On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:10:58 -0500, in a place far, far away, Michael
Gallagher made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

All the talk about the possiblity of Orion being "shrunk" to fit on an
EELV and with that, the possible scuttling of Moon flights by the (yet
to be inaugurated!) Obama administration leaves me with a question:
Do politicians have an aversion to sending manned missions beyond LEO?

No. They just have an aversion to any proposal that doesn't provide
the requisite amount of pork for their districts. They don't give a
goddamn about space.