The Ratchet Effect

This is something I had intended to post last March. In an election season that's heating up, I think it remains relevant.

IOZ, "The Ratchet Effect":

Considered historically, it will become clear that the job of Republican governments is to invent novel, ad hoc expansions of state power, while the job of Democratic governments is to consolidate and systematize them. Far from repudiating supposed Bush-era "excesses," the Obama regime has sought -- usually successfully -- to entrench and to codify them.

This is in response to a Salon piece on the Bradley Manning WikiLeaks case.

A disappointing and disturbing reversal of the Obama administration.