[Political Junkie Too]

This is probably a pre-emptive attempt to give Tom Daschle a campaign issue for his reelection.

Daschle pushed the Homestake Mine conveyance act of 2001, which exempted the mine from liability for environmental damage in order to build a science lab at the location.

Now, it appears that Daschle (through Johnson) is ginning up an issue for November. He'll run on a platform of keeping science dollars in South Dakota instead of sending the money to Mars.

-PJ

[Sockdologer]

But Martians starve too!

[RightWhale]

a platform of keeping science dollars in South Dakota instead of sending the money to Mars.

You're going to hear this kind of thing from now on. We heard it before, we heard it 30 years ago from grubby hippies. You're going to hear this as much now as the selected not elected slogan. They want no discussion, no debate. They will chant until you drop.