"They can't stop us." Those are the words of President Barack Obama as he concluded his recent health care pep rally in Minneapolis. And he may be right. I believe that Mr. Obama and the Democrats will stop at nothing to push through their massive takeover of our precious health care and that includes using the nuclear option in the Senate.

Reconciliation is what it's called, and what it means is that debate on the healthcare bill will end after 20 hours. Then a vote will take place and just 51 votes will be needed to ram it through. Usually 60 votes are required to cut off debate on a given bill, then the roll call vote takes place. But Mr. Obama knows that he doesn't have 60 votes, so he'll do it any way he can. So when all is said and done, what will be the worst part of it all? Mr. Obama's death panels. That's right, I said, "death panels."

Let me share with you the facts that have convinced me that Mr. Obama will be setting up a panel that will decide just who gets what medical treatment, who gets which medicines and yes, whether the plug should be pulled on grandma.

It is Mr. Obama's own words and actions that have convinced me beyond a reasonable doubt—and if the mainstream press had an ounce of self respect left—we'd all know it.

In an interview with David Leonhardt of the New York Times which ran on April 28 of this year, Mr. Obama revealed himself. So much so that Ben Smith of Politico.com was prompted to write in an April 29 review of the Times piece that, "..in it Obama touches--in unusually personal terms--on one of the hardest-to-discuss realities of searching for healthcare savings: That many are to be found in end-of-life-care."

Indeed Mr. Obama actually brings up the question, "What do you do around things like end of life care?" It came up in the context of saving money. Mr. Obama talked about how he would have paid for his late grandmother’s hip replacement out of his own pocket, but expresses doubt over whether or not the state will pay for that in the future for someone who is already elderly and sick.

"So that's where I think you get into some very difficult moral issues," Obama added. Now, before I proceed, ask yourself when you have heard Mr. Obama tell the American people that we will need to tackle some difficult moral issues that will present themselves as a result of healthcare reform? Well he doesn't anymore, but read on.

Stunningly, Mr. Obama says, "I mean the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health care bill out here." Think about it folks, if we can just find a way to get rid of these leeches, we'd all be home free! Read on.

When Mr. Obama is then asked how we should deal with it, more of Mr. Obama the radical is exposed. "Well I think there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists." (Can you say death panel?) "And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place," he says. In sum, who is worth treating? Who is worth saving? Who shall live and who shall die? 

"It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels," says Mr. Obama. (We can't let the people have a say in this, they will be too emotional and want to help their parents and grandparents and spouses as much as possible.) "And that's part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance." Can you say death panel?

Now, maybe you still aren't convinced that this death panel is coming. After all, we are told that there is nothing like it in any of the healthcare bills. That may in fact be true. However, the panel is already in place and fully funded to the tune of $1.1 billion.

It's officially known as the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. As pointed out by Joseph Ashby in American Thinker, the funding was secured in the so-called Stimulus Bill and was cooked up by Tom Daschle. Mr. Daschle was the man who Mr. Obama had wanted to run the whole thing when he nominated him for Health and Human Services Secretary. Of course, he turned out to be a tax cheat, and didn't get the position, but it doesn't matter.

Betsy McCaughey, the former Lt. Governor of New York State, has been doing wonderful work in exposing what is really going on. She notes that the purpose for the creation of this Council is to allow the unelected to make the decisions on who gets what when it comes to end of  life health care because elected politicians will not have the "courage" to make these decisions.

This is exactly what Mr. Obama was talking about when he said to the N.Y. Times, "It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions through the normal political channels."

Ms. McCaughey also points out that Mr. Daschle's philosophy is that health care reform will not be "pain free" and that seniors should be more willing to live with their conditions instead of treating them.

Convinced yet? How can you not be? Now you may ask yourself how is it that you have never ever heard Mr. Obama asked about any of this? How is it that no one in the mainstream media has asked Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, about any of this at his daily press briefings?

The answer is that we no longer have an operational objective inquisitive media. But we will be having a death panel. In the words of Mr. Obama, "They can't stop us."