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Rather dim view of things that's for sure. Sadly one can see the old man sitting there and reflected in not only this administration but the whole government. Has our will to get vital things done simply vanished.
GWB would surely have better spent capital on pushing for this new version of SDI then saying we should put a man on mars. The hell with mars. It don't mean sh*t. SDI and related system do. If he went on the boob tube today and told the world America is going to revise it's priorities on SDI and put manned space travel on the back burners, due to very real security needs, and pledge those funds and more to the SDI, most all would have little to say but to go along with it. Of course NASA and associated industries would cry to the high heaven but so be it.
Tell them to switch gears and compete with say Ratheon, Gruman and the others on sub systems for SDI.
At any rate. I feel your pain to some small degree.

At any rate I feel your pain to some small degree

Maybe the pain just hasn't hit yet! Actually, if you grab for your wallet...you might find its been picked...and they gave you no missile defense... although if they had simply deployed Bush Sr's version back in '93 it would have been effective and comparatively cheap, as from the Independent Working Group conclusion:

The total life-cycle DOD CAIG-validated cost-estimate of this Bush-41 defensive deployment, including all of its RDT&E expenses, all of its production and launch costs, all of its operational and testing costs for 20 years – plus complete replacement of the constellation (involving the orbiting of another 1000 pebbles) – was $11 billion (1990 dollars)..21 In marked contrast to having an impressive global mis- sile defense capability for 20 years, the 6-year RDT&E budget for the Bush-43 ballistic missile defense program (2001-2006) – including no deployment costs – is administration-stated to be roughly $50-billion as-spent dollars. A January 2006 Congressional Budget Office study estimated that the current missile defense program could cost another $247 billion between now and 2024.
A detached observer perhaps could be excused for some puzzlement as to the origin and nature of the differences in ballistic missile defense tastes, judgments, and directions of the Bush-41 and -43 administrations.