MAYBE SOME SIGN OF SPINE ON TERRORISM? – AT 7:44 A.M. ET:  Byron York, in the Washington Examiner, reports that some Republicans believe they're making progress in turning the Obamans into adults in the fight against terrorism:

On Capitol Hill, there's a war being fought over the War on Terror, and so far, Republicans are winning. Or at least they're winning the Battle of Miranda.

GOP lawmakers believe they are having some success in the effort to stiffen the spine of the Obama administration as it makes policy for dealing with captured terrorist suspects in the future. Even as the administration defends its decision to grant accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab the right to remain silent, the president himself is hinting that things might be done differently in the future.

"Should the practice of reading suspected terrorist their Miranda rights be reviewed?" CBS's Katie Couric asked President Obama during Sunday's Super Bowl interview.

"Absolutely," Obama answered. "Everything should be reviewed."

"It's important for us to recognize," Obama explained, "that when we're dealing with al Qaeda operatives, that they may have national security intelligence that we need, and it's important to make sure that the processes and procedures we approach with respect to these folks are not identical to the ones we would use if we were apprehending the local drug dealer."

Translation: Maybe we'll do it differently next time.

COMMENT:  We'll have to see.  There certainly will be a next time. 

Douglas MacArthur, lamenting America's military status toward the end of his life, lamented, "All the wrong men got promoted."  In Obama's world, all the wrong people got appointed, including Eric Holder and the Ivy League orchestra and chorus he brought to the Justice Department. 

If Obama is serious, and I have my doubts, he'll have to sit down with Holder and show the attorney general a chart of the government.  The president is at the top.  It's time Obama acted the part.

By the way, Katie Couric did a surprisingly good job in that interview.  Maybe she's starting to see that doing a fashion spread for a slick Manhattan magazine isn't the way to go.

February 9,  2010