According to certain self-proclaimed leaders in the House of Representatives, if you are black, hold a political office, and have a healthy respect for carrying out your constitutional duties in spite of what that might mean for the electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party, you are a traitor to your race and shame should be heaped upon you until your dying day. This is the message that was sent yet again to one black man in particular last Thursday from the Democratic side of the floor of the House of Representatives. That man is Kenneth Blackwell, the secretary of state...