currently drawing the ire of the left in the US: Rahm Emanuel, who has declared war, on a number of occasions, on the left wing of the Democratic party (Google Duckworth/Cegelis for but one example) and is pretty much (and deservedly so) despised by that wing. I imagine the feeling is mutual, too and explains the ads attacking him from the left of late.

When Obama named him, I immediately assumed a defensive posture viz. what would come, policy-wise, and appear to be correct in that posture. It signaled that little progress would be made, and we see this in the inherited wars and Obama's reticence to finally do the right thing and withdraw US troops. We see this on economic and fiscal policy, which is essentially are "more of same," money for bankers and little for everyone else, with even the much vaunted stimulus package wasted on the sorts of tax cuts the right-wing cherish while real stimulus measures such as aid to states was stripped out. We see this on bankrutpcy "reform" We see this on various civil rights issues (e.g torture, illegal detention, gay rights to name a few examples) as well as authoritarian creep (embrace of Bush's executive-branch prerogatives).

And, of course,  we see Rahm's fat fingers all over healthcare "reform".

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill