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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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progressive stories: 13 news summaries

(Newser) - In an interview with Time to plug his new book, Ralph Nader doesn't mince words when asked his opinion of President Obama: "Weak. Waffling, wavering, ambiguous, and overwhelmingly concessionary." So does this mean we can expect another Nader run? "It's too early to say. One thing is... More »

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author • Ralph Nader • progressive • President Obama

ANALYSIS

 Baucus Leaning Left Again 

As interminable mark-up on health bill continues, chair moves on from bipartisan dream

Sep 23, 09 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - With his health care reform bill finally in committee, finance chair Max Baucus appears to have given up on a truly bipartisan bill. On day one yesterday, "he seemed to be moving back to the left again," writes Mike Madden in Salon. He agreed to a host of... More »

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Congress • Jon Kyl • legislation • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • Democratic Party • progressive • bipartisan • Gang of 6

OPINION Roundup

 Left: Obama 
 Finally 
 Steps Up 


Sep 10, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama delivered the speech many on the left were waiting for. Will it be enough? Here’s what they’re saying.
  • Obama seemed to shed his inner Adlai Stevenson, and discover “a new role model in the fighting Harry Truman,” writes EJ Dionne of the
... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • speech • liberal • Paul Begala • progressive

OPINION

 Chill Out, 
 Liberals: 
 Remember 
 Last August? 

Left feared disaster then—but they won in November

Aug 21, 09 5:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angry opponents are spewing spittle at the Obama administration over health care and climate change, but progressives should chill out: After all, this has happened before, Ed Kilgore writes in the New Republic. Last August, liberals withered in despair when John McCain tied President Obama at the polls. Just... More »

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climate change • John McCain • Democrats • health care reform • liberal • Election 2008 • progressive • Obama administration • President Obama

Clinton Urges Progressives
to Solidify Power

But president, Congress need help cementing it

Aug 14, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Political winds have shifted in America, says Bill Clinton: The country has “entered a new era of progressive politics which, if we do it right, could last 30 or 40 years,” the former president told liberal Internet activists at a convention in Pittsburgh. But first, he told Netroots... More »

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climate change • Congress • Bill Clinton • health care reform • Democratic Party • online activism • climate change legislation • progressive • Obama administration • Netroots Nation • President Obama

OPINION

Sotomayor Has Precious Little Liberal Cred

No way to know if would-be justice is a social progressive

Jun 10, 09 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - All the talk about race has obscured what, for liberals, ought to be the central question about Sonia Sotomayor: Is she progressive enough? There’s precious little evidence either way, writes Dayo Olopade of The Root. Sotomayor’s 2nd Circuit court leans conservative and handles mostly commercial cases; she’s... More »

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US Supreme Court • liberal • progressive • Sonia Sotomayor

OPINION

 Meghan: Specter Bailed on Us 

Party needs progressive voices, she says

Apr 30, 09 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter has let the GOP down, but only because Republicans did the same, Meghan McCain writes for the Daily Beast. “He’s been made to feel like an outcast by a small, vocal group,” says McCain, herself familiar with the “tired rhetoric” now being hurled at... More »

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GOP • Arlen Specter • Republican Party • Meghan McCain • progressive • Michael Steele

Democrats: $1 a Day Sends Norm Coleman Away

Groups pressure GOP holdout by funding other candidates

Apr 20, 09 7:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pair of Democratic groups think the best way to get rid of Norm Coleman is by pressuring his fellow Republicans. The newly formed Progressive Change Campaign Committee, together with Howard Dean’s Democracy for America, has sent an email to more than a million addresses asking supporters to donate... More »

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Howard Dean • Norm Coleman • Minnesota • Al Franken • campaign fundraising • progressive • fundraising • Republicans

OPINION

Dems, It's OK to Use
'Liberal' Tag Again

Label is ready to make a comeback

Nov 24, 08 1:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Now that Democrats have started winning again, Michael Lind wants to go back to using the word “liberal” instead of “progressive.” Writing in Salon, he explains why:
  • A name change isn’t going to protect anyone from criticism in any case, so be brave. “Your
... More »

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liberals • Democratic Party • progressive

OPINION

 Think Big, Obama 

President-elect needs to use Democrats' big mandate to bring in a 'new New Deal'

Nov 7, 08 1:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama needs to ignore those who are urging him to start small for either political or practical reasons and seize this chance to bring about the real social reforms voters have mandated, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times. "This year’s presidential election was a clear... More »

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Barack Obama • Democratic Party • mandates • progressive • Obama administration • President Obama

 Obama: Relax, I'm Not 
 Running to the Center 

Everyone's going to disagree with him sometimes, Dem says

Jul 8, 08 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Calling himself "no doubt progressive," Barack Obama today addressed accusations he has shifted to the center, the New York Times reports. “The people who say this apparently haven’t been listening to me,” he said, going on to cite his support for universal health care and... More »

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Barack Obama • universal health care • flip flop • centrist • Iraq exit strategy • progressive

OPINION

 Dems Still Stuck at Starting Gate 

Hopefuls must end race 'as soon as possible,' TNR says

Mar 31, 08 8:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's time for Democrats to panic, the editors at New Republic say. Americans are ready for a lefty, yet Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are locked in an ugly battle over racism, sexism, and the minutiae of health care policy. When one of them emerges—probably in June—that... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Democratic Party • negative campaigning • George W. Bush • progressive

Incoming Gov. No Stranger to Establishment

Spitzer successor Paterson is known as progressive, conciliator

Mar 12, 08 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - He's nothing like the New York governor who precedes him, but David Paterson brings skills that could take him far in Albany—and question marks, too. The lieutenant governor had been ready to move into Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, Politico reports, but arrives instead at the statehouse with a... More »

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Hillary Clinton • New York • Eliot Spitzer • Harlem • David Paterson • Albany • progressive

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