"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:28:30 -0400, in a place far, far away,
"jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:


ps ...It's almost October before a general election. Time to
get the political juices flowing. Please Lord, let at least
one branch fall to the demoncrats.

And make it the House.


Please God! I don't ask for much, but we need it bad.

Do you really fantasize that putting the Dems in charge of the House
will fix, or even change, NASA's budget priorities in a useful way?



It might. But the basic problem is having one party, dems or
repubs, running all three. It doesn't really matter which
party, but having all three branches means one rubber stamp
after another.

One abuse after another. Debates, oversight and investigations
are stifled, and half the country gets to stuff whatever they
like down the throats of the other half.

One branch has to fall to stop this train wreck. And the House
is where all budgets begin. Do you really think the contractors
can spend fast enough to lock in the moon mission in the next
two or three years? I don't.

The repubs are very good at stifling internal dissent.
Look at the global warming issue, silence from the various
agencies until Katrina. Then it all came pouring out. Same thing
can happen with the moon mission once Bush is gone.

" I started early, took my dog"

Whether or not all this blathering changes a thing?
You just have to have faith, that if the ideas are correct
and one is persistant, it'll get around somehow.




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