I literally laughed out loud when I heard Obama was hosting a “fiscal responsibility” summit. What a joke. He and his friends in Congress just spent more in one month than we’ve spent on the entire Iraq war, and now they want to talk about being fiscally responsible.

Well, they may be talking about it, but they sure as heck aren’t doing anything about it. Unless, well, hmm… let me think about that. Perhaps when Obama tells us he’s getting away from the “failed policies of the past” what he really means is the “failed dictionaries of the past.” Because, from the looks of things, the term “fiscally responsible” in his new-fangled dictionary is the exact opposite of what I think most of us have generally thought it to mean.

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Sigh. I realize that broken promises go with politicians like chocolate fudge goes with ice cream, but come on. It’s only been 25 days and seven promises from just this one speech have already gone by the wayside.

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This week has been so exhausting, I don’t even know where to start. I feel like I am watching the nation I love morph into something unrecognizable and it breaks my heart.

This is not the America I knew.

In the America I grew up in, no one was “too big to fail.” Tax cheats were not awarded with lucrative cabinet jobs. Presidents didn’t dishonor service men and women who gave their lives for this country by stopping the trial and dropping charges against known – admitted – terrorists. Presidents didn’t “abandon free market principles to save the free market” (what the #$%& does that even mean?).

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