I do think there's some validity to making "progressive" a more left-inclined subset of "liberal". But it seems unlikely that that's what Hillary meant by it.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

Having said that, let's be clear (even if most political pundits won't be) that it's Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and their followers who have willfully attempted to stomp out every ember of hope.  They've been boasting about their "Party of No" strategy to the NY Times and others in recent weeks.  You don't have to like or agree with Rahm Emmanuel to recognize that he's been a key member of the most successful Democratic year in Washington in decades.

One lesson that Saul Alinsky's successors (among them, the organizers who hired and trained a young Barack Obama in the 1980s) carried forward was the importance of building powerful community organizations with a "charismatic collective of leaders"---as opposed to organizations with one charismatic leader.

Obama's received criticism both for some of the leaders he's hired (e.g., Emmanuel) and for pulling so many leaders out of their own power bases and into his administration (e.g., Napolitano and Sibelius).  

Whether you agree with Obama's strategy or not, he's been fairly consistent throughout his career.  He goes after and tries to persuade the most talented, most powerful people around to be part of his team.  (He did that when hiring much of Dick Gephardt's and Tom Daschle's old staffs when elected to the US Senate in 2004.)

And he's confident, in the end, of two things:  

1.  talented people with differing views in the room together leads to better decisions, and;  

2.  his own ability to manage and lead strong, even clashing personalities.

*passed the most significant social legislation in 45 years;
*passed the most significant deficit reduction legislation in 17 years;
*reduced by 2/3 the US troop presence in Iraq;
*stopped the Great Recession (and prevented it from becoming a full-blown Depression);
*saved college students and taxpayers billions of dollars annually by reforming the federal student loan program;
*dramatically increased federal spending on education while reforming the worst aspects of "No Child Left Behind";
*invested, through the Recovery Act, billions of dollars in energy efficiency, clean energy and high speed rail;
*reversed the worst (not all, but the worst) of the Constitutional abuses of the Bush administration's "war on terror", while still waging two wars;
*dramatically repaired America's relationships with nations around the world.

We wouldn't be progressives (or liberals, or whatever we want to call ourselves) if we were satisfied.  But we'd be poor strategists not to claim the victories we've won, and then use those victories as evidence for the need to keep moving forward.

http://www.c-span.org/

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

And since you've been hearing a whole bunch of nonsense, let's just be clear on what exactly the proposal that they're going to vote on in a couple of days will do.  It's going to -- it's going to change health care in three ways.  Number one, we are going to end the worst practices of insurance companies.  (Applause.)  This is -- this is a patient's bill of rights on steroids.  (Laughter.)  Starting this year, thousands of uninsured Americans with preexisting conditions will be able to purchase health insurance, some for the very first time.  (Applause.)  Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned forever from denying coverage to children with preexisting conditions.  (Applause.)  Starting this year, insurance companies will be banned from dropping your coverage when you get sick.  (Applause.)  And they've been spending a lot of time weeding out people who are sick so they don't have to pay benefits that people have already paid for.  Those practices will end.

If this reform becomes law, all new insurance plans will be required to offer free preventive care to their customers.  (Applause.)  If you buy a new plan, there won't be lifetime or restrictive annual limits on the amount of care you receive from your insurance companies.  (Applause.)  And by the way, to all the young people here today, starting this year if you don't have insurance, all new plans will allow you to stay on your parents' plan until you are 26 years old.  (Applause.)

So you'll have some security when you graduate.  If that first job doesn't offer coverage, you're going to know that you've got coverage.  Because as you start your lives and your careers, the last thing you should be worried about is whether you're going to go broke or make your parents broke just because you get sick.  (Applause.)  All right?

You can read the whole thing here. I happened to watch the speech on Cspan, and it was masterful. Couldn't find the video, though.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."