The answer is no

"The question is, are we willing to be honest with ourselves and the American people and make these tough decisions?"

So says Cryin' George Voinovich, who says, " if you look at the extraordinary costs that we had with the war and homeland security and Katrina, the logical thing that one would think about is to ask for a temporary tax increase to pay for them."

Tell you what, George. I like your idea. We do need to be honest. We do need to be fiscally responsible. Let's just tweak it a bit: How's about a temporary spending cut? Nothing permanent, just a temporary thing to balance the books. Waddya say? Huh?