Obama's Space Plan — a Conservative Argument

MarkWhittington writes "The Obama space proposal, which seeks to enable a commercial space industry for transportation to and from low Earth orbit while it cancels space exploration beyond LEO, has sparked a kind of civil war among conservatives. Some conservatives hate the proposal because of the retreat from the high frontier and even go so far as to cast doubt on the commercial space aspects. Other conservatives like the commercial space part of the Obama policy and tend to gloss over the cancellation of space exploration or even denigrate the Constellation program as 'unworkable' or 'unsustainable.'"

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[kaoshin]

"one that touts limited government and the empowerment of the private sector, the other that touts national security and national greatness as virtues as well."

I think it is naive to suggest that Obama's space plan started this "civil war". In case you have been living under a rock, there has been an ongoing disagreement between conservatives and the virtuous neoconservatives and their ambitions for national greatness.

err, Re:Types of liberals

[Anonymous Coward]

There are liberals that do that. They'd be among those that have retained my respect. Sometimes they even manage to change my righty-conservative mind about things.

Then there are those liberals who only know how to attack anybody who disagrees with them. They do not concede that anybody can honestly and intelligently hold contrary views: people with opinions they don't like are liars, stupid, or both. And they will never allow such a person the label "liberal", no matter how many liberal opinions they have — at best they're "liberal in name only." Our own./random [slashdot.org] is a prime example.

From where I stand, this second kind pretty much dominates liberal political groups and media right now.