Fear not. First, this is just a going in position. Premier Hussein will find rabid Senators from production states in his path, and the fight will go on for a long, long time.
And even if this plan does triumph, there are commercial alternatives being worked on, and by competent people who don't have a lot of bureaucratic obstacles....like at Orbital and SpaceX.
Rockets are not that hard to build. Man rated capsules are even less hard, contrary to popular opinion. The Russians have been flying what amounts to modified diving bells for a long time, and doing it off a production line which can only be described as Troglodyte.
A modern production line will be able to pull it off quite easily. The hard part will be to pull in the horns, set a clear target, and aim for that: no more shuttles, with it's One Machine to Do Everything philosophy.
And someday maybe the voters in America will notice that this clown is upset about spending maybe 10% of the money he gave to AIG on NASA, and do something about it.
“Fear not. First, this is just a going in position. Premier Hussein will find rabid Senators from production states in his path, and the fight will go on for a long, long time. “
but that’s just space pork and not a substitute for an actual vision for outer space.