Reply #6: He doesn't think so

[zipplewrath]

You can play the label game all ya want, but he doesn't consider himself a progressive. And there wasn't much progressive about HCR. It was mostly 15 year old GOP ideas created to block universal health care. It mandated an obligation to purchasing health insurance, with no obligation to actually receive health care. It had regressive taxes in both mandates and the cadillac tax. Nothing about that is progressive. It isn't about not being "progressive enough", it isn't "progressive" at all.

He's a democrat and not all progressive ideas are unique, so there will frequently be a close alignment between progressive ideals and what he actually does. But he is not a progressive, doesn't want to be, and brags that he rejects progressive ideas. His CoS is a DLC sympathizer, and they definitely don't want to be considered progressives.

If you like what he is doing, fine. I just don't understand why folks what to place labels on him that he, himself, rejects.