Those of you who recall these resolutions for the Texas Democrats that I talked about, will want to know that I’m at the State Democratic Executive meeting right now and the anti death penalty, gay marriage, and decriminalization of marijuana are failing as resolutions. Most of the anti speeches focused on saddling our candidates with these controversial issues.

Death penalty failed.

Gay marriage, even after powerful speeches including an amazing one by Rick Cofer, failed.

Decriminalization of marijuana failed.

Casino gambling passed.

More when I get home and wipe the little spittle things off the sides of my mouth.

RE-UPDATE:  Guys, I need a little more cooling-off time before I write about this.  I can’t be funny about it yet.  It was an amazing thing  to see Democrats stand up and say, “Hey, we need to keep doing it the same way we’ve been doing it for the past 20 years so we can continue to have no statewide Democratic officeholders and a keep a fabulous super minority in the Texas House.”

Texas Democrats currently have 49 of 150 Texas House seats.  People were thrilled that under the new judicial redistricting, we have a chance – if the stars are all aligned correctly, the creek don’t rise, and we can get some money – to win between 58 and 60 of those seats.  That seems to be our goal – to have enough seats so that we don’t have to say, “Yes, sir, boss” to every Republican in the state, but not enough to actually do anything or stand for anything.

Plus, the Texas Democratic Party is $27,000 in debt and can’t seem to figure out why.

For those who love Inside Politics, KT live blogged the thing.  (Although in Bubba’s defense, KT often confused Bubba with another SDEC member because they do kinda look alike although they were on opposite sides of the issues.  Bubba spoke and voted for all of the resolutions.)  There’s also some very smart comments there.