James Carafano Heritage Foundation, Defense and Homeland Security :
Leave it to POLITICO to ask the pathetic Washington questions that ought to never be asked. Why should the president's supporters be angered that Obama's policies look like Bush if they are the right ones to keep us safe, free, and prosperous?
To be frank some Obama programs have started to look like Bush clones - because they work and are necessary. Keeping GITMO open; staying the course in Afghanistan and Iraq; and fighting global terrorism - are essential acts for winning the Long War. Only in Washington could anyone be upset that a president undertakes acts to keep us secure solely because they follow-on from the initiatives of a president from another party.