The Democratic Party seems to be split into two very distinct factions right now: Those who want the government to do something about income inequality and those who believe that appeasing Wall Street is more important. Last night's passage of a spending bill in the House has kicked off a larger discussion about this divide within the party, because the bill contained a provision that would "let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system." That last quote was from Senator Elizabeth Warren, who's against the provision and became the de facto leader of the movement against it. (The Obama Administration urged Democrats to vote for it.)

And so the timing couldn't be any better for this announcement from Ready for Warren: Three hundred former Obama campaign staffers signed an open letter urging Elizabeth Warren to run for president. The letter concludes: "Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times, and we want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy. We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016." The symbolism of this letter happening at this moment can't be denied. More and more, Democrats feel as though their party just isn't listening to them.

It looks to me as though the liberal version of the Tea Party is just waiting to happen. Instead of cutting taxes, their platform would call for taxing the rich and building the middle class. The most important question is, when will this discussion take place? Will it be early in the Democratic primaries of 2016, or will it happen all through 2015? How civil will the discussion be? Will these financially left-leaning Democrats find the leadership that they need? (Sorry, Occupy, but leaderless organizations just don't gain political traction.) Or is this just ultimately a puff of outrage that will disperse into an already highly charged political atmosphere? The cause is there. The momentum is there. Now all that energy just needs to be focused into a movement.