Going Rogue With Mr. Wet

This, my friends, is otherwise known as "not even bothering to pretend anymore":

With Congress officially on recess, President Obama will on Wednesday use his ability to make recess appointments to name one of his more controversial nominees: Donald Berwick, nominee to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Who is Donald Berwick?  Does this answer your question?:

Dudes, no man that gets a hardon from thinking about the glorious British National Health Service should merit a job cleaning tongue depressors, much less running Medicare and Medicaid.  And apparently, even a Senate as lopsidedly Donk as this one was curling its toes at the prospect of confirmation hearings on a health care appointment with the public ObamaCare repeal cry reaching 60% in the polls, much less a Marxian fanboy douchbag whose idea of discretion is drooling uncontrollably at nude photographs of Clement Attlee:

Senators have expressed concerns about statements like these, as well as Mr. Berwick’s background. He is a nominee with little management experience poised to head the second largest insurer on the planet, an agency with more funding to disperse than all but the top fifteen economies in the world. In fact, the White House’s decision to make this recess appointment is as much a demonstration of their unwillingness to have any debate about Mr. Berwick’s views occur in the public eye as it is of their concern that some in their own party have privately questioned whether he is outside the mainstream.

Yes, you read that correctly: The same bunch who left the mainstream parsecs behind with the ObamaCare cramdown are calling Mr. Wet "out of the mainstream".  In fact, "some" of them are starting to sound like Republicans did four months ago - scared (for the right reasons):

"I'm troubled that, rather than going through the standard nomination process, Dr. Berwick was recess appointed.  Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power and protects Montanans and all Americans by ensuring that crucial questions are asked of the nominee and answered."

So wrote Montana Donk and Senate ObamaCare architect Max Baucus, who all of a sudden has rediscovered the Constitution as something other than a package of feminine napkins when his "some kind of a god" has taken to usurping the Pelosi/Reid Politburo's power.

Or maybe not.  Nobody can convince me that there wouldn't be a majority in favor of Berwick's confirmation in ordinary political circumstances.  These are the same people who shoved O-Care down our throats, remember?  They'd gleefully do the same with a guy who actually said, "Cynics beware, I am romantic about the (British) National Health Service; I love it."  It'd be the the popped cherry on that middle finger sundae.

Any time, that is, other than when staring at the Death Wave....

....so it behooves them to pose as "troubled" and "concerned" at Red Barry's latest egregious arrogation of quasi dictatorial power in not even bothering to go through the motions of a rubber stamp confirmation, even as it serves their tactical political purposes.

But even then, the Li'l Castro just couldn't leave well enough alone:

The White House claims this act is in response to “Washington game-playing”, accusing Republicans of planning to “stall the nomination” as long as possible. This is nothing more than a baldfaced lie. Republicans cannot stall this nomination — it is impossible for them to do so under Senate rules — as not one hearing has been called or scheduled. Even the New York Times doesn’t buy the White House’s explanation, reporting: “The recess appointment was somewhat unusual because the Senate is in recess for less than two weeks and senators were still waiting for Dr. Berwick to submit responses to some of their requests for information.”

In truth, it is the White House that is playing games with the health policy of the nation and the welfare of the American people. In bypassing the traditional process through which the Senate advises and consents to nominees, President Obama is preventing Senators and the people they represent from obtaining any answers from Mr. Berwick, who has repeatedly made claims and statements that raise numerous questions about his suitability for this critical position.

The game is called "Keep Away".  Comrade Hussein wants his fellow Marxist-Alinskyist to run Medicare and Medicaid, and he considers himself above submitting his choice to anybody else's permission, even members of his own party.  And he's put them in such a politically vulnerable pickle by bulldozing them to pass ObamaCare into the teeth of an electoral hypercane that they're more than happy to kick away their constitutionally mandated (right, Max?) oversight authority to avoid getting any of Berwick's bodily fluids on them.

A perfect storm, indeed - but one that will definitely suffer a deep impact in just four short months.