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Hosni Mubarak surprised everybody when he said that he was sticking around until September. Charles Krauthammer predicts that once the mosques adjourn in Cairo later today, there are going to be a lot of very angry Egyptians who are not to going to accept Mr. Mubarak’s decision.

You want to cause a revolution? Raise expectations and then disappoint those whose expectations you raised.

House Republican leaders promised in their pledge to America to cut $100 billion from domestic discretionary non-defense spending. They then tried to explain to their newly elected revolutionaries that they had to prorate those budget cuts to account for the fact that close to half the budget year was done.

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