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terrible, awful bill and right now i think why the elizabeth warrens are having momentum is because you have institutions like the progressive change, like the working families party, like a number of other institutions. let me build on what david s saying here, because the dynamic here is different insofar as talking about getting policies through with bankruptcy, it s something transactional. liberals have a disadvantage where they re looking for government to do things, actually in some ways. and the pccc is one of those groups that does not have the same sort of stakes. right. they can burn bridges in a way that democratic and left-leaning and progressive groups in the past have not been able to do. they can actually go out there this is the difference, i think, is the virtue of recklessness, because what i think what you ve seen with the tea party is they are reckless. i mean, they are reckless with the country, they re reckless with people s lives, but they re also ....
Against him by people who didn t want to see him win that nomination, amanda, and clearly ties to the wall street regulatory record of larry summers from the clinton years and sort of where the democratic party is right now on wall street were central to the resistance to larry summers we saw. right. with bill daly, you didn t see the progressive community nationally get behind him and get excited. you didn t see pccc come in and endorse him. there is certainly right now, you know, i feel look a few years ago it was people like obama, who said that they opposed the iraq war, they weren t going to pursue that sort of neocon foreign policy. those people in the democratic party were sort of popular, that s what people are focused on. much more now it is the economy. it is looking for a more progressive, more populist economy. it is people who are concerned they haven t done well and that safety net isn t there. and people like bill daly, larry summers, are sort of not in vogue with the ....
We rush into syria alone with no real plan for the consequences? we already know it gets worse. meanwhile congressional democrats are feeling pressure to tow the party line. last week according to the hill congressional black caucus were told to limit public comment while the president makes his case. the white house requested a second call with the 71 member progressive congressional congress after members skipped out on a wednesday call. on the eve of the president s address to the nation, it is clear he has work to do both within his party and oufts it. co-founder of the progressive change campaign committee adam green. thanks for being with us. great to be here. difficult to talk about in certain circles. pccc put out a statement that said you now face a decision that involves life and death. this decision also involves billions of dollars and it will send a signal to your constituents and the world about ....
Time he said i m going to have a strike, but i m going to congress? you lose credibility. is that all you got on the president, senator mccain? give me a break. the majority of americans are glad he went to the congress. on the flip side, several democratic leaders have come on this program to express their concerns over the united states interfering in a civil war in syria. this president came into office and was elected twice based on getting us out of war, not getting us into wars. if the effort does not go well, some time in the future it could, it could mean american troops on the ground. we ought to get an amendment ready to put a tax on to pay for it. we ve got our own problems to deal with. people don t want us to be the policeman for the world any longer. they dent want us to be the judge, the jury or the executioner. the progressive campaign committee, the progressive change campaign committee, the pccc, this is a group that doesn t shy away from ....
Challenging democrats when they don t act progress. they are sending a memo to congress, saying that the base overwhelmingly opposes intervention into syria. adam green, co-founder of the pccc joins me tonight. adam, good to have you with us. do you have a sense where the liberal base is in this country? and is it at a fever pitch? we do have a sense. i would say first that the progressive change campaign committee was the first organization to publicly praise president obama for giving congress this option, for following the constitution and aluing the people s representatives to have a vote. but we had an intensive 72-hour survey of our national membership, every state, every congressional district. and by an overwhelming margin, the 57,000 people who took that survey said do not bomb syria. the margin was 73% to 18% among the progressive base. so why aren t liberals with president obama? they fought so hard to get him ....