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progressives stories: 12 news summaries

Disgruntled Dem Wants Geithner, Summers Sacked

Peter DeFazio says White House betrayed Main St. for Wall St.

Nov 19, 09 10:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Rep. Peter DeFazio wants Barack Obama to fire the Larry Summers and “Timmy Geithner” for being Wall Street lap dogs, and says there’s a “growing consensus” in the Progressive Caucus that agrees with him. Summers and Geithner oppose a Progressive proposal to use unspent TARP funds to... More »

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Barack Obama • Wall Street • Goldman Sachs • Larry Summers • Wall Street bailout • Timothy Geithner • TARP • Peter DeFazio • progressives

Matt Taibbi

 Obama's a Fraud; 
 Elect the 
 TARP Queen 

Time to face it, Obama's not delivering

Oct 23, 09 10:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Almost a year into his presidency, Barack Obama appears to suck. He hasn’t closed Guantanamo Bay, health care reform is a debacle, and worst of all, he’s “completely whiffed” on fixing Wall Street, “siding with the financial status quo, who happen to be the bad guys,... More »

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Barack Obama • Campaign Finance Reform • corporate America • Elizabeth Warren • progressives • Matt Taibbi

WATCH THE VIDEO

 Beck: Progressives 
 Are Like Slave Owners 

Plus, Fox News host is now traveling with an armed guard

Oct 21, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s latest metaphor: Progressives are like slave owners. He came up with this one last night while bemoaning the thousands of people in Detroit who lined up to apply for, as he called it, “free government money that we don’t know where it came from,”... More »

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conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • stimulus funds • progressives

Progressives Call Out Harry Reid in New Ad 

Ask if he's 'strong enough' to pass
public option

Oct 19, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - A progressive group is taking off the gloves with a new ad titled, straightforwardly, “Is Harry Reid Strong Enough?” The ad, which begins airing in Nevada on Wednesday, features a self-proclaimed “typical swing-voter” with health problems vowing ominously to vote for Reid in 2010 based exclusively on whether... More »

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Harry Reid • Nevada • health care reform • political advertising • attack ad • public option • progressives

House Dems Fear Senate,
WH Steamroll on Health Care

Moderates don't want to spend risky votes on legless progressive bill

Oct 6, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Democrats on both ends of the spectrum are feeling sorry for themselves as they struggle to shape a final health care reform bill. The bill is widely expected—based in no small part on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s proclamations—to include a public option, a tax on wealthy Americans,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Senate • House of Representatives • legislation • health care reform • Blue Dog Democrats • public option • progressives

analysis

Public Option Lives—If the Left Pushes Hard Enough

Nancy Pelosi still wants it in House-Senate compromise

Sep 25, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - As health care reform chugs through the Senate Finance Committee, Mike Madden checks in on the prospects for a public option and finds it's not quite dead yet. A big test comes today when the committee votes on amendments from supporters of the public option, such as Jay Rockefeller. "... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Charles Schumer • White House • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Obama administration • public option • progressives

opinion

Sometimes
a Bad Bill Is Good Enough

Reformers must see Baucus' effort as starting point: Krugman

Sep 18, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Progressives will soon face their "long-dreaded moment of truth" on health care reform, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times. Any bill that emerges is bound to disappoint, and "the question is where to draw the line," he explains. "How bad does a bill have... More »

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health care costs • health care reform • Paul Krugman • Max Baucus • progressives

(Newser) - To listen to the Obama camp and the liberal media, the anti-Obamacare protesters at last month’s town halls are a grave threat to our way of life, Mary Katharine Harn writes in the Weekly Standard. But “the climate of paranoia and violence that enveloped our political system... More »

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violence • Kevin Bacon • health care reform • town hall meeting • protesters • conservatives • Obama administration • President Obama • Footloose • progressives

House Progressives Call Out Obama on Public Option

Democrats may be headed for intra-party battle

Sep 4, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - House progressives have told President Obama that they “cannot vote for anything less” than health-care legislation with a “robust public option”—all but threatening a showdown if, as seems likely, the White House doesn’t push for a public plan, Talking Points Memo reports. The California lawmakers... More »

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Congress • politics • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Democratic Party • President Obama • letter • public option • progressives

OPINION

Obama Starting to Look Weak: Krugman

Progressives losing faith; public option
is the latest copout

Aug 21, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Barack Obama threw the public option under the bus, the White House was reportedly "shocked and surprised" by the ensuing liberal fury, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. “Well, I’m shocked and surprised at their shock and surprise,” he writes. From Obama's reluctance... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • Paul Krugman • liberal • public option • progressives

 Progressives' Memo: 
 Here's How to Outwit 
 Righty Protesters 

Memo urges civil discourse, chanting

Aug 6, 09 6:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A progressive organization is trying to turn the tables on conservative protesters who have been interrupting Town Hall discussions on health care reform, Talking Points Memo reports. Health Care for America Now has released a memo outlining tactics for defusing shouting matches and allowing lawmakers to actually answer questions. First... More »

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Congress • health care reform • town hall meeting • protesters • conservatives • Health Care for America Now • progressives • HCAN

(Newser) - Blue Dogs had a good day, but now liberals are howling. After the conservative Democrats managed to shift health care legislation to the center, progressive Democrats say they might mount a rebellion of their own, report Politico and the Hill. They're mostly upset that Henry Waxman agreed to water down... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • liberals • health care reform • Max Baucus • Blue Dog Democrats • progressives

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