– Shift more of NASA’s budget into technology R&D, focus on demonstrating key tech like orbital refueling, new propulsion, etc
– Expand the commercial crew and cargo programs with the goal of eventually having most/all transport to low orbit being handled by private spaceflight companies.
– Wait a few years to start work on developing a new public vehicle when newer technology is available. Focus on incremental goals for HSF eventually working up to Mars surface missions.

Unfortunately, what the Administration proposed and what Congress approved were two very different space policies. Congress did what it always does – look out for its own interests first and settle for less than what could be.

That’s what every other bureaucrat says about their program too.

Look the GOP has been almost one can say unpatriotic in how it has dealt with The President.

You’re run to talk.

The House is run by idiots whose claim to fame is infamy and nothing is going to endear Obama or his policies to mental midgets.

Your own grasp of those policies and the surrounding debate is pretty dubious, considering the guiding authorization passed with 66 more Democratic votes than Republican ones in the House under Democratic leadership.

He needs to explain if he comprehends why a private space industry in a country that never had a national airline; is important.

Why would he, when his star team you drooled over not little more than two years ago is offering full throated defenses of SLS?

He needs to explain why overhauling the health care system is important. What it creates what it enables.

He can’t, seeing as current law is already deviating badly from the ten year budgetary and economic performance baselines promised two years ago. Neither he nor anyone else would even try to project out to the following decade.

The GOP today is run by a corporate elite that panders to a bunch of people whose mental state is best described as “primitive”.

That corporate elite is financing your new, off-the-shelf lifters, so be a good boy and prostrate yourself accordingly.

They have invented history, cannot deal with reality and long for a world that never existed. Who cares about them? Lead the rest of the country into the future.

So you won’t be needing the aerospace industry in your new country?

“I would like to see Obama give a speech on his vision for The Republic in general but in specific on several issues including space politics. He needs to explain if he comprehends why a private space industry in a country that never had a national airline; is important.”

I understand where you are coming from now. I agree, I would like to hear speeches like that myself. I thought you were saying that by doing this we would get some movement in Congress, that is what I disagreed with. I just do not see the President getting much of anything anymore from the right.

Robert G. Oler wrote:

“What is annoying is that Obama is that there is an inspiring program that can be done…with what we have RGO”

you replied
Actually, I have to disagree with you on this one Robert. It doesn’t matter how inspiring President Obama is. ”

Look the GOP has been almost one can say unpatriotic in how it has dealt with The President. The House is run by idiots whose claim to fame is infamy and nothing is going to endear Obama or his policies to mental midgets.

BUT thats not me. I voted for McCain but knew he was toast in October and we have one President at a time, on this board when the SCOTUS gave its Bush ruling I more or less said “Its over”.

I would like to see Obama give a speech on his vision for The Republic in general but in specific on several issues including space politics. He needs to explain if he comprehends why a private space industry in a country that never had a national airline; is important. He needs to explain why overhauling the health care system is important. What it creates what it enables.

The GOP today is run by a corporate elite that panders to a bunch of people whose mental state is best described as “primitive”. They have invented history, cannot deal with reality and long for a world that never existed. Who cares about them? Lead the rest of the country into the future. RGO

<- Lori Garver's fingerprints are on this one. The Garver-Griffin feud in a nutshell.

“What is annoying is that Obama is that there is an inspiring program that can be done…with what we have RGO”

Actually, I have to disagree with you on this one Robert. It doesn’t matter how inspiring President Obama is. In my opinion, the more inspiring a speech or program is that he gives, or proposes the worst it will likely turn out for him. The Republicans in the congress, and surely in the House, do not want inspiring out of this President, they want failure and are willing to cast votes that are actually in the Nation’s best interest if it means a defeat for him in the next election. This President will likely rack up an astounding 400 filisbusters his first term. Republicans have been willing to even fillibuster legislation they were in favor of under President Bush.

Maybe in the lame duck it might change, if the President wins reelection, but I will not be holding my breath. The more inspiring this President tries to be, the more he is shot down by the opposition.