Battle Lines Drawn

Well as I expected, the Jefferson affair has sided the CBC versus the activists. The Hill has the CBC's side right here. Steve Gilliard answers for the activists here. I happen to lean towards the activist's side in this disagreement. I think the least Jefferson could do is resign his committee position, and as far as the CBC goes, the likely recipient of that seat would be CBC member Arthur Davis.

As noted in the above referenced Hill article, Davis did not attend the meeting of the CBC where they expressed their displeasure with Nancy Pelosi, but the Hill Article contains this:

“Congressman Jefferson is a friend. [Davis] admires his work during his time in Washington and doesn’t feel it is appropriate to comment now,” the [Davis'] spokesman said.

Granted, this comes from his spokesman as Davis refused to comment, but this sounds exactly like the kind of thing you say right before you knife your "friend" in the back.