the exclusive, insular, closed-circle, echo-chamber, group thinking, sycophantic bunch of yes-men that make every decision for the country is still gibbs, jarrett, axelrod, and obama. it's ironic as hell that obama insists on creating czars, special advisers, and ad-hoc directors for virtually every topic imaginable, because they are never consulted.
obama has a dozen foreign policy czars and china experts, and for all they were consulted on the china trip, they may as well have stayed home.