Mars Needs Dim Republicans

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Dubya dons a shiny spacesuit, dreams of spending billions to meet little green men. The nation cringes

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, January 14, 2004



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Let us imagine the discussion: "Boys, the nation's in massive reeling record-breaking debt and morale's at an all-time low and disposable American soldiers are dying brutal horrific deaths every day over nothing at all except our greed and flagrant cronyism and corporate petrochemical profiteering.

"Our cities are gasping and health care is a joke and we've mauled Medicare beyond recognition, and we're plundering the living hell out of Social Security, the last remaining stable and sound fund left, to try and shore up our rapacious and gluttonous spending.

"There are no WMDs and our former allies openly resent us and the poll ratings are slipping and the big glops of warmongering lies are drying like blood stains into a carpet. And it's an election year. Damn.

"What's to be done? What could rally a wary country during its time of humiliated need and force-fed ignorance? What could turn this troubled nation around in the face of oily corporate war and fiscal gluttony and environmental savagery?

"Why, neato space stations on the moon, and sending men to Mars, that's what!"


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This from a man who never cared a whit for space exploration in his entire spoon-fed career, a man who never even once visited the famed Johnson Space Center in Houston while serving as Texas governor. And just know half the impulse for this inane new idea is so Shrub can get himself flown to the space-shuttle launch pad and have his picture taken in a shiny spacesuit. How cute.

It's got that reek. It's got that reek of typical macho Republican election-year BS, the sort of hollow grandiose chest thumping that stains so many BushCo PR stunts, all war and guns and rockets and oil and big slabs of chemically blasted hormone injected semirancid Texas beef (hey, it's what's for dinner).



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1. Nobody writes like Morford!

He, Plaid Adder, and Maha keep me sane!

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2. I support space travel

and exploration. I really don't care if it's Bush, Clinton, or Carter.

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3. Bush needs some good reference...

Bush is doing his Space vision spiel for one reason...he needs something noted in the history books that shows the he was not just a greedy and ignorant elitist. If all the history books ever show of bu$hs reign,was the corruption and fraud, he would be forever branded the appointed IDIOT. By making a grand speech about lofty goals of expanding human frontiers, he hopes to leave one positive mark on his blighted record.

I fully support the space program but all his vision does is put up a smoke screen. Al Gore Won....it's been proven!