"I would say understanding my position might be helpful on your part. I did not come here to post support of GW. Doing that on this forum would be senseless. Rather, I thought this was a good forum to discuss the advisability of having political appointees make scientific decisions."
And you got your answer. Everyone on FR knows that science is very politicized, but they know that it is politicized in the opposite direction from what you believe. Most of science is biased strongly to the left wing because scientists have this weird idea that democrats support their work more than republicans. In fact, republicans tend to support the sciences more than democrats, but they don't like seeing hard-earned tax dollars thrown down a black hole.