You know what you have when someone or some group is called "progressive" don't you? Why a fellow travelor, better known as fracking Commie!
It seems they (Progressives) have plenty of help promoting it (George Soros ideas run through the Clinton's mouthpieces) from the NYT...
New York Times October 12, 2003
Notion Building
By MATT BAI
The complete article
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60810FC3A580C718DDDA90994DB404482
Excerpt--
... [John] Podesta is a 54-year-old marathon runner with an intense, angular face that seems to suggest he is always calculating something you would never be able to grasp. He is also the leader and architect of a new liberal think tank in Washington known as the Center for American Progress. His goal is to build an organization to rethink the very idea of liberalism, a reproduction in mirror image of the conservative think tanks that have dominated the country's political dialogue for a generation.
Many such left-leaning ventures have been tried over the years and have failed to wield much influence, but Podesta's effort seems different, not only because of his considerable personal stature within the party but also because rage at the Bush administration has galvanized Democrats. ...
Matt Bai is a contributing writer for the magazine