Progressives: Punish Blue Dogs Who Vote with GOP on Health Care

It's no secret that several Blue Dog Democrats including Max Baucus, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson have been fighting the public option harder than the Republicans.  However, now Progressives Democrats are...

Can Obama win back the trust of progressives?

A spirit of bipartinsanship and unity must not take precedence in an hour of dire need,  and one which calls for determined response. Things have not been looking too good for President Obama these last...

A Long, Hot Summer of Hate

The recent musings of Conservative talk show/cable hosts like Rush Limbaugh, who attempts to align President Barack Obama and his administration with the Third Reich and Nazi Germany and...

Thom Hartmann on Obama Pt2

Radio show host Thom Hartmann on progressives and the Democratic Party

Progressives and Obama Pt. 3

Borosage: The more we are in Afghanistan as an occupying power the more we are in deep trouble

Progressives and Obama

Robert Borosage: It's up to citizen groups to drive the reforms and mobilize the public

Barack and the progressives Pt2

Katrina vanden Heuvel on Obama, the progressives and foreign policy

Russert is gone; hypocrisy lingers on

This is the first Sunday when Tim Russert will not be presiding over "Meet the Press". Whilst many mourn the passage of Tim Russert, others are making political hay over it one way or the other. Many of the...

The Clinton Divorce

No, we don't mean Bill and Hillary. We mean the separation now under way between the Clintons and the Democratic Party. Like all divorces after lengthy unions, this one is painful and has had its moments of...

CA Polls: Battles between Progressives and Feudalists

Every democrat in Nepal has admitted that feudalism is not confined to the traditional monarchy. It exists in the minds of the political leaderships belonging to all the political parties. Since feudal monarchy has ruled Nepal for about 240 years, its deep-seated impressions...

I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected

"To our presidential candidates, I am not Denny Wilkins, an individual human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. They are interested in me only because I am an...

Rudy Giuliani - Everything you hate about Bush, and worse

"Giuliani is definitely the "Teflon Don" of the current presidential campaign, in that even as more and more evidence surfaces about how deeply right-wing his politics actually are, I still run across a baffling number of people who insist that they'd vote for...

Serviceman Scolded at YearlyKos

This is how Liberals treat our servicemen."As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting down on Iraqi casualties. The...

This is one progressive who is dissatisfied with the Democratic Party, its le...

"I'm a card-carrying Democrat, and I have been since I first registered to vote when I turned 18, back in those heady days of 1991. But I've never felt particularly comfortable voting the party line. Hell, my first Presidential vote was for Ross Perot because I...

A proposal for a progressive agenda

"...Fundamentally, the ideas of the modern Republican Party leadership have been found incapable of addressing the problems facing the United States, both domestically and internationally. Thankfully, progressives have their own ideas that will prove successful at addressing...

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