This is more than getting to 60 in the senate, although that is vital as well, this is about discipline. Turning the US from a blue/red state mess into a coalition is not just campaign propaganda. Obama's principle is to become the change you want to see in the world, in this case, the world of politics. It's easy to mend fences with green republicans who opposed the war. If we can work with Lieberman, the man who repeated nearly every slur against Obama promulgated during the sleazy McCain campaign, we can work with nearly anyone? Cancel the bickering until the economy is fixed, oil wars are obsolete, and GHG is under control. It's all about oil...again. About replacing it as an energy source over the next 10 to 20 years.    more »

Pretty amazing news! It looks like some of the people running the world economy are considering re-evolutionary notions only discussed on blogs?   more »