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House Space Subcommitee's Surreal NASA Budget Hearing
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2015/04/16/house-space-subcommitees-surreal-nasa-budget-hearing/
House Space Subcommitee’s Surreal NASA Budget Hearing
Posted by Doug Messier on April 16, 2015
I woke up early this morning with a low-grade headache. Checking Twitter, I discovered I’d slept through the beginning of a House Subcommittee on Space’s hearing on NASA’s budget with Administrator Charlie Bolden.
My headache immediately worsened as I found the hearing webcast on my cell phone. A whole range of largely unprintable words and phrases came immediately to mind, but there was one that kept coming back: clown car. The House Science Committee really needs a bigger clown car.
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What really got my head pounding was a line of questioning and statements from the Republican majority best summed up by a paragraph in House Science Committee Chairman’s Lamar Smith’s opening statement.
It was yet another spectacularly false claim made in an institution already well know for its overabundance of bullshit.
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House Space Subcommitee’s Surreal NASA Budget Hearing
Posted by Doug Messier on April 16, 2015
I woke up early this morning with a low-grade headache. Checking Twitter, I discovered I’d slept through the beginning of a House Subcommittee on Space’s hearing on NASA’s budget with Administrator Charlie Bolden.
My headache immediately worsened as I found the hearing webcast on my cell phone. A whole range of largely unprintable words and phrases came immediately to mind, but there was one that kept coming back: clown car. The House Science Committee really needs a bigger clown car.
<snip>
What really got my head pounding was a line of questioning and statements from the Republican majority best summed up by a paragraph in House Science Committee Chairman’s Lamar Smith’s opening statement.
“The Administration continues to starve NASA’s exploration programs to fund a partisan environmental agenda. NASA simply deserves better.”
It was yet another spectacularly false claim made in an institution already well know for its overabundance of bullshit.
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