Here, you get a feeling of intimidation. they re big. they re wearing really top-line riot equipment. they re all carrying weapons of some sort or another, be it shotguns, rifles or a lot of tear gas, and not only that, but they re in very big numbers and very new vehicles. we saw the other night hundreds of gmc-type, suburban type vehicles, large, new, black, all flashing lights. many police coming out of them, well equipped and well organized. it s a completely different force than we saw in egypt. this is, you night say in some ways, a mercenary type force, anderson. and nic, the face they show in washington is very polished, very nice in suits. how difficult are they making life on the ground for reporters trying to document what is happening there?
Force it through. one thing to keep in mind, and i agree that scott brown s election is in this sense, good news for the democrats, but one that s a separate issue. there aren t republican votes for bills in part because the republicans who would have voted for the bills were defeated by democrats in 2006 and 2008. if you reduce the democratic feature a 40-vote rump in the september and then brought in a republican president with a sweeping ambitious domestic agenda, you wouldn t have we don t have moderate republicans anymore. they are an extinct species. the two parties are now ideological i think arianna is right. the left/right construct is artificial. i think too much of it is the establishment media. for example, this whole what do you mean the left wing/right wing construct we have points of view in the nation which i night say could be in all kinds of places. but we need we need they could be in mother jones. they could be in dissent.