elpa install failed

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

I tried installing elpa on wheezy emacs and the install failed.  It 
appears the control-j key when pressed after the piece of code is put into 
the scratch buffer and the cursor is positioned just after the last right 
parenthesis does nothing.  Was this some kind of security fix put into the 
debian flavor of emacs?  According to standard emacs documentation 
control-j at the end of a code block is supposed to evaluate the code and 
take action as instructed by that code.  I got the code I used off the 
elpa home page site and used a cut and paste operation to save it to a 
file first.  
cut here.
(let ((buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously
               "http://tromey.com/elpa/package-install.el";)))
  (save-excursion
    (set-buffer buffer)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (re-search-forward "^$" nil 'move)
    (eval-region (point) (point-max))
    (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
cut 
here.
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