Comments on: Four races to watch tonight

By: Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:49:31 +0000

Well, it turns out that there was another race to watch for space enthusiasts, and it's great news. Jim Oberstar lost his election yesterday.

By: MichaelC

MichaelC — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:30:51 +0000

â€œShould we take the money saved from Afghanistan and give it to NASA?â€

You know I did not say that. Are you supposed to be some kind of journalist?
If so, you have alot to learn about putting words in peoples mouths. I would not touch you if I was an editor.

By: Bennett

Bennett — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:43:45 +0000

But I would have said that she is soft on wasteful government paper rockets.

Which Windy would not have said, under any circumstances. Because CxP is the stuff of legends, but not of reality.

By: Byeman

Byeman — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:41:13 +0000

“People who do not understand that the military industrial complex”

Include you as one of them, NASA is part of it.

By: red

red — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:56:37 +0000

Hey, I agree with amightywind on this one:

“Giffords is ripe for upset.”

But I would have said that she is soft on wasteful government paper rockets.

By: Vladislaw

Vladislaw — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:25:26 +0000

Looks like Rubio and Adams are the winners in Florida, I do not see them as strong space supporters who are going to say “let’s take that war money from Iraq and Pipelinestan and shift it over to NASA”

By: Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:33:34 +0000

Not a false choice. It is a choice.

Not in the real world. In the world, no one is going to seriously ask, “Should we take the money saved from Afghanistan and give it to NASA?” Everyone sensible knows that there are much more pressing priorities.

By: MichaelC

MichaelC — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:24:30 +0000

“Even ignoring the foolishness of that false choice, when NASA gets the money a lot more is spent on corporate welfare than space ships, as exemplified by Constellation.”

Not a false choice. It is a choice. It would be foolish not acknowledge it and instead say it is not “real.”

Ike the republican warned us- and you are the proof he was right.
People who do not understand that the military industrial complex is a massive taxpayer hole and instead buy the whole “be very afraid scam” are the fools.

By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:19:47 +0000

Mark R. Whittington wrote @ November 2nd, 2010 at 11:35 am

I trust Oler voted for a minor party candidate or wrote someone in.

…

the later

Robert G. Oler

By: Rand Simberg

Rand Simberg — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:57:29 +0000

The reason I said we will have a bipartisan NASA appropriation bill is in general space has been bipartisan, itâ€™s more divided by the space lines.

That was before Barack Obama came out with a radical (in a good way, for once) change to the policy.