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petermarcus) wrote2003-02-03 10:04 pm
petermarcus) wrote2003-02-03 10:04 pm
Good Lord, Bill...
Excerpt from this article:
"There has been an ignoring and a starving of NASA for funds by the administration, and this isn't a partisan comment" Sen. Bill Nelson, a former astronaut, told CNN Monday. "It goes back to the previous administration. They have delayed as a result of that the safety upgrades to the space shuttle."
At the same time, Nelson -- a crew member of the 24th shuttle flight in 1986 -- said he doesn't think the "NASA family" ignored safety problems and said that he doesn't believe "this accident was the result of the lagging safety upgrades on the space shuttle."
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The problem of politics today. Make an inflammatory statement in one paragraph, then completely neutralize it in the next. Make up your mind, Bill. You can't link funding to safety problems after a tragedy like this, fully aware of the popular impact of a statement like that, then retract it in your next sentence. This is the classic Al Gore problem -- either grow some balls and make a stand, or keep your mouth shut.
"There has been an ignoring and a starving of NASA for funds by the administration, and this isn't a partisan comment" Sen. Bill Nelson, a former astronaut, told CNN Monday. "It goes back to the previous administration. They have delayed as a result of that the safety upgrades to the space shuttle."
At the same time, Nelson -- a crew member of the 24th shuttle flight in 1986 -- said he doesn't think the "NASA family" ignored safety problems and said that he doesn't believe "this accident was the result of the lagging safety upgrades on the space shuttle."
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The problem of politics today. Make an inflammatory statement in one paragraph, then completely neutralize it in the next. Make up your mind, Bill. You can't link funding to safety problems after a tragedy like this, fully aware of the popular impact of a statement like that, then retract it in your next sentence. This is the classic Al Gore problem -- either grow some balls and make a stand, or keep your mouth shut.