Token Changes

To cover the fact that Obama's policies are the same as Bush's. [Link]

A few days back (see here and here), I discussed President Obama's charade on military commissions: He is adopting the Bush commission system essentially as is, but will make a handful of inconsequential tweaks in order to create the illusion of real change. It won't work: say what you will about the ACLU and the rest of the antiwar Left, but they are already seeing this fraud for what it is. Still, the fawning Obamedia will go along with the program.

And so will top Democrats. On that note, I'd recommend the entirety of former Speaker Newt Gingrich's spanking of Sen. Dick Durbin (D, IL), a key Obama ally, on Meet the Press yesterday. (To his credit, NBC's David Gregory was well prepared and extremely fair as the moderator — and he further allowed Rich make some great points during the journalists's panel he (Gregory) moderated in the second half of the show.) But for present purposes, I want to highlight Durbin's specious commentary on military commissions:

Lots of details of apparent change.