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That is kind of a contradiction, isn’t it? He has decided to stay on as Egypt’s President, sending a small sign of the reform to come in the country’s government.
The top leadership body of Egypt's ruling party, including President Hosni Mubarak
and his son Gamal Mubarak, resigned Saturday in a new gesture apparently aimed at convincing anti-government protesters that the regime is serious about reform, according to state TV.
I’ll have more info as it becomes available.
Well hell, it has been an interesting week with the things that have been going on over in Egypt, and with Glenn Beck being his usual “ asshole “ self.
"While in Egypt, CNN’s Anderson Cooper was attacked and beaten, which raises 2 questions. Is it safe to send our media into these places? And how do we get Glenn Beck over there?"
"Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the internet. Listen, if you want people to stay home and do nothing, turn the internet back on."
"The big rumor: Sarah Palin said she may run for president. I understand there's an opening in Egypt."
"President Mubarak came out of the presidential palace today and saw his shadow; six more weeks of rock throwing."
"Secretary of state Hillary Clinton said regarding the crises in Egypt that the Obama administration is not advocating or working toward any specific outcome. Same policy they had during the economic crises. Just kind of go along and see what happens."
"Apparently something is going on over in Egypt. Anderson Cooper and his crew got attacked by pro-government forces. He got hit in the head about 10 times, and I think he got kicked in the Mini Cooper too."
"I've been watching a lot of the news footage, and it turns out they don't walk like Egyptians after all. They walk regular like us.
…got a little taste of protest on Friday as a few hundred Jordanians took to the streets in the capital city of Amman to demand political and economic reforms and to also show support for the anti-Mubarak government movement in Egypt.
Protesters from leftist groups and the Muslim Brotherhood marched from the prime minister's office to the Egyptian embassy on Friday, calling for change in their country.
Activists on Friday chanted "Down with the government" as they rallied outside the prime minister's office.
Protesters also expressed their support for Egyptians, calling on Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president, to step down and accused him of being a CIA agent.
"No to Arab regimes that have ties to the US and the West," they chanted outside the embassy in Cairo, and "no to Arab regimes that serve Israel's interests".
Activists also called prayed for all the Egyptians who had lost their lives during the protests against Mubarak.
Remember this?
19 days in, GOP leadership takes credit for job growth
It took less than three weeks for the new Republican Congressional leadership to claim credit for an apparent economic upturn.
Well, in light of today's jobs report, Republicans are doing their best to make you forget.
The drop in the unemployment rate last month wasn't enough, Republicans said Friday in reaction to the latest jobless numbers.
The GOP used the report showing that the unemployment rate had dropped to nine percent as a pretext for calling for new spending cuts, and attack President Obama's stimulus policies.
"Instead of more ‘stimulus’ spending and more debt, as the president proposed in his State of the Union address, we need less spending, more freedom, and more certainty for those in America who create jobs," House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement.
That's a load of crap. Not only have Republicans have done absolutely nothing to boost job creation since taking control of Congress, the only economic ideas they've proposed are making things worse.
The beginning and end of every Republican discussion about the economy is that we need to immediately reduce spending. Actually, the opposite is true. Since last February, there's been 1.3 million new private sector jobs. However during the same period there's been a loss of 255,000 government jobs at the local, state, and federal levels. (That doesn't include the Census hiring bubble -- since then, there's been a lost of 761,000 government jobs.)
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that cutting government employment in the middle of an economic recovery is a bad idea. If you're trying to put people to work, putting them out of work is idiotic. But that's the Republican agenda, and as long as they get their way, economic recovery is going to take far longer than it should.
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