The response is a mixed bag. I'm grateful that the President thinks it's a bad idea to have the military patrol our streets, particularly on days when a bunch of men who look and act like the military are cracking down on First Amendment activities.

But at the same time, one of the Administration's complaints here is that Congress wants to impose a definition of detainee on them, when they've had OLC do so already in secret. Given that the latter is probably more expansive, it seems that may be why they want to keep it that way.

So it's a stance against the increasing militarization of the courts. But a squishy self-serving one.

Liberals mocked a provision blocking Obama administration efforts to prod schools to put healthier foods on their lunch menus, including a proposal to no longer consider the tomato paste on pizza to be a vegetable

Beyond the fact that this is in Defense Bill, beyond the laughable notion that pizza is a vegetable, tomatoes are fruit. Yet the the frozen pizza lobby got them classified as a vegetable.  Unbelievable.

Reacting to that criticism, House Republicans had urged USDA to rewrite the standards in a bill passed in June. The Senate last month voted to block the potato limits in its version, with opposition to the restrictions led by potato-growing states. Neither version of the bill included the latest provisions on tomato paste, sodium or whole grains; House and Senate negotiators added those in the last two weeks as they put finishing touches on the legislation.

Back in the day they didn't care, now they care, but the results are the same because somehow special interest are so powerful they can alter the meaning of words and get their legislation attached to other legislation.