You don’t say:
Usually, the WH will work out a date in private with the Speaker & Majority Leader before going public with a request.
Well, that’s only for those White Houses that aren’t occupied by the Sun King.
Obama’s lucky he’s been offered a joint session at all. There is nothing in the Constitution or law that requires Boehner to give him one. He could have told the president to pound sand, and give an Oval Office address. It’s not like he’s going to say anything new.
The Tea Party in Space is starting to get attention from conservative media. We need to see more of this to forestall a space-policy nightmare like the return of Mike Griffin.
The latest edition is out. The lead story is launch pad logistics problems for SpaceX.
Just for the record, I think he’s an idiot, but Megan McArdle poses an interesting question — how do Barack Obama’s reelection chances stack up against Herbert Hoover’s?
Whenever someone claims that Sarah Palin takes the crown for this, I think of Dick Cheney.
…has another temper tantrum. Clark Lindsey explains the facts of life to him. He’s obviously trying to position himself to get his old job back in a Republican administration. If that were to happen, it would be a disaster for our prospects in space.
I await a credible alternate explanation. It is, after all, all part of the Chicago way.
…what kind of airplanes Rick Perry flew? I haven’t seen Barack Obama pilot anything except a bicycle.
Traditionally, though it’s not a written rule, vice presidents have been in charge of space policy, though some are more so than others. Johnson was very much so, Agnew was somewhat, Ford and Rockefeller not much, Mondale tried to kill the Shuttle and succeeded in reducing the fleet size, GHW Bush wasn’t particularly involved as far as I recall, but Quayle was considerably, as was Gore. Sean O’Keefe was supposedly a friend of Dick Cheney’s, being groomed for bigger things when he was tapped as NASA administrator.
So I was over at Barnes & Noble, and picked up a copy of Cheney’s new book, and turned to the index. Mentions of O’Keefe? None. Mentions of the moon? None. Mentions of the Vision for Space Exploration? None. Mentions of NASA? None.
Come to think of it, I didn’t do a search for “Shuttle” or “Columbia,” but it’s hard to see how they would have been mentioned without mentioning NASA or O’Keefe. Basically, it wasn’t important enough to him to discuss it in a several-hundred-page book.
I would also note that, thankfully, Joe Biden doesn’t seem to be involved with space policy.