But the party seen as the major winner of the election was the Progressives, whose vote almost doubled.
But, he saw, even some of the progressives agreed with some of what Mellon said.
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In no way does this columnist wish to discourage the progressives from using February 29th from Leaping into Action!
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The debate has moved far enough along that even the progressives feel a need to get in the game.
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But the ideas Roosevelt and the Progressives fought for did succeed in time.
This did not catch on, except among prosperous suburbanites who, now that they see the Progressives cosying up again to the old firm, think them not worth supporting either.
That all helps explain why neither the progressives nor the traditionalists excel at monument design on their own and why the bad designs and the ridicule of monuments seem bound to continue.
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In this case, those people are primarily far right-wing politicians whom the moderates, the liberals and the progressives have permitted to frame the national economic issue as debt rather than revenues.
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He was in many ways typical of the Progressives, middle- and upper-class people who were alarmed at what the growth of metropolitan cities and huge corporations were doing to a rustic, egalitarian America.
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Europe's longest-serving prime minister, Iceland's conservative leader, David Oddsson, won a general election but still needs to find a coalition partner (possibly the Progressives, as before) to extend his current 12-year span in office.
The Progressives who designed the city's quirky charter, back in 1925, thought the best way to prevent corruption was to hand as much power as possible to councillors, civil servants and local bigwigs: anybody but the mayor.
If Mr Obama's luck holds, the passionate intensity of the conservatives might just cancel out that of the progressives and so affirm, in the eyes of the majority in the centre, his own claim to be reaching for precious common ground in the tricky terrain of divided government.
It will, however, cost him dearly among those who have steadfastly supported him, but are dead-set against the Transnational Progressives and their agenda.
Accordingly, it is interesting that the same progressives that are urging an end to this approach for drugs are advocating it with respect to guns.
However, it is simply impossible to rationally sympathize with the many indignant progressives who are decrying the decision of the DC Court of Appeals when the court has done nothing more than uphold the very tactic that Harry Reid used so effectively to stymie the Bush folks.
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In the early part of the last century progressives, as well as the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations, viewed the sanctity of property rights as impediments to progress instead of as the bedrock of entrepreneurial capitalism.
While recalling compassionate Conservatism, it also echoes the populism of the early American Progressives, who pledged to use government to improve the fortunes of the poor.
This reflects a strange disjunction between the optimism of the top-tier boomers--venture capitalists, academics and the self-described progressives--and the realities facing most Californians.
After all, conservatives have children and grandchildren too, and therefore have exactly the same interest as progressives in preventing incidents like the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
So I think he -- all he has to do is make the case, and he will continue to make that case, that a balanced approach to deficit reduction is in the interest of progressives, as well as every other American -- because we need to grow the economy and create jobs, and we need to get our fiscal house in order.
On the other hand, progressives have reason to celebrate because the drug benefit provides solid coverage to every senior citizen who wants it (more than 90 percent of seniors in a recent survey expressed satisfaction with their coverage).
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These are further reasons why both the single-minded pursuit of Keynesian solutions by progressives and the single-minded pursuit of budget cutting by Republicans require urgent rethinking.
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The filibustering old bulls of that era were regarded as malefactors of the worst order by progressives in both parties and by much of the general public.
Marriage withers under easy divorce, subsidized illegitimacy, and the desire among progressives to make it anything and everything.
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Since then, the sides in the continuing battle have remained more or less the same: progressives (or liberals) vs. conservatives, Democrats vs.
The Tea Party, a mixture of moderate Conservatives, Independents will neither genuflect nor bend to the will of either the GOP elites or the Liberal Democrats progressives.
His ideas have provoked some sharp responses, an indication of the tension within the Church between progressives like Cardinal Martini, who are prepared to discuss a range of contentious issues, and conservatives who are trying to prevent change.
They put together a new list of questions designed to challenge conservative and libertarian positions, and it turned out that in the new survey conservatives and libertarians did just as badly as liberals and progressives did the first time around.
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