[NonZeroSum]

Many conservatives and Republicans seem to be profoundly ignorant of and irrational on this subject.

[Inconvenient Truthteller]

George Landrith had got himself a sweet gig, writing without having to bother his pointy little head with facts and research.

[Gaffer]

I read the linked story, and frankly, it was a disjointed treatise on "how space is good" article with major references to the "SpaceX" program and how it "proved" it could dock a pressurized capsule with the ISS and how it should be an example of something.

The Solyndra link is patently weak, even almost non-existent. Loosely, somehow connecting to Obama's crony funded company (who the government auditors said couldn't work) to SpaceX.

Above all, this remark at the beginning, tells me all I need to know about the author(s):

It’s unfortunate that so many supposed conservatives are opposed to competitive markets in spaceflight, to the point that they embarrass themselves with ignorant rants against the Obama space policy, one of the very few things that the administration has gotten sort of right.

As an engineer who's actually had to run a project to design, build, test and qualify something for space applications, this article is long on political BS and very short on the mechanics of execution...I call bullshit.

[SECURE AMERICA]

they embarrass themselves with ignorant rants against the Obama space policy

Obama has a Space Policy?
Who knew!
What that space aliens that land in America van not be deported?

[cruise_missile]

Obama is getting big donations from the CEO of SpaceX. Not like Solyndra at all. /sarc

One mishap from SpaceX and they are finished. That is what our space program is based on now. One and done.

The CEO OF SpaceX said if the last launch failed. It would have been the end of SpaceX. So if they have astronauts and a failure. How long do you think a company can last after that?