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Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget

Posted by kdawson on from the most-systems-go dept.

The AAAS's ScienceInsider confidently reports that NASA is in line to receive $1 billion more next year. Reader coop0030 sends this quote: "President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the Moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars... The president chose the new direction for the US human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion. NASA would receive an additional $1 billion in 2011 both to get the new launcher on track and to bolster the agency's fleet of robotic Earth-monitoring spacecraft."

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  1. Politics by Phroggy · · Score: -1, Troll

    President Obama asked Congress to fix our health care system, too. Look how well that's working out.

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    1. Re:Politics by Shakrai · · Score: -1, Troll

      No, he asked 60% of Congress to fix it. The other 40% doesn't get any input. That must be the "new kind" of politics he talked about. Partisanship in the opposition direction. Hooray for change!

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    2. Re:Politics by FatSean · · Score: 0, Troll

      Indeed. After McCain's douchey 'concession speech' in which he practically demanded that Obama act in a bipartisan manner, Obama tried too hard at bipartisanship. He should have known that the Republicans would never meet him half way. After several months of Democrats giving concessions to Republicans re: health care, and several months of the Republicans not giving concessions, it's about time the Democrats played politics the way the Republican-majority Congress did in the 90's and most of the 00's. No need to turn into total douches, but the Dems really need to stand up to the idiocy coming from the angry (fr)right(end) wing. What are these people so scared of anyway? :P

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    3. Re:Politics by Phroggy · · Score: 0, Troll

      Listen to Obama's speech; he clearly asked for bipartisan cooperation and collaboration. It's the Republicans who have been trying to kill the bill, not because they object to its content (although many of them do), but rather because the White House will count the passage of any bill as a political victory for the President, and the Republicans don't want to give him that victory.

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  2. Can't stop spending! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can't these d-bags stop even for one year? Jesus Christ, we're spending money we just don't have. Apparently Mr. Obama is not interested in a 2nd term.

  3. Re:I've seen too many web ads by gandhi_2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Welcome to the government by cult of personality. Like Kim Jung Ill, Stalin, Castro, and Mao you can't go anywhere in your country without your "benevolent dictator" looking down on his loving children.

    Those "Teabaggers" have it right.

    Obama Backs New Launcher
    Get your bigger budget now!

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  4. Re:Hopefully by moogied · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ah yes, the infamous 'vague political statement that has no sources.'

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  5. Re:Hopefully by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This just in: Americans see all taxes as fines on living. And then complain when they have incompetent bureaucracies, crappy roads and substandard schools. Greedy bastards.