"You are either with us or against us" Artur Davis

Attention Cats and Critters at Left in Alabama and Over the Mountain Dems! Our ex Congress Critter Artur Davis (DINO) say's he should have supported the Voter ID law. Yep. You read it right (pun intended). Do you think maybe this is his application for a party switch? If so he will fit right (another pun) in with the other republican Flip Flopper's. Artur Davis in his own words;

I think Alabama did the right thing in passing one -- and I wish I had gotten it right when I was in political office.

When I was a congressman, I took the path of least resistance on this subject for an African American politician. Without any evidence to back it up, I lapsed into the rhetoric of various partisans and activists who contend that requiring photo identification to vote is a suppression tactic aimed at thwarting black voter participation.

Yep without that there black voter participation he might have been the democratic nominee for Governor since the majority of blacks voted for Ron Sparks instead of him. You see Artur and Company thought black folks were going to believe he was the second coming of Barack Obama and vote for him out of racial pride at seeing one of their own running for office. The fact he voted against the Affordable Health Care Act with the republicans and against the Hate Crimes Bill with the republicans didn't have anything to do with it. Nope. This is the truth according to Artur.

The truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black Belt.

Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights -- that's suppression by any light. If you doubt it exists, I don't; I've heard the peddlers of these ballots brag about it, I've been asked to provide the funds for it, and I am confident it has changed at least a few close local election results.

Psst Artur! How many cases of voting in the names of the dead and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function have been proven in a court a law? I'll tell you, less than 2%. The real case of voter fraud is the absentee ballots and you you know who votes absentee ballots don't you? White, affluent republicans who have homes in several states and countries.

According to Artur It's all that stupid Sen. Hank Sanders fault!

The fact that a law that is unlikely to impede a single good faith voter -- and that only gives voting the same elements of security as writing a check at the store, or obtaining a library card -- is controversial does say much about the raw feelings in our current politics. The ugliest, hardest forms of disfranchisement were practiced in our lifetimes, and its still conventional rhetoric in black political circles to say those times are on the way back. Witness a last-minute automated call to black voters in the 2010 general election by state Sen. Hank Sanders, an ingenious lawyer and a skillful legislator who knew better, but who also knew the attack would resonate.

When/what/how the heck did Hank Sanders attack Artur? Are you sure you aren't still mad at him for not endorsing you over Ron Sparks? I mean, really?

According to Artur, Bill Clinton is skeering folks too!

I was disappointed to see Bill Clinton, a very good president and an even greater ex-president, compare voter ID to Jim Crow, and it is chilling to see the intimidation tactics brought to bear on African American, Democratic legislators in Rhode Island who had the nerve to support a voter ID law in that very liberal state.

What these folks say all the damn way!

yet, ANOTHER reason why he's FORMER Congressman. good riddance.

This looks like the essay portion of Davis' application to the Republican Party.

up, sure is.

and he will not get any further with the Thugs than his buddy Harold Ford did.

If he thinks the ReThug party is the way back into DC, I got beachfront property in Arizona I'd like to sell him.

What RedEye says; Artur Davis is putting a black face on racist racism.

The truth is that racism is typically most effective when you put a black face on it, and Herman Cain (Artur Davis) has volunteered to become the cute little political puppet which allows white America to say the things that they are afraid to say out loud.

Artur Davis is gone and we HOPE he's never coming back.