gore

It's a good one, courtesy of TPM:

As I pointed out before, Gore - even more than the Clintons and Obama - has a gift for seeing and making connections between major policy issues. You get a little taste of that in this speech.

I added a link to my Netroots Nation photo album in the right sidebar, and here's a sampling:

[UPDATE: Al Gore is in the house!]

I'm sitting in the big hall here at the Austin convention center with several hundred of my fellow progressives and the Speaker of the House. You can stream the video live here: http://www.netrootsnation.org/node/982

Nancy Pelosi is taking questions - moderated by Netroots Nation organizer Gina Cooper and one of my favorite writers, Jeffrey Feldman. Pelosi was introduced by Congressman Lloyd Doggett.

First question was about inherent contempt; short version of the answer is that she trusts Congressman Conyers' judgment, and that he is taking the lead on the strategy of dealing with contempt.

Throughout her answers, she's doing a good job of talking about what the House has been able to accomplish - something that really gets overlooked in the talk of what they haven't done.

Second question was about FISA; she argued that the House version was forced by the Senate vote, and elaborated on this theme. She made a powerful case as to why the House version was better, but most people in the crowd weren't buying it. Most interesting was that she argued that even court proceedings wouldn't have allowed any more of the facts about the White House's spying programs to come to light.

I am really impressed by the way Pelosi seems to be able to connect issues - she definitely has a larger, strategic vision of the country that doesn't get a chance to come through in sound bites.