Jim Messina, Obama's Enforcer

Messina is the campaign manager for Obama's 2012 re-election machine and has shown a brazen tendency to tune out the concerns of progressive and grassroots advocacy groups and blocked them from lobbying to improve the healthcare bill. Messina was a longtime aide to conservative Blue Dog Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont) whose political record is detailed here:
"At the beginning of the healthcare debate in 2009, many Democrats were justifiably concerned about the role that Baucus, chair of the powerful Finance Committee, would play in shepherding the Obama administration’s domestic policy priority through the Senate. Baucus had brokered the passage of George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts and 2003 Medicare prescription drug plan, and had spent the better part of the Bush presidency cutting deals with Republicans and infuriating fellow Democrats. Other transgressions included voting for the war in Iraq, the energy bill, the bankruptcy bill and to confirm Supreme Court Justice John Roberts. Among Senate Democrats, only Nebraska’s Ben Nelson had a more conservative voting record on economic issues than Baucus. Moreover, Baucus accepted the most special-interest money of any senator between 1999 and 2005, and had at least two dozen staffers working as lobbyists on K Street, including for healthcare companies adamantly opposed to reform."
http://www.thenation.com/article/159577/jim-messina-obamas-enforcer