The Progressive Beat with Melody Barnes airs on XM channel 130 at 6:30 pm (rebroadcast at 9:30 pm) on Tuesday evenings. The Progressive Beat will give you an opportunity to get behind the rhetoric and slogans, and focus on the issues and the people shaping the 2008 presidential debate.
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Just how powerful should the president be? On today's show, we'll find out what former Reagan Adminstration lawyer Bruce Fein thinks as Congress prepares to hear testimony about the Bush White House's plan to reshape the presidency.
Everyone is talking about working class voters but is the press talking to them? Award winning journalist and author Phil Dine, and the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s David Madland will give us the scoop.
Finally, we'll discuss religion and politics with E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and author of Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics after the Religious Right, and Sally Steenland, Senior Policy Advisor to the Faith & Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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