OK, when I wrote a few days ago that there wasn’t one idea offered by the Teaparty that hasn’t failed or won’t work, I was wrong. W-R-O-N-G. It turns out there’s an organization called Teaparty In Space that’s tracking government pork being divvied up under the disguise of NASA funding and who are enthusiastic about newspace. And they are indeed not the least bit afraid to call out Republicans who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk:
With Senator Kay (TX-R) Bailey Hutchison’s press release last week we now know the full roster of senators who are pushing for a $38 billion dollar “bailout earmark” or Space Launch System (SLS). Clearly, these same senators are not interested in fiscal responsibility, limited government, free markets, or an affordable space program for that matter.
Good for them! It’s a pretty spiffy looking site too. Why don’t progressives have something like this? I can sure think of someone who could run it for a most reasonable fee (Cough cough). The answer is progressives are always short on money. I keep waiting for my George Soros hate-America check, but so far it hasn’t shown up.
It’s nice to see this nascent movement on the right freaking side of an issue for once, especially a science issue. Hopefully, this one oasis of common sense and love of science will grow and affect the wider movement. Hey, a blogger can dream!
Some of the anti-choicers seem to have called it right about Rick Perry’s mandating the Gardasil vaccine for every 11/12-year-old girl in Texas as a sell-out to the pharmaceutical industry.
The same accusation was leveled (by the same people) at the California embryonic-stem-cell research initiative a few years back: I haven’t seen enough post-facto analysis of same to have formed an opinion whether they scored another hit.
And the Judicial Watch wingnut group has, once in a while, uncovered dirt on the GWBush & BHObama administrations that actually merits attention.
Maybe if I stay awake all night I’ll remember another example.
If you want to cut spending, ask a Libertarian.