Lap-dogging has begun.

Charlie Savage, of the New York Times, clues us in on how Obama's War on Terror policy isn't so different from W. Bush's.

During her confirmation hearing last week, Elena Kagan, the nominee for solicitor general, said that someone suspected of helping finance Al Qaeda should be subject to battlefield law — indefinite detention without a trial — even if he were captured in a place like the Philippines rather than in a physical battle zone.

Ms. Kagan’s support for an elastic interpretation of the “battlefield” amplified remarks that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. made at his own confirmation hearing. And it dovetailed with a core Bush position. Civil liberties groups argue that people captured away from combat zones should go to prison only after trials.

As a voter who drank the Obama Kool-Aid, I'm disappointed but not surprised. Democratic Presidents always hold center in office. Republicans, especially in recent decades, go off the deep end.