http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111160,00.html

Wow. Lots of stuff here. I'lll start with the link to
http://www.space-access.org/updates/sau102.html - as usual, anything
put out by the Space Access Society is worth reading.

What I've found interesting about the reaction to the Bush space
policy is mainly that people actually have noticed. I don't remember
as much public discussion of SEI in the 80's (although of course this
could be selective memory).

You're right that a lot of the reaction has been knee-jerk anti-Bush.
This morning on the radio there was a whole thing about how it must
have to do with the militarization of space. Well, I'm sure the
commentator disagrees with the administration about the militarization
of space, but I don't see the connection to NASA or to the exploration
program. What hasn't been based on random observations about the Bush
administration has often been based on random observations about NASA
and/or space, again divorced from what is actually being proposed.