My post for the day is over at usabudgetdiscussion.org, the blog for the National Town Meeting on Our Budget, Our Economy that AmericaSpeaks is organizing for June 26, 2010. This national deliberation will occur simultaneously in about 20 large venues “across the country, in many Community Conversations, and online.”

I conclude my post by saying, “I am confident [that citizens] will address this difficult, divisive, and complex topic just as they handle equally challenging questions at the local level–with maturity, civility, and collective wisdom. They will model a whole new form of politics that we desperately need.”