[livius]

...someplace in their compromise bill will be a clause or section to allow what they could not legislatively get to be imposed bureaucratically.

A very good point. That seems to be his approach with everything, essentially using Congress and the offices supervised by it - Cabinet positions, for example - just for show, while at the same time having his czars enact things through bureaucratic magic that is outside of anybody's oversight (or even sight, most of the time).

[stayathomemom]

...someplace in their compromise bill will be a clause or section to allow what they could not legislatively get to be imposed bureaucratically.

Weren't these panels created in the TARP bill, or did I misread something?