Comments on: Obama Threatens to Veto House Spending Bill Over Commercial Crew Provisions

By: Michael Turner

Michael Turner — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:08:05 +0000

I doubt he had to burn political capital. It’s not like the GOP is in any mood to cooperate with him in the first place, and I’m sure the smell of burning capital is more on their side than elsewhere: does your average Republican voter *not* believe in competition? Most voters favor spending more money if it creates jobs, so the argument from austerity doesn’t work either.

By: warshawski

warshawski — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:01:03 +0000

At least Obama is standing up for the future of Amercian space flight. It would be good if he would veto SLS/Orion and use the money for something usefull.

By: Frank Glover

Frank Glover — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:16:28 +0000

Well I’ll be. I didn’t think the President would consider this important enough to stand up and burn a degree of political capital on. Good!