Obama Progressives

A More Progressive Budget, a More Progressive President?

Richard Kirsch | Posted 04.16.2012

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The real challenge for progressives is to use 2012 to increase the likelihood that a reelected President Obama will keep to the new course in 2013.

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Progressives, Obamabots and a Realistic Evaluation of the President

Bob Cesca | Posted 03.20.2012

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Should we undermine the most progressive-minded president in at least a generation and will his failure help or hurt the progressive cause? Will his failure pave the way for a more progressive president or a less progressive president? This is the debate on the left.

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Obama Debt Reduction Plan Calms Democrats' Concerns On And Off Hill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's broad new debt reduction proposal has, at least momentarily, managed to placate a community of progressive acti...

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Progressives Ask Obama To 'Go Big' With Jobs Plan

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 10.30.2011

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Sixty-seven major progressive organizations have penned an open letter to President Barack Obama, asking him to "go big" as he prepares a new jobs pla...

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Memo to Media: Netroots Is Not Just Liberals Bashing Obama

Ari Melber | Posted 08.17.2011

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Stories recounting liberals' "frustration" and disappointment with Obama are dominating coverage of this year's Netroots Nation. But these stories miss the mark, fitting into a precooked narrative about "Progressives vs. Obama."

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White House Steps Into Progressive Lion's Den

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.17.2011

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer found himself in the often uncomfortable position of defending President Obama'...

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Progressive Group To Supporters: Withhold Donations To Obama If He Cuts Medicare, Medicaid

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.12.2011

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WASHINGTON -- One of the thorniest progressive groups in the side of the Obama administration is launching a new campaign against the president on Tue...

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Drawing the Line

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

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When it comes to the decisions that I myself make, and the actions I take, I do have a line I believe I should not cross. But it's more problematic when it comes to drawing lines for others not to cross, presidents included.

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Time to Think the Unthinkable: A Democratic Primary Challenge To Obama's Reelection

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is not easy to consider challenging the first African-American to be elected as President of the United States. But, regrettably, I believe that the time has come to do this.

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When the Poor Conspire to Keep Themselves Poor

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

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Crises demand far more than tweaking and nibbling at the edges. Obama squandered a unique opportunity, not realizing that you don't bring a spatula to a gunfight.

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Thousands Rally At The Lincoln Memorial For Jobs, Justice And Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scroll down for photos Tens of thousands of civil rights, labor, and other progressive activists gathered on the National Mall today for the One Na...

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Memo to America's Middle Class: Obama Is Just Not That Into You

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Obama is going to do the right thing for America's middle class, it's going to take Hope 2.0 -- the people have to make him do it.

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Rep. Ellison: 'Gibbs Crossed The Line'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Progressive Democrats fired back at Robert Gibbs on Tuesday, following the White House press secretary's sharp critique of what he called a "professio...

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Power Struggle: Inside The Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party (Print Version)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim and Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raúl Grijalva is sitting quietly with a few of his staffers at one end of the bar, a bottle of Bud and a shot of whiskey in front of him, while his f...

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Power Struggle: Inside The Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim and Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raúl Grijalva is sitting quietly with a few of his staffers at one end of the bar, a bottle of Bud and a shot of whiskey in front of him, while his f...

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BP and the Bankers

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

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What do the oil catastrophe and the Wall Street collapse have in common? In both cases, a powerful, politically protected industry invented something that could not easily be repaired when it broke.

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Obama To Progressives: This Is Just The Foundation

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama began his meeting with leading House progressives by bringing in a letter from an Ohio woman who wrote him to say that her skyrocketin...

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gray Matters: Bye Bye Health Care as Obama Moves to the Passionless Center

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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When, if ever, will Obama take the offensive to save his congressional majority? Obama says he's not an ideologue; does that mean he has no ideology?

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The Two Obamas

Teri Szucs | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a naturalized citizen, I hold dual citizenships, and dual political points of view that see two presidents.

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The Democrats' Authoritarian Health "Reform" Bill and the Ascendency of Corporatism in the Democratic Party

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011

From the moment he was elected, Obama has governed not as a progressive liberal but as a corporatist liberal. Progressive liberals hoped Obama would be like FDR. Instead, he's been like Bill Clinton on steroids.

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The Demoralized Democratic Base

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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New polls show much of the erosion in support for Democrats' health care effort is coming from the progressive base that believes Democrats have compromised away too much to the insurance industry.

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

I'm happy for union workers who've earned "better" plans through collective bargaining. But I'm somewhat unsympathetic on the subject when most of us working stiffs can't afford any plan at all.

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David Axelrod Knocks Sen. Ben Nelson For Threatening Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the president's top advisers criticized Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) on Thursday for threatening to filibuster health care reform despite his recor...

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Learning from Lieberman

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the health care bill goes down, the far right will add another notch to their belt, the media will paint Obama as a loser, and Obama will be even more cautious and pro-corporate going forward.

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