If Not Mubarak, Then Who?

That's what folks on Capitol Hill are wondering, as documented in my latest, reported last week, published Monday (CQ, subscription required). With a few exceptions, it's been all around cautious approach to the crisis in Egypt in Congress. A lot of members frankly just don't know that much about the politics in the country, and there's been an absolute flood of briefings from various corners of the Washington, D.C. policy establishment to help them bone up!

Also, if you missed it, CQ's free site, Congress.org, posted the story on my conversation with Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations Pat Leahy (the guy who controls the purse strings for foreign aid) and how he thinks we should freeze aid to Egypt until "this gets settled."  What "settled" means is far, from clear, however.