Forget the New Orleans Levees

The broken levees to worry about are the ones flooding us with red ink. Bush and DeLay may not have planted explosives under the levees in the Big Easy, but they're certainly undermining the ones holding back spending.

DeLay is no more serious about fiscal responsibility than Shelley Moore Capito. Like her, he cites the jobs created by federal spending as reason enough to support it (especially in his district)—a rationale that would justify paying people to dig holes and fill them in again. At least such a project would be preferable to digging holes deeper and deeper, which is the work of Congress.