Reason’s Jacob Sullum wades in:

DeLay is no more serious about fiscal responsibility than Shelley Moore Capito [a Republican representative from West Virginia]. 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.

Ouch.

Read the whole thing.

As Ronald Reagan might have said, Tom DeLay is not a solution to our problem, Tom DeLay is the problem.