On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, GRITtv broadcast live from Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC. The progressive movement for the last eight years has had to fight from the very edge--sometimes the gutter--of mainstream politics. Now that Barack Obama, a man who, John Nichols reminds us, has read Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and dined with Edward Said, is in the White House the balance of power has shifted. But many fear that in jubilation people will sit back and rather than shape Obama, allow him and a center right government make policy. How will the progressive movement push back and move forward.

To discuss the lessons of the Clinton era and what kind of change we hope to see in Washington are Eve Ensler, John Nichols, Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Dr. Bassam Haddad.