[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

Bush Sr. had to be able to get SOMEBODY through a Democrat-controlled Congress with close to 6 months left in his presidency, didn't he? Goldin has always been a registered Democrat, after all. And it was Clinton who kept him on board for 8 years before George W. Bush came in and cleaned house.

[Ready4Freddy]

Senate, not Congress, of course.

Goldin left NASA almost a year before the 2002 election, and ~14 months before W took office. The current NASA Administrator was in place >~13 months before W took office.