How soon will President Romney undo Obama's nightmarish policies?

For roughly a year now, we've seen Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and (as they used to say on "Gilligan's Island") the rest criss-crossing the country, telling us how Barack Obama is the worst president ever and how they can't wait to repeal everything he's ever done since Jan. 20, 2009. If that's true, I hope they tackle this one first:

Flash forward to 2012. Obama, as president, has gone way beyond lockups and wiretaps. He says it's OK to order hits on American citizens for secret reasons, shielded from any judicial inquiry. When the ACLU sued the government in late 2010, trying to pry open some information about the reported hit list, Obama's lawyers invoked a "state secrets" defense and convinced a federal judge that the courts had no role to play. And when the ACLU and the New York Times recently filed Freedom of Information requests, hoping to obtain the legal memorandum that supposedly vets the hit program, Obama's lawyers said no, and stated: "We do not confirm or deny that such a memorandum exists."

So just imagine, for a moment, how Democrats would have reacted if Bush had ever pulled something like that. They would have stormed the MSNBC studios in high dudgeon. They would've inveighed against executive tyranny, the trampling of the courts, and the Corleone mentality of Bush capos secretively targeting their own citizens.

But since it's Obama who is doing it, Democrats are basically mute. Don't constitutional principles, and the importance of civil liberties, apply to whoever happens to be in power?

Yes, they do. What's even worse, as Dick Polman points out here, is that journalists haven't done their job and pressed Obama on this. But I also want to see reporters get a straight answer from Romney and Santorum on this. They've promised to undo all things Obama, and told voters that they loathe Big Government. So when do they roll back this abuse of the Constitution. The first 100 days? Or Day One?