Change is so hard to track -- with new faces like Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Larry Summers, Madeleine Albright, Ron Klain, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, James Steinberg . . . (Think the Netroots are happy about this?)
Your new players (hope you kept your old program): "The Obama transition team yesterday rolled out a new list of officials who will help guide the process, singling out the Treasury, Defense and State departments as its first three areas of focus," Anne E. Kornblut and Michael Abramowitz write in The Washington Post. "Three policy- oriented Democrats -- Melody Barnes, Lisa Brown and Don Gips -- will serve as co-chairs of the agency review process, the office of President-elect Barack Obama said."
The list "sheds light on the types of people his administration will lean on and what institutions may claim clout in the new Washington," The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler and Jonathan Weisman report. "The group is filled with second-tier veterans of the Clinton administration and workers in the technology and financial sectors. It includes four former lobbyists, three top campaign fund-raisers and two former employees of troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, with some overlap among them. Four people in the group have ties to the consultant McKinsey & Co. and two have experience leading high-tech start-ups."
"16 out of 19 of these folks worked in some capacity for the administration of President Clinton, which will no doubt cause some to question just how much 'change' can really come of these appointments," ABC's Jake Tapper reports. "But on the other hand, one can't expect Democrats who can be relied upon to help run a government to just pop out fresh from thin air."