Ed Pastor hardly qualifies as a progressive when even the hispanics that make up the majority of his district feel disenfranchised by him.

Now I could go down that list and find progressives and not-so-progressives, but that would take more time than I have to responde.  Barbara Lee is obviously a true progressive.  Yet she voted to continue the kleptocracy.  

The fact is, TARP is kleptocracy, plain and simple.  The Republicans HAVE to vote against it because it is a slap in the face to their True Believers it's such blatant kleptocracy.  You see, they support ripping us all off, just so long as their constituents don't understand it's a ripoff.  THIS, however, is even too blatant for them so they have to turn the the Dems, who believe the Government can intervene in the economy.  The Dems are correct, the Gov CAN intervene.  However, TARP is not intervention.  It's a scam.

Not all progressives realize this and many Dems are being swept up in Obamaism and go along with what was Bush's plan and now is Obama's because his economic team is all for it.

That his economic team is all for it and that his economic team is comprised of Chicago School of Economics Alumni, the same school that breeds "free trade" voodoo economists like rabbits, raises serious and valid concerns about Obama's economic policies.

That it took a large proportion of die hard progressives such as Dennis Kucinich, the archetypical progressive candidate, Jay Inslee and John Conyers to ally with such unlikely people as the Republicans and the Blue Dogs and stop the further funding of this scam IS a major victory for progressivism.  As Sirota said:

So all in all, we should be pretty unhappy that another $350 billion of taxpayer cash - or roughly $1,100 for every man, woman and child in America - is likely headed to Wall Street, no strings attached. But other than failing to stop that money (an almost impossible task because the new president could have effectively vetoed his way to the money), the legislative wrangling over the bailout has been a huge success for the progressive movement. We've helped build a bipartisan coalition in Congress on these issues, and forced the new administration to - at least rhetorically through letters - acknowledge the deep concerns we have with kleptocracy. In defeat, we have scored some real victories that we can build off of.

If you don't understand that, I suggest you ask yourself what you think a progressive is and then go check that identification with what the progressive movement considers itself.

Then stop drinking the Obama Kool-Aid and come back to the reality based community.  We need ya Boo!