Local King Wishes to Remain King

“King Abdullah II of Jordan fired his government in a surprise move on Tuesday, in the face of a wave of demands of public accountability sweeping the Arab world and bringing throngs of demonstrators in the streets of Egypt…. Meanwhile, also in response to the mood sweeping the region, in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority announced it would hold local elections, postponed last year, ‘as soon as possible.’”
 — You would have to know a whole lot more than I (or most other Americans) do about Jordanian politics to know what this means, but you know, it happened.