Obama's moving right along.

It looks like the days of a White House that can only focus on one major effort at a time is over. Besides getting his bill passed through Congress even before being inaugurated so that it will be waiting for him to sign on inauguration day, Barack Obama has just announce the conversion of the political outreach machine that got him elected into a permanent organization.

The LA Times wrote about the effort Wednesday, and yesterday the Washington Post wrote that the name of the new organization has been announced.

The organization will be called "Organizing for America" and will be operated by a handful of political operatives out of the Democratic National Committee. It is expected to allow the President to reach out to supporters in each state and congressional district and provide grassroots support for the President's initiatives.

I can see the Republicans already salivating at the possibility of creating a similar conservative organization, but the comparatively poor performance of McCain in attempting to raise funds through the Internet suggest that they will have a much harder time making it work as long as they try to push the conservative agenda from and through conservative think tanks and organized groups of Evangelical pastors down to the conservative foot soldiers. Obama's biggest advantage is that he is the man who speaks for the beliefs held by most Americans. He has become President in large part because he reflected the views held by his organized grassroots constituencies. Because of that, he can use a bottom-up model of organizing which is incompatible with the top-down organizing methods used by the Republicans.

The right-wing conservative agenda is simply not compatible with that kind of bottom-up grassroots organization. Without the free flow of information from the grassroots to the President along with Barack Obama's clear ability to enact the beliefs and attitudes expressed, the system will not work as well for the conservatives as it has for him. If you don't think so, watch what is already happening as the Republican Congressional Leadership takes far right extremist positions to oppose Obama and the Democrats. It cost them in the 2006 election, again in the 2008 election, and it will cost them in the 2010 election.

In any case, this is going to be a fascinating enterprise. I think it has the capability of greatly changing American national politics as we have known it.