Impressive.

Before the new GOP-led House has figured out where the soda machines are, The White House has pre-emptively surrendered to them:

The Obama administration, reversing course, will revise a Medicare regulation to delete references to end-of-life planning as part of the annual physical examinations covered under the new health care law, administration officials said Tuesday.

And why not? Doctors liked the regulation. Patients liked the regulation.  Obviously wringing it's hands over whether it's overwhelming popularity along with it's incredible usefulness and benefit to humanity were enough to throw it under the bus for no apparent reason, I'm guessing somebody reminded the administration that an added benefit to scuttling the regulation would be to reward Sarah Palin for completely making things up to scare people into thinking Obama is a Muslim looking to kill their grandmothers, and BINGO!, away we go. Even for this gang, the willfull impotency is pretty remarkable. Kudos!