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Proton-M Rocket Carrying Russia's Most Advanced Satellite Crashes
schwit1 (797399) writes "When it rains it pours: A Russian Proton rocket crashed Friday nine minutes after launch. Considering the tensions between the U.S. and Russia over space, combined with the increasing competition for the launch market created by SpaceX's lower prices, another Proton failure now is something the Russians could do without. Moreover, the Russians were planning a lot of Proton launches in the next few months to catch up from last year's launch failure. Many of these scheduled launches were commercial and were going to earn them hard cash. This failure definitely hurts, and will certainly be used as justification by their government in increase its control over that country's aging aerospace industry."
Nevermind that it's virtually identical to the plan that Romney implemented in his home state.
There's an important difference -- Romney signed legislation that the people of Massachusetts (a very liberal state) wanted. In the case of the ACA, the Democrats of Congress pushed it down the throats of an unwilling American public.
If you still think there's any meaningful difference between Democrats and Republicans, you're hopelessly ignorant of the world around you. Pull your head out of your ass, stop throwing your vote away, and support an independent or third party next time around.
I know the arguments for voting for a third party, and I also know the arguments against doing so. It's all very depressing.
Not one Republican in Congress has voted for any bill supported by Obama.
That's a silly thing to say, and it's obviously false. Obama has signed legislation for which Republicans voted.
That's more an indication of hyperpartisanship than merit of the legislation itself. The ACA was pushed down Republicans' throats, for sure. Americans in general, however, supported it to various extents.
According to polls, many Americans were opposed to the passage of the ACA; sometimes a majority. Some Americans liked the sound of the promises attached to it, and when it turned out later that Obama was just telling baldfaced lies about the ACA in order to get elected, people were disappointed. The "Republican/Tea Party wave" election of 2010 could be seen as a referendum on the popularity of the ACA, and it will be very interesting to see what happens this year.