[Jess]

I thought that most of his advisors were selected by him? Am I off base with this?

I think it would be easy to look to the advisor's if he hadn't personally appointed them. I look at the credentials of most of his advisor's ( for example Elizabeth Warren new assistant with economic issues) and they seem to be very impressive, albeit I think mostly academic rather than " hand's on", as it were.

I tend to feel more strongly that his "party" is to blame for the very dissent that is going on within it's ranks. The people hired to make sure he won.
Too many election promises with no delivery.

I am very concerned that the more moderate democrats will swing away from "party politics" and unfortunately unless they are able to rally a strong voice of reason, pulling the more reasonable democrats together, there is little place else to go than to side with republicans. Here again, unfortunately "Republicans" are mostly associated with the McCains out there, ultra conservative God fearing bible thumping fear mongers whom still lead their constituents through means of pulling on their "christian" based views of right vs wrong, rather than on common sense and common welfare.

I am hoping to see more "common sense" politics and sense of fair play emerge. I wish we could take the best and the brightest of both parties, lose the extremists ( even though some extremists are indeed brilliant) and find a path our country can walk and thrive. Right now, I don't see either party being cohesive enough to be effective.