In Egypt 39 Parties and They All Are a Problem

In Egypt President Morsi is starting to show his true colors. With his power grab being self evident to the Egyptian citizenry and with his government never having the true endorsement of the military no one knows where this will end.

Yesterday 39 of the forty major parties outside the Muslim Brotherhood spoke out against the newly formed government of Mr. Morsi. Thousands of protestors have stormed government buildings and yesterday three were killed and hundreds wounded as Morsi's followers used tanks and teargas to disperse or hold back the citizenry.

It should be noted as our friend Joe Scarborough did this morning that the Muslim Brotherhood stayed on the sidelines, primarily, during the street protests that led to Mubarek's ouster, that the Brotherhood promised they would not run for election, then promised not to take the Presidency, then promised to not limit constitutional powers of the people.

As I heard quoted last night with a nod to Roger Daltrey " Meet the new Pharaoh, Same as the old Pharaoh.

We do not know what will happen but we have to know the importance of Egypt and what happens there cannot be underestimated. We really can have little influence on the outcome, perhaps we should just make sure any actions we take speak to the freedom we claim to be so in favor of.