Progressive? Pissed off? Want to send a message?

Progressives are mopey, and for good reason.  Health care has been downgraded from single payer to public option to none of the above to what looks like none at all.  The democratic president is now advocating a rash spending freeze similar to the one proposed by his opponent on the campaign trail.  A republican has just been seated in Ted Kennedy's uber-safe Massachusetts senate seat.

I have seen some talk about voting Republican to punish the democrats for being a bunch of wimps, in a proposition which should sound familiar to anybody who remembers PUMA.  For any progressive seriously considering voting for a conservative republican candidate, there is a proverb about nose amputation that would seem to apply.

Make no mistake; this is the end of America's Manned Space Program

The announcement came as expected and of course they are trying to spin this as a new beginning for NASA. And while there are some good investments being made here, there's shockingly very little focus on the present. Let me tackle a few of the biggest issues I see with this new plan.