As Gordon Brown bonds with George Bush at Camp David - this includes a joyride in a golf buggy - rightwing bloggers are cock-a-hoop at the prime minister's statements that he wants to maintain a strong relationship with the US.
UNCoRRelated approvingly quotes Mr Brown's remark that the world owes the US a debt for its leadership in the fight against international terrorism.
"Would any Democrat say that of their own country or their own military?" this blogger asks rhetorically.
Power Line is similarly delighted that Mr Brown apparently will stand by Mr Bush, despite media speculation of a cooling in the special relationship. Picking up on Mr Brown's remark that he intends to strengthen UK-US relations, Power Line says: "Seems the Brits have a spine after all. Thank goodness."
But that's not how things are seen in the more rarefied world of the thinktanks. Robin Niblett, the director of Chatham House in London, argues that Britain will move closer to the EU because they have more in common.
"UK positions on most global issues and foreign policy challenges tend to conform more closely to the dominant EU line than to the United States. On balance, the UK might think about European integration more from a US than from a European perspective, but it now thinks about global problems more from a European than from a US or transatlantic perspective."
Like a good guest, Mr Brown has gone out of his way to accentuate what binds Britain to the US, so the prime minister has talked a lot about Darfur rather than Iraq. We should not forget that close military and intelligence ties lie at the foundation of the special relationship.
Only last week, Britain agreed to allow the US to upgrade the Menwith Hill airbase in Yorkshire as part of America's proposed missile defence system. It is in also Britain's interest to keep the US on side because America is needed not just for the "global war on terror", but in other battles; notably, the fight against climate change.
The real test of where Mr Brown stands will come, as Julian Borger, the Guardian's diplomatic editor, noted recently, if the US strikes Iran. Should that scenario come about, we will know soon enough whether Mr Brown intends to stick to Mr Bush like glue or whether he follows in the footsteps of Harold Wilson, who told LBJ that he would not send British troops to Vietnam.
