Saturday, July 24, 2010

A progressive economic vision

As I type, I’m surrounded by a couple thousand other committed lefties in a large meeting hall at the Rio in Las Vegas.  We’re finishing up our box lunches (sponsored by the UFCW) as a number of speakers address the issue described in the title of this post.

Our luncheon guests are, in a word, impressive.  Leading off was a true rock star of financial reform—the damn-well-better-be first leader of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau created by the just-passed banking bill.  Yep, Elizabeth Warren in the house!  Standing O at the beginning and the end of her talk.  Ditto for the next speaker, birthday boy (yes, we sang) Rich Trumka. 

And now, we’re listening to Congressman Alan Grayson, perhaps the unlikeliest rock star in history!

I’ll have more reports from Netroots Nation, including my interactions with a couple of freshman Senators (probably including pictures), in the near future.  But now I need to get up and offer still another standing O for Grayson…