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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:29 PM
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Has there been ONE solid PROGRESSIVE appointed to anything?
I surely can't think of one...it seems any "special" committee of any importance are packed with the "usual suspects".

republicans and depublicans.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:32 PM
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1. The progressives are appointed to the sidelines.
Or at least it looks that way.
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:39 PM
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2. The next one I can think of
will be the first.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:40 PM
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3. What decade?
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:41 PM
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4. Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under Clinton? nt
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:43 PM
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6. Yeah, we could use him now.
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Liberalynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:44 PM
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9. I've always liked and admired him
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 05:25 PM
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15. Yep. I check his website every week.
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:42 PM
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5. Elizabeth Warren n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:43 PM
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7. What was she appointed to?
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:46 PM
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10. Chair of the congressional oversight panel overseeing TARP funds.
Then became special advisor to Obama to oversee the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:54 PM
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12. Does Obama appoint chairs to Congressional panels?
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 05:01 PM
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13. I don't recall the OP asking for that.
And seems to reference the recent "special committee" which includes Kerry and Murray who may or may not be progressive depending on this forums mood.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:44 PM
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8. Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor.
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 04:47 PM
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11. Lead article on the OpEd page?
Can't really think of anything else.
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aquamarina Donating Member (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 05:03 PM
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14. Van Jones - oh, never mind.
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Modern_Matthew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 06:31 PM
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18. He snuck into the den of the moderates. They purged him quickly. nt
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 06:10 PM
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16. He's had 1132 appointments
I'm sure we can find a few. For example, isn't the new consumer protection bureau head, lauded by many?
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Maven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 06:29 PM
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17. "depublicans"
:rofl:

:cry:
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-11 06:42 PM
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19. Seems to have been that way since the Warren Commission.
Not a single member of the Warren Commission was a political ally of President Kennedy.

A fact curiously missing from American history and any mention of the Warren Commission

It's also an interesting observation, yours, Horse with no Name. The rich get richer and the middle class pay for it on the way to becoming poor.
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