President Bush's Money For Space Cometh

citanon writes " The Washington Post reports that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has delivered, via the omnibus spending bill passed Nov. 20, the President's full budgetary request of $16.2 billion dollars for NASA as a part of his Vision for Space Exploration. Despite earlier reports that NASA's budget will be cut, DeLay, whose congressional district now includes the Johnson Space Center, was able to deliver the full budgetary request without any debate. NASA now has "enough money to forge ahead on a plan that would reshape U.S. space policy for decades to come." Despite this early victory, questions regarding the full cost of the program remain unresolved. It is also unclear whether the NASA bureaucracy will be able to rise to the challenges posed in the initiative and which current projects will suffer as a consequence."

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11:38

[snap-hiss]

Wow, it actually happened.

Re:No, really, you -shouldn't- have.

[Doc Ruby]

Stop pretending that "Conservatives" conserve anything. They're liars who promise "small government", then multiply its size to pay the corporations who bribe them into office. They're insane wasters, handing your taxes out in corporate welfare. Try picking someone for office based on their record, rather than whether they 1> call themself something catchy, 2> look like you or "someone you trust", or 3> get other politicians, media spokesmodels or corporate flacks to say how good a person they are.