I'm glad to hear you can be placated with words.
Personally, I'm hearing it about the same now as I did before the election. Of course, how often we "hear" a phrase isn't really indicative of anything substantive. Governance is not about which phrases are uttered in public.
By the way I just noticed this thread: Dems to add billions to Iraq war bill
But at least you perceive yourself to be "hearing the phrase" 'fiscal responsibility' more often than you thought you were hearing it before 11/06!
While the voters were sending a message to the GOP, the lunatic Liberals think they won some sort of affirmation for their left-wing ideas that will lead to the destruction of our nation and policies that will leave us vulnerable to our enemies.
The last election was a repudiation of Republican politicians not being conservative enough not an affirmation of lunatics like Pelosi, Murtha, Kerry, and the rest of the anti-American crowd. The voters will turn on these idiots soon enough. Pelosi and her cohorts are hell bent on their acquisition of power while feeding their egos (evidenced by their thinking they're royalty) to realize that their anti-American, anti-military fringe policies won't pacify the American voter who are not Liberal.
I hear very little of that, and nothing on securing the borders of the United States. Nor do I hear anything about deporting those here illegally.
Now as for repealing abortion or at least stopping partial birth murder?
There is a whole slew of conservative measures these RINOs ignore cept at election time.