Obama Progressives

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insisted on Tuesday that the president has been consistent in demanding that both moderates and progressives ...

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.

The White House, along with several progressive groups and high-ranking Democrats, is pushing back against reports that the administration is advancin...

The White House expressed surprise last week that the "left of the left" had clung so forcefully to the public insurance option as a must-have element...

Some progressive groups are calling for a confrontation with Obama. While we should always strive for better, we can't let the perfect eclipse what in reality is extraordinarily good.

I understand that nobody wants to be on the outside like they were during the Bush years, but the price of a few cocktail parties at the White House -- and the threat of lost donors -- is buying a lot more than it should.

The polling is clear that the American people are ready for big progressive change. But every day there's another reminder that we are not there yet, that big change will not come without a big fight.

How Obama can bridge the divide between activists and the Democratic establishment by delivering real change will be one of the defining stories of the Obama presidency.

700 or so comments later, here are the best of the bunch. Let the record show that you people are way more cynical than I am...

Hope was a fine slogan when rooting for a long-shot presidential candidate. But as a posture toward the president of the most powerful nation on earth, it is dangerously deferential.

As a multi-cultural, African-American, son of an immigrant, and as the personification of hope for an idealistic young generation, if Obama fails, it hurts progressive hopes for decades.

Just as the abolitionists fought with Lincoln at times and the labor movement demanded more of FDR, the progressive movement of our era will have to be tough on Obama.

Justin Ruben must now take a network that has long battled bad ideas and adapt it to supporting and broadening the administration's agenda.

News that a cadre of progressive groups and leaders schmoozed with the president represents a symbolic end-note of sorts to eight years that saw the s...

At a private White House cocktail reception last night for leaders of major progressive groups, Barack Obama and his wife Michelle appealed to these l...

First President Obama wasn't "black enough" for the black left. Then he was "too centrist" in his appointments for the white left. Then he wasn't gay friendly enough. Now he is President.

If our new president is truly devoted to change, he will separate, once and for all, the sloppy, congealed mess that is Church and State. He will allow us to shed unsolicited religious ideology which suffocates us like a dirty, wet t-shirt.

So long as Obama remains committed to longstanding progressive objectives, it makes sense to assume that the strategy and rhetoric that helped him achieve his political triumph is worth continuing.

Barack Obama's pledge for a post-partisan America has a skeptic in his former liaison to the progressive community. Mike Lux, who served for nearly t...

Leaving transition work, I find myself a lot more hopeful about generally progressive policy coming out of the Obama administration than some of my friends in the progressive blogosphere.

The gay marriage issue has intruded so profoundly on gay politics that I am told I should protest the inauguration of Obama, because he invited a minister to say a prayer whose main priorities are climate change, poverty, and AIDS.

How is it that queers became the odd ones out at such a momentous turning point in history? By pushing an agenda of stupid issues like gay marriage.

Barack Obama's appointment of Rep. Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor put an end to the preliminary process of crafting his economic team. It has been,...

By selecting Rick Warren, Barack Obama has sent out the wrong message to the American people. He has betrayed not only gay and lesbian and transgendered Americans, he has betrayed us all.

Ever since Barack Obama was elected president, the media has been pining to write a story about liberal dissatisfaction with his transition efforts. B...