I was aware that Obama and Rahm Emanuel spoke about this a lot on the campaign and they both stopped talking about it around election time. What surprises me though is the fact that they are not even attempting to come up with some sort of bullshit excuse or explanation for this. Obama has been surprisingly up front about all of his terrible decisions and lies and it doesn't make sense to try to sneakily pass this without any sort of propaganda to go along with it. Once this passes and this commission gets underway, I really don't see anyway they could explain themselves to the mainstream media if they ever pick up on it. Without sounding like total fascists, that is.