Comments on: New and familiar faces joining the House Science Committee http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/12/13/new-and-familiar-faces-joining-the-house-science-committee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-and-familiar-faces-joining-the-house-science-committee 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: DougSpace http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/12/13/new-and-familiar-faces-joining-the-house-science-committee/#comment-389549 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:55:45 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6084#comment-389549 I just emailed Rep. Bridenstein re: the Lunar COTS concept. We’ll see if I’ll get any response.

]]> By: Stephen C. Smith http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/12/13/new-and-familiar-faces-joining-the-house-science-committee/#comment-389179 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:24:33 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6084#comment-389179 In addition to his other nutty remarks, Posey has often claimed that the Chinese are plotting to build a military fortress on the Moon — so the U.S. has to get there first to build its own military post.

I wrote a letter to Florida Today earlier in the year about Posey’s nonsensical claim. Posey, apparently thin-skinned, felt the need to pen a reply, claiming I was naive.

He did, however, finally reveal his source for this claim — a retired Foreign Service officer who penned a guest op-ed for the Washington Times. I checked the column and found that the author didn’t say what Posey claimed, just some personal speculation.

The sad thing is that people around here think Posey is more sane than Sandy Adams, whom he replaces on the committee. Sigh.

]]> By: vulture4 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/12/13/new-and-familiar-faces-joining-the-house-science-committee/#comment-389115 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:17:40 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6084#comment-389115 Posey is proud to have limited his education to a two-year degree from a local community college. He sponsored a bill requiring Florida public schools to teach a form of creationism, although it is deceptively described as “scientific criticism of the theory of evolution”. He sponsored a bill to strip NASA of all funding for climate research, acting on his theory that global warming is a liberal plot. He does seem to occasionally make back room deals with the other party, but in rallies he displays what I can only describe as virulent hostility toward the Obama administration and progressives of all kinds, blaming everything bad on Mr. Obama, to the wild cheering of his base. He can be counted upon to blame Mr. Obama for cancellation of Shuttle, to fully fund SLS/Orion, which he sees as a Republican initiative, and to proudly take credit for Commercial successes after stripping that program of most of its resources. He sponsored the “Space Leadership Act”, which would essentially turn control of NASA over to Congress. Most famously, he spent an untold number of taxpayer dollars pursuing the “birther” bill, to support his assertion that Mr. Obama is an alien. All in all, I can’t imagine anyone more suitable to decide America’s future in science.

]]> By: E.P. Grondine http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/12/13/new-and-familiar-faces-joining-the-house-science-committee/#comment-389101 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:33:42 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6084#comment-389101 Hi Jeff –

Any ideas when and who the Democratic Party members will be?

]]> By: Coastal Ron http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/12/13/new-and-familiar-faces-joining-the-house-science-committee/#comment-388945 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 02:35:28 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6084#comment-388945 With his hands on experience with aerospace, it will interesting what Rep-elect Jim Bridenstine ends up doing on the committee – will he ally more with Hall, or Rohrabacher? Will he support the SLS, Commercial Crew, the ISS?

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