read your 2 posts and found them quite interesting.From your first post
"What the White House would do if BP refused..."the White House has the LEGAL AUTHORITY to create an escrow account"
from the second..the U.S.will handle damage claims"IF NECESSARY"."We have to get an independent claims process." Doesn't seem heavy-handed or dictatorial to me.

"Incrementalism"; you're getting used to ignoring law and procedure to gain a goal little by little by little ................