Rush blames end of shuttle program on "Barack Hussein Obama" funding things like "Muslim outreach"

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

From the drug addict's July 21 show:
"But this was it, folks, what a proud moment for the United States of America. I mean you didn't have to get up and see it live. You can see tape of it. You can watch it on YouTube or any number of news sites or cable news stations, to be able to tell your children and your grandchildren that you were there when the United States of America got out of the nonsense of space exploration by man and all the money got diverted to more useful things down here on earth like Muslim outreach and studying the catastrophic effects of climate change thanks to our Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm."

[Roselma]

1. Rush just lies through his teeth. In 2004 Bush announced

the phase out of the shuttle.

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040114-3.html

Sad thing is that people who are dumb enough to call themselves "dittoheads" have NO idea that he lies to them.

[mfcorey1]

2. There was scheduled downsizing before Obama took office. But what does the truth matter to an

insane person?

[Skip_In_Boulder]

3. Geez, things are so bad

Even Rush is having to scrape the bottom of the barrel.

[RKP5637]

4. Rush, is an irrelevant idiot out to make a buck by screaming the outrageous to

attract his flock for advertising revenue. In the big scheme of things he's not even a hair on a gnat's ass.

[madokie]

13. He is the dingle berry on that hair on that gnats ass

Treasonous bastard is what he is and should be dealt with as a traitor to his country is.

[humblebum]

5. But Obama did cancel the Constellation program last year, which

was well into development and was to be the replacement for the Shuttle program. 16000 jobs gone. America now has no manned space program. That was one of the few programs that paid for itself in new technologies, jobs, and defense. All gone. Very sad.

[Trajan]

9. Constellation had some serious issues ....

and ... really .... Your claim that "America now has no manned space program." is simply not true ....

America DOES have a space program .... Commercial outfits are kicking into high gear .... There will be jobs ... They wont pay quite as high, but they will pay more than average positions in many cases.

I say this as a former Shuttle electrical technician (CA) who worked aboard all orbiters except Enterprise. It was always feast or famine in the shuttle program, and we all knew it ....

There are at least 8 serious manned and unmanned space efforts going on outside of the Space Shuttle program ... Space X and Bigelow quickly come to mind ... Elon Musk and Space X are this close to launching Falcon 27 heavy lift, which will be the most powerful rocket since Saturn 5 launched from America soil ....

At least some of those jobs will return .... You have to be flexible .... All Rockwell/Boeing Space Division employees know this ....

[humblebum]

14. I was speaking in somewhat broader terms of a national manned-space

program. And, of course Constellation had some issues, including but not limited to a defined direction. All programs have issues. However, now we are left without a national program and no national direction. As for the private programs, they are all well and good, but our national capability at this point in time is equal to the 1960's as far as putting astronauts in space.

There will always be a healthy private sector, as there should be, but to conduct space flight on the level needed to compete in space with other emerging programs, to supply needed jobs, to contribute to defense, and to spur development of new technologies that keep on a level that is sorely needed, takes a national effort. We would not dream of eliminating our navy or air force and replacing same with private enterprise. There is no difference here. Good ideas come from both private and public programs, but this nation is now at a much lower strategic and competative level without an active national manned-space program. To let it lapse and to be without any specific direction is short-sighted and dangerous on so many levels.

[Contrary1]

6. Bite it, Rush. Even if it was Obama who closed down the shuttle program, (which it wasn't)

you as a Teabagging Teabagger should be ecstatic at all the money that will be saved.

[Amonester]

8. Yep. After all, if Obama had overturned bu$h's decision, I'm sure

ru$h would have found something else to try to profit from out of his inherent hate of both Obama and ALL Muslims.

No surprise there.

[Chipper Chat]

7. There aint too many more straws El Rushbo can grab at.

Even his own loyal teabagger audience must be taking him with a grain of oxy-salt.

[jmowreader]

10. Maybe we should REWARD Rush for his persistence...

by giving him an ambassadorship to a nation where the insurgency doesn't like the US, is Muslim and has multiple rocket launchers.

We'd need a new embassy because the insurgents would shell it flat the first night he was there, but, y'know, shit happens.

[johnd83]

11. The space shuttle should have been replaced years ago

The space shuttle was a very impressive machine, but it was really a technological failure. Don't take this the wrong way, I love NASA and actually worked there for a bit, but if you ask any space engineer they will say that it was always impractical. It should have been replaced in the late 90s. Think about how safe your cars were in the mid 70s compared to now, and that is the same era of technology. The shuttle was always way too expensive and complex for the task it did. We need the "big dumb rocket" technology that is being developed by companies like Space X now. Kerosene and liquid oxygen has worked great for the Russians as fuel, and it is cheap and easy to handle.

[tanyev]

12. I'm sure you wouldn't have to dig too hard to find quotes from Rush complaining

about tax money going to various NASA programs.

[quaker bill]

15. Whatever "muslim outreach" is, I would bet

we don't spend enough money on it to even buy the fuel for a shuttle launch. I don't know what government program lintballs is actually referring to, or even that such a program exists, but if it exists at all, I would bet it is tiny.