Burbank Democratic Club

Check out this post at FDL if you haven't already, then call Schiff and Boxer and Feinstien and tell them to stop it.

Latina Lista has been doing fantastic work on the story of the truly evil ICE roundup of immigrant children and families, which has in many cases left American citizen children effectively orphaned. Now, we learn of American concentration camps for brown people, holding hundreds of children, just in time for Christmas, here on mainland American soil. As allied forces liberated Europe after defeating Germany, the undesirables of the Nazi regime were set free. Who will liberate these people?

It has to be you.

Thought this might be of interest:

In one month, the California Democratic Party is holding elections for the DSCC (Democratic State Central Committee). There will be 80 separate caucuses, one for each assembly district, on the weekend of January 13-14. The 6 men and 6 women who win these elections will become 1/3 of the delegates to the CDP, and will as part of their duties become delegates to the state convention in April, where they can vote on the party platform, party operation and machinery, and specific candidate endorsements. This is a real opportunity to get progressives and reformers into the state party to attempt to steer it in a direction that is more responsive to the grassroots, more engaged with the electorate, and generally more functional and successful.

District #43 meets and votes at 2:00pm on 1/14/07 at IATSE Local 80, 2520 W. Olive Ave., Burbank. So even if you aren't running, show up, pay $5 and vote for the candidate of your choice. Delgates have to attend the Annual Conventions (one up north, on down here) and get to vote on the Party Platform.

If you support the Progressive Caucus Slate, you will get some extra support.

The Progressive Caucus is doing this in a very open-source manner. They are collecting names from assembly districts all across the country. Once they have them, they will put out an email to connect those progressives together, so they can discuss how to most effectively get out the vote.

I'll vote for ya! Hey, maybe I'll run! But forms are due january 2nd. Here's the FORM.

Ah, it is so pleasant that this man is irrelevant now.

"Tom DeLay, appearing on Hannity and Colmes last night to promote his new on-and-off blog, took square aim at the real culprits for problems in the war in Iraq. "It's the fault of the liberals and the media and the Democrats, that from the very beginning have tried to undermine the will of the American people to fight this," DeLay said. (Lifted from TMPm.)

From USA Today:

In the end, nothing became the 109th Congress so much as its going, which it finally did Saturday on the heels of an ethics report that seemed to symbolize two years of feckless behavior. Even some key Republicans left town lamenting a record of failure.

From The Guardian:

Republicans dumped an unfinished budget on the Democrats about to take power, with the Senate barely meeting a midnight deadline to pass a stopgap spending bill putting the government on autopilot until Feb. 15. Bush quickly signed the bill on Saturday.

From the Morning Sentinel:

This failure to perform the most basic function of a legislature would not be so troubling had this Congress worked hard. But the GOP leadership, which is charged with scheduling the work of the Congress, kept the legislators in session only 103 days this year, seven days fewer than the "Do Nothing" Congress against which President Truman campaigned in 1948, 137 days fewer than a full-time worker logs annually, even if he or she has four weeks of vacation a year.

Just a little google fun to help celebrate the Holidays.