I hope it's not because we're being set-up to be told, "It has to be an International undertaking...Due the the enormous costs, etc..."
The medias will do their job only when the times are right. We have the opportunity on FR to read the news that mostly never gets reported or outright buried.
I think partially because of the way Bush proposed things it came off as more election-year politics than anything else. Not that I don't mind - anything to get us truly back into space and when I look at Moon/Mars missions versus a lot of the pork that is in the budget (like $50 million for a rainforest education center in Podunk, Iowa ) I would rather see us going to the Moon/Mars.
Bush's mandate/proposal is pretty flimsy as well - it puts the onus on administrations past 2008.
You just have to read it to understand what I mean, but basically not much is going to be done over the next four years, other than a reorganization (which is already happening) and speeding up a few programs and finally ditching the Shuttle (which has been a hinderance to NASA) and doing things proper, all of which should have been done after Challenger. I think some are under the impression that we will be sending men to the Moon before the end of the decade.