MOVE OVER JERRY, JESSE'S COMING TO JOIN YOU

One of the major reactionaries of my time passed away and CNN let's us know that he didn't even like the Apostles:

Helms was known as "Senator No" for his staunch opposition to an array of liberal causes, including affirmative action, arts funding, gay rights and a federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The destruction of this country can be pinpointed in terms of its beginnings to the time that our political leadership turned to socialism," Helms said in an editorial he wrote at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, according to The Associated Press.

"They didn't call it socialism, of course. It was given deceptive names and adorned with fancy slogans. We heard about New Deals, and Fair Deals and New Frontiers and the Great Society."