can t drop you or deny you coverage, that you have basic preventative care that keeps you healthy, instead of just accessing the health care system when you re sick. that s going to bring down costs right there because people will have access to coverage who didn t have it before. jonathan, this is exactly what you were hoping to hear from consumer said when you were helping design this law, and presumably, what you heard a lot of in massachusetts when that law got up and running, but michael isn t exactly who this law was designed to help. he already had health insurance and could already afford it. he doesn t need a federal subsidy, which makes the application process more complicated and the approval process more complicated. where does the process stand tonight for those types of customers? it s still early. the relevant deadline for this is march 31st.
thank you for being here. michael, i want to start with you, to take a step back for a mom, can you walk viewers through muslim brotherhood, who they are and sort of where they came from in terms of this development. this is an old organization, nothing new. around for 80 years, gone through varsitierations. at one point used violence as a political tool, they eventually renounced violence and slowly came to accept the idea of democracy at least in the form of electoral democracy and participating. that was in the 1980s. they participated in parliament rice under contained framework under the mubarak regime. eventually when mubarak fell they were the most organized political source in society and took advantage of the opportunity and won a series of elections in an immediate post
michael isn t that the point, the u.s. administration, not just this one but all of them, have always looked at egypt through the lens of real politic, what are our strategic interests and how can we make that fit in. if it s a dictator, we ll work with that. doesn t the u.s. noticed to change the way it s approaching each other. i think it s right to look at the continuities even post mubarak. it hasn t changed very much despite utter turmoil and tumult in the region. that s true. i think the essential flaw there is the assumption that repression this is a flaw in the thinking of egyptians as well, repression can breed some form of stability. that repressive stability is gone. i m not quite as optimistic as mona about the prospects for democratization, i worried about its rootedness in the society. talk about that a little bit. this is a country that hasn t had the fundamentals to choose its leaders, it was imposed. they are living every day lives.
plan would raise taxes on millions of american families buzz he doesn t seem interested in the discussion. this time around, it looks like mitt romney isn t interested in the discussion himself. meanwhile, still no republican love for a middle class tax cut in congress. today, house republicans defeated a one-year extension of middle class tax cuts. this is the same bill that democrats passed in the senate and that president obama would gladly sign into law. you can bet president obama will highlight republican intransigence all the way to election day. the president got good news on that front today. he s leading mitt romney in three key battleground states by healthy margins. in ohio, president obama leads romney by six points and he s hit the 50% mark. even in florida, generally considered a tougher state for the president, he leads by six points, 51% to 45%. and in pennsylvania, president obama leads by double digits. all three polls were of likely voters. get your cell phones out.
november, objective third-party analysis showed governor perry s plan would raise taxes on millions of american families but he doesn t seem interested in the discussion. this time around, it looks like mitt romney isn t interested in the discussion himself. meanwhile, there s still no republican love for a middle class tax cut in congress. today house republicans defeated a one-year extension of middle class tax cuts. this is the same bill that democrats passed in the senate and that president obama would gladly sign into law. you can bet president obama will highlight republican intransigence all the way to election day. the president got some good news on that front today. he s leading mitt romney in three key battleground states by healthy margins. in ohio, president obama leads romney by six points and he s hit the 50% mark. even in florida, generally considered a tougher state for the president, he leads by six points, 51% to 45%. and in pennsylvania, president obama leads by dou