Posted 5/16/2010 02:25:00 PM by Douglas

Who needs space travel when you can just sit around and blame Obama. Or Bush. Whatever.

The Galveston County Democratic Party teamed with labor unions for its rally that officials said was focused on positive lobbying in support of the space center. Members of local tea party groups and Republican activists pledged the only way to support manned space flight was to bounce President Barack Obama and Democrats who hold the congressional majority from office.

While pledging more money for NASA overall, the president’s proposed budget includes a major dismantling of the Constellation program that was to have returned man to the moon and set up future missions to Mars. Thousands of jobs in this region are tied to that program and the soon-to-be ended space shuttle program.

And so forth. So Obama increased funding, but cut the program. Bush gave NASA a program, but no money. You'd think there'd be a way to work this out. But I like this assessment of the current NASA path:

“The only way I could accurately describe it is, you remember that Christmas when you were promised a bicycle and instead you got a sweater?” he said. “Don’t let this administration give us the sweater.”

At least it wasn't a big puffy pink bunny suit. Ralphie agrees: