Frankly, it's looking to me like the classic bait-n-switch con, or a political version of Good-Cop/Bad-Cop. The Republicans seem to be convinced that statism is, in fact, the answer to life's problems: it's just that the wrong people had been in charge for too long. Now that the right people are in charge, they hope to use the One Ring "for good." Well, it wouldn't work for Gandalf and it's surely not going to work for George II. When you get Frankenstein's monster in custody, you don't teach him to perform parlour tricks, YOU DESTROY HIM! Why? Because the monster's evil boss is lurking just around the corner ready to resume control at the first opportunity.
But the once and future Leviathon is not what I worry about most. The current administration has taken steps for the purposes of maintaining internal security that are a hair's breadth away from negating the Bill of Rights. So right now, the state is focused on Moslem terrorists and their friends. Anyone care to wager what a Democrat administration will do with these expanded police powers? Or are we really THAT naive?
George II has, probably with the best intentions, laid the foundation for a regime of political repression that will make us yearn for the good old days of Arkancide and the Politics of Personal Destruction.
Well, I'll be looking forward to meeting you all in the Gulag.