FWD: NASA foe Proxmire is now worm food

In article om,
Ed Kyle wrote:
Proxmire wasn't so much a NASA foe as he was a foe
of costly programs like space shuttle and space station.

No, it wasn't that simple or that rational. Your memory is very
selective there.

...today it seems that
most space advocates are saying the same things that
Proxmire said...

Not hardly. By accident, one or two of the things he attacked actually
partly deserved attack. That's very different from saying that he's
been vindicated.
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