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Ready to clean House—and Senate—of GOP wreckers
03/22/2008
The Republicans’ use of filibuster and veto has been highly effective even as they connive to shift blame for the “do-nothing” performance of Congress to the Democrats. This crew is so heartless they even stymied programs like SCHIP, the children’s health care program that enjoys enormous bipartisan majority support across the country. Bush has vetoed SCHIP twice and twice the Democrats fell 12 or 13 votes shy of the two-thirds supermajority needed to override Bush’s veto. It remains in limbo today with millions of children losing health care protection as state’s exhaust their SCHIP funds.
“It has been very frustrating,” said Tim Carpenter, executive director of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). “We have yet to get a real vote on ending the occupation of Iraq. We’d like to see Congress assume a much more aggressive role” ...
Super Tuesday: Where's the Candidate That Represents Me?
03/06/2008
This disenfranchisement was particularly excruciating, after last Wednesday's withdrawal of John Edwards, for what the late Paul Wellstone called "the Democratic wing of the Democratic party." That wing is hardly insubstantial. Progressive Democrats of America claims to be the fastest-growing political advocacy group in the country...
KUCINICH TOPS PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS POLL
12/05/2007
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, whose pointed opposition to the war in Iraq and outspoken advocacy of impeachment of Vice President Cheney has echoed the sentiments of the Democratic base, continues to prevail in surveys of members and supporters of activist groups on the party's left flank.
Kucinich, who last month won the most votes in a survey conducted by Democracy for America, has now come out on top of an online poll of members of Progressive Democrats of America….
When left isn't left enough, they rally troops
10/28/2007
Executive director Tim Carpenter said the Progressive Democrats are considering other challenges as well.
"We're going to look for candidates who challenge those Democrats who support the war...
Protesters call for end to Iraq war
10/28/2007
Mike Carano, 53, the Ohio co-coordinator for the Progressive Democrats of America, said "This isn't just a thing where a number of people come to
"This is across-the-country sentiment about ending the occupation, redirecting funds for needs in this country, our attempt to get Congress to stand up and have its prerogative to cut funding, to take charge. That's our hope."
There Was No Summer Vacation For Anti-War Movement
08/29/2007
-- Pledge for Peace Campaign Launched
-- Members of Congress Speak Out
WASHINGTON - August 30 - With Congress in recess, antiwar forces sparked by Progressive Democrats of America have launched the "Pledge for Peace" Campaign in preparation for September's debate on Iraq Defense Appropriations.
War Made Easy
07/27/2007
In 2005, Norman Solomon released his book, War Made Easy, which exposes the manner in which US presidents manage to sell war, like clockwork, through the same fallacious arguments, largely with the help of a compliant media...
How Many U.S. Troops Will Remain In Iraq?
07/17/2007
...In an e-mail to its members, the anti-war group Progressive Democrats of America Tuesday urged them to "Tell Democrats that even if the Levin-Reed amendment passes, their work is NOT done. The Levin-Reed Amendment does not end the occupation and it leaves too many troops and all military contractors behind in Iraq."...
Progressive Democrats meet in San Luis Obispo
07/05/2007
As Plato noted 2,500 years ago, “Good men who do not concern themselves with public affairs will be ruled by evil men.” To end the rule of evil men in America, over a thousand progressive democrats met after the Democratic Convention in July, 2004 to hold the first convention of the Progressive Democrats of America...
Liberals adopt name for 'progress'
06/22/2007
Jeff Cohen of Progressive Democrats of America co-wrote a piece for the Los Angeles Times 21 years ago outlining the role of progressives in abolishing slavery and the women's suffrage movement.
"It has been so long since progressives were afforded their place in political debate that many have forgotten the rich history of the American left and its contributions to society," Mr. Cohen wrote. "History teaches us that what is 'left' today is often the common wisdom of tomorrow."
Liberals, Mr. Cohen wrote, "have often been Johnny-come-latelies hovering timidly about the edges of social movements while others put their lives and livelihoods on the line. Typically, the liberals have entered the fray only after the waters were tested and deemed safe."