Re: Why Democrats Should Support Space Exploration

[Xenophile <xenophile2002@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mark Reiff wrote:

> FYI,
>
> Even when Democrats admit they are wrong, they are
wrong. :)

And even when Republicans refuse to admit that they
are wrong, they are wrong.  :)

At least once you admit to being wrong, you can make
another try at being right.  Something that can not be
done by those who are convinced of their own
infallibility.

"what would your biggest mistake be, would you say,
and what lessons have you learned from it?"

<eyes glaze over>
<stares off into space (and not the kind we're wanting
to explore)>
<stammers a bit>
<never answers the question>

> Democrats hate President Bush so much that they will
scuttle
> NASA's Democrat style big-science space program that
would

Doubt it.  The Dems have people working for aerospace
corps. in their districts, too.  Just wish space
exploration could be more than that again.  And that
somebody would explain how we are going to pay for it.

> continue their socialist gripe on space access. 
Their myopia
> may well enable commercial space to do an end-around
on a
> weakened, inaffectual NASA bureaucracy, and really
open up
> space development.

So... the Dems are right, but for the wrong reason?

My favorite part was this:

Space advocates can come from both parties and might
be bitterly divided over the war in Iraq, abortion,
tax policy, and uncountable other things. However, on
the subject of space exploration, there is no reason
why Democrats and Republicans cannot be allies.

Maybe that's too much to ask.

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