openleft.com - 11/24/2008
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It is a little disconcerting to discover that a throwaway line you wrote in a Friday evening blog post is, three days later, appearing across several national news outlets . None the less that happened to me today:
Chris Bowers, who writes on the OpenLeft.com blog, complained that the foreign ...
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com - 11/24/2008
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campaignsilo.firedoglake.com —
Chris Hayes : Not a single, solitary, actual
dyed-in-the-wool progressive has, as far as I can tell,...
even been mentioned for a position in the new administration. Not one. Remember this is the movement that was right about Iraq, right about wage ...
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Obama and a Paucity of Progressives
thenextright.com - 11/24/2008
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thenextright.com —
One of the main reasons bandied about for
the GOP's decline is its lack of ideas. According...
to this re-telling, conservative think tanks once kept the idea pipeline freshly stocked, and it was this intellectual revival that underpinned GOP victories ...
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Are Progressives Out of Ideas?
newshoggers.com - 11/23/2008
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newshoggers.com —
By Cernig On November 18th, the Campaign for
America's Future, a progressive think-tank, launched a report that...
called for a massive investment to create jobs and restore America's neglected infrastructure. Now, President-Elect Obama has promised ...
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Obama Listening To Progressives, Investing In The Future
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Hullabaloo —
Crisis Management by digby There's a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about Obama not picking enough progressives for his cabinet, some of which I've participated in backstage, although I haven't written a lot about it on this blog. I tend to see this in a couple of ways. First, as I said, I think Obama was pretty clear during the campaign that he was not an ideologue but rather a pragmatic technocrat. You'll all recall this quote: "What I'm saying is I think the average baby-boomers have moved beyond the arguments of the ...
11/25: Judging Obama By The Company He Keeps
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... 's Bowers is frustrated by the lack of progressives in Obama's cabinet: "Obama's current cabinet picks, or his rumored to be leading choices, are almost entirely Republicans or DLC 'New' Democrats. To put my complaint more succinctly, it is a centrist cabinet lacking any clear progressives. While there are at least three examples of progressives scoring senior staff positions within the White House , the same cannot be said, as of this writing, of the cabinet picks. If this really is going to be an administration that listens to diverse voices, we need representation in both ...
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