Re: Lori Garver Spins Kerry's Opposition to Space

From: Rand Simberg (newsgroups_at_transterrestrial.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:59:54 GMT

Henry Spencer wrote:

>>This is, putting it very politely, partisan dreck. The Bush Initiative
>>is certainly not "hot air." One does not issue a veto threat on a bill
>>that includes veterans and housing funding to support "hot air."
>
>
> "Talk is cheap, especially in an election year." What matters is whether
> Bush would actually veto, not whether he says he would.

What matters is whether or not Congress believes that he will. He
certainly doesn't want to have to face the test if it can be avoided.
He has a problem with credibility on this issue, unfortunately, because
if he does veto the bill, it will be the first one that he's vetoed,
well over three years into his term.

> This sudden show
> of support for an initiative he's basically ignored since first announcing
> it is suspicious, at the very least. This sounds more like something he
> was reluctantly talked into, and will be looking for a way out of.

That's not the sense one gets from Keith's and Frank's book, FWIW.