Obama's Space Plan — a Conservative Argument

MarkWhittington writes "The Obama space proposal, which seeks to enable a commercial space industry for transportation to and from low Earth orbit while it cancels space exploration beyond LEO, has sparked a kind of civil war among conservatives. Some conservatives hate the proposal because of the retreat from the high frontier and even go so far as to cast doubt on the commercial space aspects. Other conservatives like the commercial space part of the Obama policy and tend to gloss over the cancellation of space exploration or even denigrate the Constellation program as 'unworkable' or 'unsustainable.'"

My private sector asteroid.

[tjstork]

All I gotta say is the if I ever had my own private sector asteroid, and the liberals wanted to tax it after killing manned space flight and wrecking the future of America so some morons can gobble down their welfare government cheese, than I'm dropping the dino-killer right on their fricking heads.

Types of conservatives

[Junior J. Junior III]

Conservative: n. 1) A person who holds to conservative principles or beliefs. 2) A person who agrees with other people who call themselves Conservatives, without regard to their actions, statements, beliefs, or principles. 3) A person who opposes anything that a non-Conservative (as defined by the first two definitions) says, does, or believes in.

Re:My private sector asteroid.

[PolygamousRanchKid]

. . . I'm dropping the dino-killer right on their fricking heads.

Dr Evil . . . ? Is that you . . . ?

Re:Space exploration is conservative.

[Anonymous Coward]

this idea in liberal camps that we should not be spending any money on things like space or defense, or even roads, for that matter. Instead, the federal government in their eyes should not do anything until every poor person is somehow fixed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY [youtube.com]
This is really all you need to know.

Re:Space exploration is conservative.

[that this is not und]

But if we did that, all the sugar growers in the Red River Valley would stop cultivating beet sugar. All that land would revert back to it's natural state, absorb moisture like it always did in the past, and the annual flooding up in the Fargo-Moorehead area would end.

Think of the people employed in dispensing Flood Relief Aid. Think of the sandbag manufacturers! We can NOT stop protecting our domestic Sugar Producers in the fashion you suggest.

The Constellation cancellation situation

[Geoffrey.landis]

Phrasing it more succinctly:
The situation with Constellation cancellation is consternation.