Josh:

You have asked whether there is a constinuency in Congress or the US for this Green Economy investment that is in a sense the core element of the Stimulus Package outside direct aid to States, individuals and infrastructure programs that need immediate funding?

Ironically Obama and his team is already ahead of this as they have already invested in keeping together the 1.4M volunteer organizations that made up the grass roots army that got him nominated and elected. The purpose of keeping together the constinuency which held to a great degree the change movement that included Green Economy purporters was to effectively put local and political pressure on the process, specifically Congress from this channel.

This force remains highly motivated and organized where there were over 50,000 post election house parties in December just to keep the organization fused. Obama has called for his grass roots organization to have a National Day of Service the day before the inauguration to demonstrate support and breath of this organization on a local levels.

I for one believe I can in a quick notice muster over 200 local volunteers in Colorado Springs and team with 10 other Colorado cities and groups and begin phone banking and canvassing seeking to organize support for the stimulus package and apply that to Udall, Bennet, and the five Democratic Congresspersons petitioning support. We can make a lot of focused noise, louder than many organized labor or single issue constinuency groups.

I think you are still looking at this like Antonio Salieri in the story of Amadeus when he was looking through the prism of those damn 8th notes while Mozart was composing in a whole new world. Obama is not of the old Democratic prism that locked up the progressive movement in micro constinuencies like how Mark Penn viewed the world---remember. Obama see's the world as a whole and how to move it forward.

Here is the bottom line:  The Bush Administration has a deficit of 11.5M jobs in his eight years. In fact when it is done it will show his economics only created 2.95M jobs in his eight years. Each year we have to create 1.8M jobs just to incorporate in the workforce from population. Clinton created 23M jobs, roughly twice as many that were needed and why we were at full employment from '96-'00. Obama needs to grow the economy 27M jobs just to make up Bush's deficit and the annual demand by the growing workforce, that puts us back to normal employment.

The only way to do this is creating a new economy---Green Economy which solves the oil based economy and the global warming economy at the same time. I think the political reality is that there is nothing but this. The by-product is taking the healthcare system on the table and relieving the business community of this albatross and transfering the economy to the public sector in this regards. The providers who resist will be identified as selfish and greedy for that is the only sector not in a Depression.