I beg your pardon. But since you apparently take the "Bush-era totalitarian mindset" and the machinations of "FANATICAL warmongering Republicans" sine grano salis, I assumed that you were referencing the alleged "first night" law in the same utterly unskeptical way.

My bad.

P.S. Here's something to consider: the Iraq War and things like the Patriot Act were dubious ideas, but at the same time there were essentially rational justifications for both of them. (For example, the US was attacked on 9/11 by foreign nationals residing legally in America, and lack of information-sharing between the FBI and CIA may have been a factor that contributed to the success of the attack -- so the Patriot Act, even if over-broad and perhaps a "slippery slope", contained provisions responding to both of these real-life problems.) Of course, "rational" does not mean "a good idea in hindsight"!

P.P.S. There is also the famous dictum "Hanlon's Razor" -- "Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, ignorance, or simply faulty analysis of facts."