DDay is off to Sacramento with signatures under his arm, trying to get the California Democratic Party to call for the impeachment of Torture Judge Jay Bybee who sits on the 9th Circuit Court of appeals. If you haven’t signed it, here it is, and if you’d like to help chip in for his expenses, he’s doing a fundraiser here (I donated — his work trying to get Bybee impeached is a great citizen-led grassroots effort).
The Resolution Committee meets at 3pm today, but it’s probably going to come down to what Bob Mulholland and co-chairs Inola Henry and John Hanna want to do. If the California Democratic Party powers that be don’t want it to come to the floor, it won’t, despite the fact that the Los Angeles CDP passed it unanimously. At least we’ll know who to blame.
Brian Leubitz of Calitics is on the Resolution Committee. You can follow all the action over at Calitics where DDay, Hekebolos (Dante Atkins) and others on the scene in Sacramento will be keeping us posted. I’m told there could be some good chatter about primary challengers coming out of it.
Meanwhile, I guess we’ve graduated from DFHs:
With so many tech moguls putting their hats in California’s political ring, the Web will be a-flutter with Obama-inspired networking initiatives–and the push will set a dizzying new bar for what it means to run a networked campaign.
Republicans will try to curry favor with growing political clearinghouses like TechRepublican and RedCounty blog while Democrats try to leverage their grassroots–50 State Blog Network–and get the attention of the established liberal powerhouses like TPM, HuffPo, and Firedoglake.
I was kind of fond of "foul-mouthed fem bloggers" and "Jane Hamshers of the left" (with a nod to John Cole).



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I loved you most when you were still foul-mouthed. Damn respectability is killing this blog; either than or you scared away all the trolls.
Jane, please don’t go Hollywood on us.
Oh wait …
Fucking right you are!
keep up the stellar work, jane hamsher and all the rabblerousers at firedoglake.
ELPh?
We’re ELPh now?
Thanks for this post, Jane. I can’t get this whole Bybee as a judge thing out of my craw.
For the record, Jane, you will always be a foul-mouthed fem blogger to me.
Awww, Jane, you’ll always be a foul-mouthed fem blogger to me. *g*
Whatever happened to rabid venomous Lambshers of the Left (of which Jane may or may not be one)?
this is gonna take some getting used-to….
OT – Gore on CSPAN1 speaking before the House Energy Subcmte. re American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
FYI, Ben Smith at Politico cited an article in the Las Vegas Review Journal re: Harry Reid defending Bybee.
“Judge Bybee has a good professional reputation in Nevada,” Reid spokesman Jon Summers said in an e-mail. “While the memos that have been released are disturbing to Sen. Reid, at this point in time, he doesn’t think we should be making a rush to judgment.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
Thank you!
I am so gonna have to raise the quality of my comments… *s*
Mormons don’t believe other Mormons can do bad things; co-religionists defend one another in the public sphere.
Fuck that
We’re all buff now?
I like the “organic”. Keep that Organic symbol up.
So Senator Reid is “disturbed” by the Bybee memo. Trying to come up with something intelligent and clever to say about Reid….hmmm, He’s fuckhead.
OT The US has renewed its efforts to deport Mr Debyanyuk (sp) to Israel for war crimes as a prison guard over 60 years ago. How can we, as a country be doing this at the same time that we are saying that we shouldn’t be looking back here?
Scuse the OT have been traveling (in OK now) and this has really been bothering me.
So I take it your’re not a Mormon.
Eighty killed yesterday… Sixty killed today
Is it too far-fetched to wonder if Cheyney’s moles in the CIA are somehow behind these latest atrocities?
While we’re accused of being hypercritical, Harry Reid is doing his best to be hypocritical. If he can look at the situation and not see the problem… he should be gone.
i dunno, i kinda like “established liberal powerhouse”. it’s not only true, it was hard-won and you deserve the credit.
*phew*
harry reid should have been gone a long time ago. at this pioint, i’ll support the gop challenger against reid: better a weak, freshmen minority partyy backbencher than a powerful majority leader who uses his power to aid republicans
About time they woke up and realized bloggers are here to stay. It is so embarrassing that California has acted like Mississippi for so long. My daughter was an intern for Mulholland (in 1999 — dang! 10 years? Time flies!) and he has been this way at least that long. NOT progressive. In fact, like Steny Hoyer, governing like it is 1990.
It is high time for California to LEAD again. It is not nearly enough for them to just be a blue state. They have to ACT progressive.
Hey Jane if come back to read this …
Or DDay, or Bryan L, how did it go? I’m at the convention right now. Are you still here? Send me an email and I’ll give you my phone number
frisian320i at hotmail dot com
Do you need help with something tonight, tomorrow or Sunday AM?