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Bush Chooses Jesse Helms Clone as Domestic Policy Adviser

(Might as well try the back door.)

"Bush has chosen Claude Allen, the Department of Health and Human Services' No. 2 official, to be his domestic policy adviser, responsible for shaping all White House proposals and decisions on domestic issues, press secretary Scott McClellan said Wednesday.

Bush nominated Allen to a federal appeals court, the 4th Circuit based in Richmond, in April 2003 and again a year ago, but Allen never received a vote in the Senate. During his confirmation hearing, Allen was questioned about his use of the word "queer" when he was a press aide to Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., in 1984. Allen said he didn't intend it as a slur against gay people."

Perhaps he merely meant people who were 'singularly strange,' like Jesse, or Bush himself? Jesse at least admitted his gross prejudices.

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