I Wish that I had Jesse's Gall

Elizabeth Dole's gall actually but that is not a catchy mid-80's pop song which the readers can tap their foot along to. Bring out the timelines!

1988: On the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill: "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."

1994: Exclaims from the Senate floor that homosexuality is "degenerate" and homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches."

1995: "The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian."

1999: Introducing anti-gay bill: "This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

2008: Elizabeth Dole introduces amendment that will rename the international AIDS bill the "Tom Lantos and Jesse Helms United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008."

2008: Helms still in Hell.