fifth of our entire economy today. bill: that s republican paul ryan releasing that on his medicare plan, part two of his spear he s, after a special election putting a republican strong hold in the state of new york into the hands of a democratic congresswoman. some are suggesting medicare is the reason. kathleen hokle, winning a congressional seat held by republicans for more than 40 years, also a tea party candidate in that race, jack davis, got 9 percent of the vote. dana per perino, white house press secretary, former, and fox news contributor currently. how you doing dana, good morning to you. pick up any newspaper, website, they re writing about a ref r-pbdum. let s unpack this a little bit. the tea party candidate who got 9 percent of the vote really wasn t a tea party person. he was a democrat who had run several times before, kind after spoiler in the race. bill a lot of money, too. sure. there are a lot of blessings lessons in this. one, if you re a congressman, don t
right now is egypt. what we wouldn t want to have happen is dictatorship replaced by democracy and dictatorship again. there are positive signs in egypt. when i say it s a pivotal country because it s histor historically such an important country in the middle east and trend setting country. this coming weekend, we ll see a ref r referendum in egypt on the new egyptian constitution and for the first time, will have a president term limited. there are steps in the right directions. we need to think of ways to channel the popular will expressed in the middle east in the democratic direction. you saw what happened when they had someone that went out to tahrir square and said they did a great thing and will control it ourselves. they kept the guy from google off the stage there. they showed there s enormous