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Progressive Breakfast: Public Option Limbo

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Jockeying Continues As Reid Drafts Health Care Bill Sen. Harkin does a public option whip count for NYT: "'There are 52 solid Democrats for the public option,'...

Progressive Breakfast: Hope For The Public Option

Despite Sen. Max Baucus's best efforts to pronounce it dead, the public option keeps refusing to die in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told constituents late yesterday that "we are going to have a public option before this bill goes to the...

Progressive Breakfast: Senate Climate Battle Is On

The legislative battle to lower greenhouse gas emissions is finally getting into full gear in the Senate with Wednesday's introduction of a comprehensive climate change bill. McClatchy News Service reports: The landmark legislation -- called the Clean Energy Jobs and...

Progressive Breakfast: The Cause Of His Life

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Kennedy Inspiring Action On Health Reform, While Conservatives Politicize The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel calls on Democrats to rally behind Kennedy's...

Progressive Breakfast: The Lion Sleeps

Sen. Ted Kennedy, The Liberal Lion, Dies At 77 NYT obituary: "Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the...

Progressive Breakfast: The Lion Sleeps

Sen. Ted Kennedy, The Liberal Lion, Dies At 77 NYT obituary: "Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the...

Progressive Breakfast: The Lion Sleeps

Sen. Ted Kennedy, The Liberal Lion, Dies At 77 NYT obituary: "Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will be remembered as one of the...

Progressive Breakfast: Obama The Adult

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. WH Seeks To Claim Mantle of Calm WH explains health care strategy to W. Post: "Tuesday's town hall gathering was the start of what White House officials...

Progressive Breakfast: Progressive Wheaties Edition

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. House Progressives Stand Up To Blue Dogs Progressive Caucus fires shot at Blue Dog compromise. The Nation's John Nichols: "The compromises on health care...

Progressive Breakfast: Progressive Wheaties Edition

The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. House Progressives Stand Up To Blue Dogs Progressive Caucus fires shot at Blue Dog compromise. The Nation's John Nichols: "The compromises on health care...

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