As we draw closer to November’s midterm elections, some voters are beginning to express their optimism about the chances of sending a fiscally responsible majority to Washington. In the 2008 Presidential election, Americans begged for a change from the business-as-usual mentally that plagued the nation’s Capitol. We yearned for accountability. We yearned for restraint. We yearned for sanity. So many of us voted for what we thought was a return to less spending, lower taxes and more economic prosperity. Instead we got more of the same — more reckless spending, more fraudulent waste, more burdensome regulations, more government in general. Two years later, we hope that things will be different. This time, we expect that those who use the guise of fiscal conservatism will truly practice what they preach. But, if history has taught us anything, then we should recognize that what Americans can really expect out of their candidates is more of the same.