After Victory
CAPAF’s memo “A Progressive Triumph”. Key quotes:
ThatÃs why candidates who embraced progressive solutions to these problems won. Obama ran on the most progressive platform of any presidential candidate in at least 15 years, including a promise of universal health care coverage, a dramatic transformation to a low-carbon economy, and a historic investment in education. Winning congressional candidates also embraced progressive policies. And polls showed that voters supported progressive solutions by wide margins.
In a few short months, leaders who support progressive ideals will take up the reins of government in Washington. We must rise to the occasion. We must move beyond the false choice of left versus center to embrace solutions as big as the challenges we face.
We need investments now to jumpstart our economy while laying the foundations for sustained economic growth. Restoring confidence in our economy will require a new direction for the economy, health care, clean energy, and education. And we must be willing to set priorities on government spending to restore budgetary responsibility in the coming years.
If we do these things, then we can translate yesterday’s victory at the polls into a victory for health care, clean energy, national security, and a stronger and larger middle class. The American people are ready. Now it’s time to deliver.
Indeed.
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November 5th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“Progressive” has now officially been redefined by the Center for American Progress as “slightly to the left of where we are now.”
November 6th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Matt, I’m a new reader of your terrific site (this is my first time commenting), and have especially enjoyed the thoughfulness of the discourse I’ve found here. I hadn’t heard of CAP before, but was really interested learning more about the organization since you and the other quality bloggers on the Think Progress site were involved with it.
That said, the “Progressive Triumph” memo that CAP put out, and that I linked to through your blog, read pretty lame. Sounded like some ho-hum Democratic-flack press release. I hope that’s not the best CAP is capable of — c’mon, nobody over there has got a more stirring and grounded call to action in the wake of this election?
Among other sentences that caught my eye was this bit of hyperbole: “The American people rejected these stale ideas…” — NOPE. 52 percent of the American people rejected these stale ideas. And that’s an amazingly important fact — and cause for concern — that we should all keep in mind as we seek to further progressive causes in the wake of Obama’s win.
Thanks, I’ll be reading…