I believe the nation wants feel-good, multi-culti space TV with no investment in design, engineering or planning for the future of manned spaceflight.
I believe the nation wants a scapegoat for its failure to design and build an adequate reusable earth-to-orbit system, and I agree with the poster who said the KSC boys are the probable target.
I believe (no, I know) the nation wants immunized smallpox response teams but will not tolerate a single case of eczema vaccinatum, to the point that the consent form is >20 pages and over 40% of military vaccine candidates were excluded.
It is a miracle that we have President Bush (really), but we are the same people who elected Clinton (twice), and we haven't changed all that much.
Yet.