[Paul Ross]

Asking for more at this point is a non starter.

Is this a consensus opinion among us conservatives?

Frankly, it isn't with me. I want to fulfill the promise of strategic defense. Now. It is within reach. And any congress critters, liberal, or OMB bean-counters or FoggyBottom turncoats...or "promises promises" W [whose promises to Putin means more evidently than to us] ...which says "no"...can get out of my way...or get run over.

It is time to get very very much in all of their faces. Do we have any courage of our convictions, or not?

We need to make this a political steam-roller, on the order of the national rejection of Illegal Alien Amnesty

A national litmus test vote issue for '06 as well.

[Carry_Okie]

Not enough people know how far along SDI is for a groundswell to work without an enormous PR effort. The continuous attack by the left on SDI for decades has had deadly effect in that regard.

As things stand, I'd drop the raptor for more SDI money in a heartbeat, as well as massive production of backup control equipment, electronic vehicle ignitions, etc, maintained in properly shielded storage, particularly motor starters and electrical grid controls. An emphasis upon distributed power generation, particularly using small nukes would be a terrific way to improve national EMP survivability.