Following the news that Democrats may enter the New Year with 60 Senators, I found this article. Tom Davis, Republican Congressman from Virginia, is not running for reelection. Here he explains why.
No more. The revolution is over, the thrill is gone and the Republican brand under President Bush has, in Davis’s view, been so tarnished that, as he likes to say, “if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf.” These will be Davis’s last few weeks in Congress. He decided against re-election, disaffected by the partisanship, by a process he calls broken, by a party he considers hijacked by social conservatives. “We’re just not getting much done,” he said.
Another aide sat down and told him there would be three more votes. “They’re all yes votes,” the aide said.
Davis laughed. “Let me make up my own mind!” he said in mock protest. Gesturing to me, he said, “I’ve just been telling this guy I’m an independent agent!”
