Here's everything you need to know about President Bush's new Medicaid advisory panel:

The commission will have up to 15 voting members and 18 nonvoting members. The voting members will all be appointed by Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services. Mr. Leavitt rejected bipartisan Congressional pleas for an independent commission under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences. [Emph added]

You know, at a certain point, all the "changing the tone" humor just stops being funny -- and all your left with is the growing suspicion that cleaning up this administration's mess may well end up being the life's work of an entire generation of Americans.