Keep this up Mr Davis, and I may dismiss my skepticism at yourconversion. ~ The Liberal Coup - By Artur Davis http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304385/liberal-coup-artur-davis
 Whether Chief Justice John Roberts changed his mind or is the latest Republican to “evolve” on the bench, he has done the improbable: Liberals are praising a Supreme Court that they had trashed as a player in a right-wing conspiracy. Old sins such asCitizens United are washed away, as are President Obama’s spring musings about the dangers of an unelected court unaccountable to public opinion. The about-face is jarring, even in a political atmosphere in which the right result typically makes right. I’ll offer some quick cautionary notes, though, on the politics, and on the arguably more significant trend signified by the outcome. First, a rebuttal to Democratic wishfulness that health care is now a political winner for Barack Obama: The better evidence is that it will be a media-inflated victory that is worth no votes. Just as Democrats miscalculated in 2010 by assuming that the passage of the health-care law would prove that they could get things done, they are probably drawing the wrong lesson today if they assume the Court’s rescue of a deeply unpopular law somehow validates the Obama term.Former Democrat Rep. Artur Davis, Alabama, Switches to GOPMAY 31 2012 BY DAVID LEEPER | VIEW OTHER POSTS BY DAVID LEEPER  In what could become a growing trend, former Democrat Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama has left the Democrat party for the GOP where he may again run for office from Virginia.Davis was a one-time rising star in the Democrat party and was active in the Obama campaign. But he grew increasingly critical of the party after losing a gubernatorial primary in 2010. And he was the only African American member of the House to vote aganst Obamacare. His full personal statement contains many of the phrases I have been hoping we would hear from thoughtful, high-profile Democrats. I was sure they were out |
