Leaders Who Won't Choose - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com

Leaders Who Won't Choose - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com: "Adversity builds character,' goes the old adage. Except that in America today we seem to be following the opposite principle. The worse things get, the more frivolous our response. President Bush explains that he will spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding the Gulf Coast without raising any new revenues. Republican leader Tom DeLay declines any spending cuts because 'there is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.'"