The big news over the weekend, besides the blizzard that has blanketed the Northeast, concerns plans by President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) to do an end run around our system of checks and balances and the wishes of the American people.

As I reported yesterday, Obama plans to have his minions at the Environmental Protection Agency place new restrictions on greenhouse emissions, additionally announcing plans for new power plants and oil refinery emission standards over the next year. 

Cap ‘n Trade, anyone?

Also, do you remember when former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin touched off a firestorm when she suggested that Obamacare would lead to bureaucratic “Death Panels”, deciding when someone’s life was worth living?

Democrats responded by dropping end-of-life planning from Obamacare. However, the our benevolent dictator has ignored our system of checks and balances by hiding end of life planning is some Medicare regulation, which begins Jan. 1.

Under the new policy, the government will pay doctors who advise patients on options for end-of-life care, which may include advance directives to forgo aggressive life-sustaining treatment.

Obama’s sycophants in the 111th Congress kept their mouths shut, even though they knew what was happening. They were afraid, and with good reason, of the righteous indignation of Americans, like they experienced in 2009 when they were forced to drop it from Obamacare.

The final version of Obamacare, which became the law of the land in March, authorized Medicare coverage of yearly physical examinations, or wellness visits.

The new, hidden policy in the Medicare regulation says Medicare will cover “voluntary advance care planning,” to discuss end-of-life treatment, as part of the annual visit.

Under the rule, doctors can provide information to patients on how to prepare an “advance directive,” stating how aggressively they wish to be treated if they are so sick that they cannot make health care decisions for themselves.

While “Advance Directives” have been around for a while, this government policy seems to be attempting to bypass the family’s wishes and replace the counsel of family members with that of government-funded doctors.

Americans should have seen this coming.  Remember Obama’s Recess Appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, bypassing Senate confirmation, in July of this year? 

Dr. Berwick, a big fan of the British government-run Health Care System, said this in a prep talk to a British audience:

You could have let an unaccountable system play out in the darkness of the private enterprise instead of accepting that a politically accountable system must act in the harsh and admittedly sometimes very unfair daylight of the press, public debate, and political campaigning.

You could have had a monstrous insurance industry of claims and rules and paper-pushing instead of using your tax base to provide a single route of finance.

He has also said:

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must — must — redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

And, here’s the money quote:

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly.

You can say, ‘Well, we shouldn’t even look.’ But that would be irrational. The social budget is limited — we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can’t. We have to be realistic about the knowledge base.

Translation:  Grandma – Ice Floe – Buh Bye

What a charmer.  He fits right in with this administration of aloof, academic pinheads. 

What these two clandestine operations emphasize is Obama’s dogged determination to follow through with his dream to radically change America into a Socialist Utopia, regardless of the wishes of the American people.

On November 2nd, 2010, Americans spoke in a loud voice, using the ballot box to voice their displeasure in the leadership of President Barack Hussein Obama, and his ideology of big government, and the financial socialization of America. 

The problem is, Obama seems to view himself as possessing better judgement that the American people.  He seems to believe that we exist to be the lab rats in his experiments to turn the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave into just another country practicing a failed socialist ideology.

He also seems to be a firm believer in the Malcolm X quote:

By any means necessary.

As exemplified by actions of the Lame Duck Congress, Obama and his minions are doubling-down on their Alisnky-inspired plans, doing as much damage to the country as they can before someone actually stands up like the wizards in the Lord of the Rings and says:

Thou shalt not pass!

Republicans of the 112th Congress, I’m speaking to you.  You had better grow a collective spine and show Americans that you understand what happened on November 2nd, 2010.  If you decide that you are going to act in your own self-interests, instead of acting in accordance with the mandate given to you with the Midterm Election, then, come 2013, you had better have a trade to fall back on.