{"id":1740,"date":"2004-05-11T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T14:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1740.html"},"modified":"2004-05-11T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T14:55:19","slug":"bushs-head-is-apparently-still-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bushs-head-is-apparently-still-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush’s head is apparently still in the clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the better part of three years, the president expressed no interest in space exploration. In January, however, the White House insisted that Bush needed a “JFK moment,” in which the president could be viewed as reaching for the stars — literally. As a result, Bush unveiled a hastily thrown-together initiative<\/a> that would strive for a manned mission to Mars.<\/p>\n

And then, nothing. Bush didn’t mention this bold, new initiative in the State of the Union or in any other speech. There was no talk about how to fund such a project, or why such missions would be beneficial. Bush simply mentioned it once and then quickly let it vanish from, ahem, the face of the earth.<\/p>\n

Now that Bush has no new policy initiatives to campaign on, the off-on-and-off-again policy is, apparently, about to make a comeback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President George W. Bush plans to make a major speech early this summer defending his plan for a new U.S. space exploration initiative, administration sources told United Press International. <\/p>\n

Sources said although drafting the speech — termed a vigorous call to support the president’s new space exploration policy he announced last January — has not yet begun, aides have been narrowing prospective dates and venues. <\/p>\n

“The president wants to speak about space,” a senior administration source said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course he does. The president certainly doesn’t want to speak about developments on this<\/i> planet, so it’s only natural he’d be looking to change the subject to a more ethereal topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the better part of three years, the president expressed no interest in space exploration. In January, however, the White House insisted that Bush needed a “JFK moment,” in which the president could be viewed as reaching for the stars — literally. As a result, Bush unveiled a hastily thrown-together initiative that would strive for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}