What gall! What chutzpah! That John Kerry 'is calling on bickering Egyptian leaders and opposition politicians to forge a political consensus that will allow the country to emerge from economic crisis,' and that will allow Egypt to qualify for a $4.8 billion International Monetary Fund loan package, as well as the $1 billion that Obama pledged last April.

How dare our U.S. Secretary of State insist that other countries do what we no longer are able to do in our own country, forge a political consensus. How dare our administration continue to pledge millions and billions of dollars of aid to these countries when the U.S. appears to be in free fall itself, not only economically but in a myriad of ways.