First hundred hours.

Sounds like Obama's plans for Guantanamo Bay go beyond the 120 day suspension.

White House Counsel Greg Craig went to Capitol Hill today to brief members of Congress about the three executive orders President Obama will sign tomorrow.

According to a former Hill aide, the orders will:

∙ close the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay within a year and establish a process by which the U.S. government figures out what to do with the remaining detainees;
∙ establish new rules on interrogation methods moving forward;
∙ establish new guidelines for the treatment of detainees moving forward.

Taking a page out of Pelosi's 2006 playbook, it sounds like the new administration will hit the ground running. While he certainly won't be able to achieve as much as the 110th Congress did in the same time frame, his efforts so far have impressed both supporters and detractors.

However, to step back for a moment: President Obama is drawing praise not for doing anything politically risky or innovative. What he is drawing praise for is his decision to do what is right.

That's a depressing thought -- to think that we, as a nation, are so far gone that living up to our moral, ethical, and humanistic standards is now worthy of high praise.

We've got a long way to go. Let's hope that today is the first of many steps in the right direction.

(Oh, and Chief Justice Roberts? Sorry, but the only person that gets to end sentences with the word "faithfully" is Steve Perry.)