tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30340112.post5711123037776413672..comments2023-10-04T05:42:58.799-05:00Comments on Half Empty: Pete Olson on NASA: All Talk and No ActionHalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06691384412216558403noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30340112.post-85597047216944232442009-08-09T22:28:55.303-05:002009-08-09T22:28:55.303-05:00That's right. "Just Say No."
Courte...That's right. "Just Say No."<br /><br />Courtesy of the "Party of No."<br /><br />Don't you think, though, that Olson should be a little less duplicitous? On the one hand fawning on their past successes, on the other stabbing them in the back by withholding funding?<br /><br />What a jerk.Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691384412216558403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30340112.post-15961509696630831112009-08-09T21:23:35.703-05:002009-08-09T21:23:35.703-05:00Some of us like those "no" votes! It...Some of us like those "no" votes! It's hard to find any bill in Congress that a reasonable person would support after the pork, etc, is considered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30340112.post-84657416506808019192009-08-06T19:57:18.683-05:002009-08-06T19:57:18.683-05:00If President Obama wants to maintain JSC jobs he w...If President Obama wants to maintain JSC jobs he will. If he doesn't want to maintain those jobs, he want.<br /><br />It is completely up to him and the Democratically controlled Congress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30340112.post-44135368393536553722009-08-06T16:58:47.653-05:002009-08-06T16:58:47.653-05:00JSC will wither and die, and the people who work a...JSC will wither and die, and the people who work as JSC employees and contractors deserve it. They had a tireless advocate in Nick Lampson who had the juice to help JSC as NASA transitions to a new period. But in a stunningly myopic choice, the NASA employees voted to replace Lampson. Amazingly enough, Lampson drew fewer votes percentage-wise from the Clear Lake area than from any other area in CD22. And now an ideologue who will clearly vote as a blinding partisan has taken the helm. He is sprinting as quickly as possible into obscurity in his early tenure in Congress. To compound his lack of clout or standing, he is demonizing all federal spending at the same time that he is demanding more money be spent on NASA. It would be laughable if the consequences for SE Texas weren't so dire. Adding to the mix, K.B. Hutchison is retiring, and with her Texas will lose all of it's clout in the Senate with Appropriations. Cornyn is a dud, who has never had interest in NASA (curious that when Olson was his COS, neither Olson nor Cornyn ever demonstrated any interest in JSC). <br /><br />I digress. It will be interesting to see who the Clear Lake community blames when the NASA tit dries up and jobs began to hemorrhage from the area. I'm sure they will find a way to demonize the Democrats for this, but I think they should take a more introspective approach. They've cut off their nose to spite their face, and now it's time to live with the consequences. I say ship all the jobs and the work to KSC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com