I’m betting this is the kind of thing he liked so much… (h/t geoffb and IP. Whose DEATH THREAT I find entirely unhelpful as a way to begin the new year….)

Robert Romano, ALG: “Death panels” received renewed interest over the Christmas season in a New York Times piece by Robert Pear, “Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir.” The story outlines a new 691-page regulation that to puts into place end-of-life counseling, called “advanced care planning,” via the Medicare program. The regulation is provided for “in the case where an injury or illness causes the individual to be unable

…The New York Times evidently forgot to add, “no more baldfaced lying” to their own list of New Year’s determinations. Not that I expected otherwise. Just like pointing it out, is all. (Or, you know: linking to someone who has pointed it out. Tomato, tomahto.)

So tell me: 1. What are your resolutions for the new year? And — 2. What do you want to see the new Congress do, in what order, why, and how should they best go about it?