Good Riddance Jesse Helms

One of the last and worst of the Dixie Senators from the last century has finally done us a favor by dying off. We couldn’t seem to vote the scum bag bigot out of office, so death was our only hope. As vicious as the stinking bastard was, my one regret is that we couldn’t douse him with gasoline and burn him alive as the soldiers of the Augusto Pinochet, government of Chile did to two student protesters during his 26 years. A proper funeral for him would be to burn his body and hang it upside down from a quick trip parking lot so the rest of us could spit on him for a weak. To review his career:
The Wichita Eagle June 5:
"Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
By WHITNEY WOODWARD
Associated Press Writers

RALEIGH, N.C. - Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
An iconic figure of the South, remembered by many for his opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Helms had faded from public view as his health declined. He died of natural causes early Friday morning at the Raleigh convalescent home where he had lived for the past several years. "He was very comfortable," said former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton.
Helms was a polarizing figure, both at home and in Washington. He delighted in forcing roll-call votes that required Democrats to take politically difficult votes on federal funding for art he deemed pornographic, school busing, flag-burning and other cultural issues. Among his first forays into politics was working in 1950 to elect segregationist candidate Willis Smith to the Senate, and he later fought against much of the civil rights movement.
In 1993, when then-President Clinton sought confirmation for an openly homosexual assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Helms registered his disgust. "I'm not going to put a lesbian in a position like that," he said in a newspaper interview at the time. "If you want to call me a bigot, fine."
He took a dim view of many arms control treaties, and supported the contras in Nicaragua as well as the right-wing government of El Salvador. He opposed the Panama Canal treaties that then-President Carter pushed through a reluctant Senate in 1977."

He openly supported death squad leaders in El Salvador during the 1980s and despite all the bigotry, which included blacks and gays, the creep was treated with great respect by the rest of the Senate, with some of his colleges calling him a “great judge of moral issues.” I guess burning and killing those we disagree with is a positive moral aspect of the United States.
Jesse, I toast your passing and your riddance with great joy. You will not be missed by me.