Almost every day there appear to be new depressing developments: reform-minded officials walking away from the government, progressive appointments blocked or stalled.
While his backers were still hot to trot, he became cooler toward them, and, in effect, repudiated them with few progressive appointments.
Of course, you can always fantasize about a progressive dream appointment, such as Pamela Karlan, the brilliant legal scholar recently placed in charge of voting rights enforcement of the DOJ, or Preet Bharara, the US attorney general for New York and Wall Street's Enemy No1.
His idea behind the future of payments is using game mechanics (sunken reward, progressive and appointment dynamics) to drive mobile wallet usage.
For progressives, Van Jones' appointment was, and is, Obama's tour de force gift to America of a high level appointee free of corporate entanglements who cannot and will not be bought.
Just as an add-on to my column this week, I wanted to add two more macro thoughts about Obama's appointments, and progressive unrest about those appointments.
A member of the Democratic Party's relatively conservative Blue Dog faction while in the House, Gillibrand has been seen as a progressive since her appointment to the Senate.
Appointment of progressive Cardinal Bea to the Holy Office was important.
And, like other left-leaning constituencies, they would like the Administration to focus more on the appointment of progressive federal judges, in which even Senate Democrats believe they have lagged.
This openness coincided with the growth of the National Center for Transgender Equality, FORGE's groundbreaking federal grants from the Department of Justice, the hiring of out trans staffers by the Center for American Progress and many other LGBT and progressive organizations, and the appointment of out transgender people to high-visibility federal positions.
