Comments on: Palazzo to chair House science committee’s space subcommittee http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338433 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:26:07 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338433 Rohrbacher is a RINO, on thin ice with the GOP core. The Tea Party wouldn’t stand for it.

From what planet are you posting this?

]]> By: amightywind http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338359 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:57:34 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338359 It’s kind of sad that Dana not only didn’t get the committee chairmanship, but the subcommittee chairmanship went to a freshman congressman.

Rohrbacher is a RINO, on thin ice with the GOP core. The Tea Party wouldn’t stand for it.

]]> By: Justin Kugler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338330 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:09:02 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338330 I had the exact same thought, Jon.

]]> By: Robert G. Oler http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338327 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:23:03 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338327 All things being equal inertia wins out in these committees and had NASA a well managed and well performing program to implement Bush’s “vision” (almost to kind a word) …Cx would have continued.

The problem is however that all things are not being equal. Cx is floundering/overbudget, there is no money for tossing more money at the problem and there is no political support for tossing more money…worse for NASA while they are underperforming the private sector is starting to perform and for a reasonable price.

It is going to take a little finness but Charlie seems up for it and things are moving along quite nicely.

Before long we will hear one of two things.

1. There is no money for a heavy lift as the NASA budget declines.

2. If there is the money the only version of an HLV that can be done is something that says goodbye to shuttle legacy hardware…and we need to bid that out commercially.

or some combination of the two.

But in any respect the notion of a SD heavy lift…is “dead”

Long Live The Republic

Robert G. Oler

]]> By: Ben Russell-Gough http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338326 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:48:59 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338326 @ Coastal Ron, James T.,

We Brits have a saying: “How do you know when a politician is lying? His mouth is moving and noises are coming out.”

]]> By: Jonathan Goff http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338318 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:01:34 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338318 James,
Even Shelby could be mistaken for a free-marketeer if you actually believed his rhetoric (and hadn’t seen his actions). It’s kind of sad that Dana not only didn’t get the committee chairmanship, but the subcommittee chairmanship went to a freshman congressman.

~Jon

]]> By: James T http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338309 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:14:21 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338309 Palazzo’s campaign website doesn’t even mention space under “issues”. But under “Jobs” he does say:

Real job growth is jobs that are created not through buoyed government spending or pork barrel projects, but instead jobs created through expanding businesses reaping the benefits of free market principles.

Let’s see if he eats those words… with a side of pork.

]]> By: Coastal Ron http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/01/20/palazzo-to-chair-house-science-committees-space-subcommittee/#comment-338304 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:35:44 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=4320#comment-338304 Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) said “South Mississippi is home to many NASA assets, but I will work with my colleagues from all NASA-impacted states to help shape the future of space policy”

In other words, he will make decisions based on how NASA impacts the committee’s congressional districts, instead of for the good of the nation. That’s pork you can believe in… :-(

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