it really is just a ratcheting system

Remember that illegal domestic propaganda campaign the Bush administration ran - funding military analysts to spread the administration's war message to the public while posting as non-affiliated, independent soruces? Looks like Mr. Obama's administration has been doing the same thing w.r.t health care, albeit on a smaller scale. (At least, it's smaller as far as we know.) I guess Cass Sunstein's influence - he wants the government to use domestic agents to secretly infiltrate online groups for propaganda purposes, all for Good Reasons, of course - is showing.