just going to repeat history. you know, mark twain used to say history doesn t repeat itself but it does tend to rhyme, unfortunately we re going to keep rhyming with what s already happened this year unless we change the pathway we are on and i think that requires a big vision of where we are so that we protect those programs that the american people love and not allow the tea party to just lump it all into the government. the people might not like the government, but they like almost every program in the government if it s explained to them. that s the president s job, he takes the bully pulpit, we win. ed markey of massachusetts, member of the house commerce and energy committee. always a pleasure to have you here, sir. thank you. thank you. the great state of new jersey just had its credit rating downgraded. will republicans in new jersey blame chris christie for that?
out there and then we will win, but if we sit on the sidelines, if we go small bore, then we are just going to repeat history. you know, mark twain used to say history doesn t repeat itself but it does tend to rhyme, unfortunately we re going to keep rhyming with what s already happened this year unless we change the pathway we are on and i think that requires a big vision of where we are so that we protect those programs that the american people love and not allow the tea party to just lump it all into the government. the people might not like the government, but they like almost every program in the government if it s explained to them. that s the president s job, he takes the bully pulpit, we win. ed markey of massachusetts, member of the house commerce and energy committee. always a pleasure to have you here, sir. thank you. thank you. the great state of new
it, so we have to fight, we have to get up, get activated, get out there and then we will win, but if we sit on the sidelines, if we go small bore, then we are just going to repeat history. you know, mark twain used to say history doesn t repeat itself but it does tend to rhyme, unfortunately we re going to keep rhyming with what s already happened this year unless we change the pathway we are on and i think that requires a big vision of where we are so that we protect those programs that the american people love and not allow the tea party to just lump it all into the government. the people might not like the government, but they like almost every program in the government if it s explained to them. that s the president s job, he takes the bully pulpit, we win. ed markey of massachusetts, member of the house commerce and energy committee. always a pleasure to have you here, sir. thank you. thank you. the great state of new
violence but there wasn t in tahrir square. we are lucky that mubarak had the good sense to finally leave. we are lucky we have in the army a respected institution, and we may yet get lucky that the secular we have got seven, eight months to go until the next election, sohe clock begins ticking right now for american policymakers and egyptians to start working with each other to figure out how you build on what you have achieved so far and have a genuine transition to democracy and not a regression to the old. look, i ll go with mark twain on this, i mean history doesn t repeat, it rhymes, this is not france in the 18th century, this is not lennon and it s not even
each other to figure out how you build on what you have achieved so far and have a genuine transition to democracy and not a regression to the old. look, i ll go with mark twain on this, i mean history doesn t repeat, it rhymes, this is not france in the 18th century, this is not lenin and it s not even tehran. i didn t ride in on a bale of hay yesterday on this, but the situations really are different. i don t believe the threat to egyptian democracy right now comes from the muslim brotherhood. yes, they have to be watched and no, they re not a genuinely or by definition democratic and with all due respect to the dni secular group.