Buchanan said he considered Sotomayor unqualified and called her an "affirmative-action appointment" by Obama.
For their part, administration officials defend their actions, appointments and budgets as sound.
But a key part of Obama's reform still awaits action: the appointment of a permanent special envoy in the State Department to oversee hostage negotiations.
For now, that means unions are largely waging rearguard actions: standing up for immigrants brave enough to organize their workplaces, resisting dangerous new rules from the federal government that would make it easier for bosses to abuse their employees, and raising the alarm about every executive action (or appointment to the National Labor Relations Board) that threatens their recruitment.
Eliminating the 60-vote filibuster on legislation would be a much more profound change to the functioning of government than today's actions on appointments will be.
For the president-elect, the outgoing president's 11th-hour actions, including appointments of his loyalists to career positions, stir resentment.
Just as democracy doesn't guarantee justice, happiness, peace or affluence, having a democrat in charge doesn't guarantee efficiency or good sense (even Orbán's supporters are bewildered by some of his actions and appointments).
Another former member of PACHA, Lucy Bradley-SPh.D.er, Ph.D. and R.N., was so disappointed with actions and appointments during the first few months of the new administration that she felt she could not stay on PACHA in a meaningful capacity.
Birchbox, the beauty subscription startup, launched an athleisure beauty brand called Arrow that is "designed to keep up with your on-the-go, active life whether that means going straight from Pilates to brunch or just powering through an action-packed, appointment-filled day". With these market segments, it becomes clear that there is an important style aspect to athleisure.
As reprehensible as most of Trump's actions and appointments have been so far, their broader consequences, for the most part, are reversible at some later date.
