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Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA?
MarkWhittington writes "Has NASA become a problem for the Obama transition? If one believes a recent story in the Orlando Sentinel, the transition team at NASA, led by former NASA Associate Administrator Lori Garver, is running into some bureaucratic obstruction." Specifically, according to this article NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made calls to aerospace industry executives asking them to stonewall if asked about benefits to be gained by canceling the current US efforts to revisit the moon; we mentioned last month that cutting Aries and Orion is apparently an idea under strong consideration by the Obama transition team.
Well, it would have been nice to know. Then we could have voted one of the intelligent ones into office, instead of the son-of-AWOL retarded-chimp that landed there.
We're not a science country anymore. More Americans believe that Jesus rode his dinosaur to church with Adam and Eve than believe in cellular chemistry. So let's just end this farce once and for all.
I think your tin foil hat is on a little too tight today, even for you Ruby. NOLA & New York weren't destroyed by the Bush administration and unfortunately, there hasn't been any drilling in ANWR. The ones that are refusing to let the Detroit automakers from using money that's been allocated to them are Democrats. The $25 billion handout that was given to them before the $800+ billion TARP legislation was approved was earmarked for helping the automakers develop fuel efficient vehicles (similar to funding the Clinton administration supplied that *surprise* didn't result in any production vehicles). Pelosi and company don't want them use that money for normal operations fearing that they won't try to develop efficient vehicles. The Republicans don't want to give them more taxpayer funding to support an extremely bloated human resource liability that the Detroit automakers need to shed to remain completive. If they don't, they will be back begging for even more money.
I would love a Christmas earthquake that would send everything west of the SA fault into the Pacific though.
Look up the combined EU defense budget sometime (or NATO without the US). It's still bigger than all other contenders (except for US). As it is, Europe can defend itself from any possible threats - let's assume Russia, China and Iran, for simplicity sake - on its own well enough. EU military budget is several times larger than that of all those countries combined.
So, no, your assumption that the USA pays for European defense is quite false. US pays to have the biggest dick on the block for the sake of having one.
Since you're a Republican who wants to destroy millions of Americans because they live in California, of course you're lying about everything else so your Republican Congressional minority can destroy the economy along with Detroit.
The bill that your Republicans just filibustered to death with their Senate minority required that the $25B in fuel efficiency retooling be spent instead on just basic operations. But since you're a Republican, why not lie about that?
The "bloated human resource liability" that makes Detroit less competitive is #1: wasteful private healthcare that doesn't even protect workers' health and productivity. But you Republicans hate national healthcare like our competitor countries all have, because you're sick and evil - earthquakes aren't your only preferred method of killing American workers. The #2 bloated human resource liability is carmaker executives, like the Ford CEO who collected $50 million over the last two years for running his company into the ground. But you Republicans lose your minds shrieking when those rich people are asked to pay taxes on the system that protects their ripoffs - even when they die and it's no use to them any more.
The reason Clinton era giveaways for increasing vehicle fuel efficiency disappeared was because you Republicans had total control after Clinton was gone, which you used to subsidize gas guzzling trucks like SUVs (and the Republican Rolls Royce, the Hummer) with tax subsidies and deregulation. You people threw out the small gains made towards efficiency, which ruined the economics that stimulated consumers buying more efficient cars elsewhere, like in the foreign countries whose carmakers aren't about to croak.
The Republicans voted for another $TRILLION AND A HALF giveaway to bankers who robbed us blind. But this bill, which had all kinds of strings attached to force Detroit to find fuel efficiency and other marketable features now that the fake Republican economy has finally collapsed through all possible extra ropes, wasn't as important to you Republicans as a chance to smash the unions that protect workers from this kind of failure happening every day.
You Republicans can't do math. Just today the stock market lost more $BILLIONS in value than the amount of the blocked loans. Because your Republican senators refused to spend money that will be paid back at solid interest rates while saving jobs that when lost (now your fault) will cost hundreds of $BILLIONS, $TRILLIONS, or maybe even all we've got.
You can't do math. And you'd love an earthquake. Behold the awesome power of a fully dysfunctional Republican.
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The large majority disagreed with you, Anonymous Republican Coward. And since you get your news from only Rush Limbo, you evidently missed the part where Obama demonstrated his integrity by refusing Blagojevich's interest in bribes for assigning the seat - even though Obama's loaded with cash, and is the most powerful person in the world.
You Republicans are really stupid. No matter what happens, you just repeat whatever comes over your AM talkradio. Good thing next month you'll have the minimum power to keep destroying the country anymore. Because that's how the democracy you hate actually works.
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