THE UR AND THE GOP VS THE LEFT:

Detainee Stance Represents Political Gamble for Obama (EVAN PEREZ and NAFTALI BENDAVID, 5/19/09, WSJ)

President Barack Obama's decision to adopt many Bush administration national-security tactics--albeit with new legal trappings--could turn into a political coup by bringing him Republican support. Or it could produce a political mess by alienating liberals who favor a more complete break from the Bush era.

That is the gamble Mr. Obama has taken as he pushes restart the military commission trials established by President George W. Bush, while closing the prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Already, Democrats in Congress are wrestling with the White House by threatening to withhold funding from the administration's move to close Guantanamo.