The creep heading for Baden Baden!
by Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Hosni Mubarak is hanging on to his presidency with a death grip, making every proverbial concession he can think of without actually doing what the people of Egypt want him to do -- step down entirely. He has fired his cabinet, appointed a new one, deployed the army, killed the internet, detained journalists and resigned from the top position in the ruling party -- all futile efforts to quell the protests. His latest efforts: Mubarak set up a committee today to propose constitutional amendments that would impose presidential term limits -- a real ironic Bloomberg move, after Mubarak's 30-year reign -- and relax eligibility requirements for candidacy. Amid this announcement, the Obama Administration continued in its typically ginger fashion and said it supports a slow transition out, rather than an outright resignation.
