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I'm sorry, but it's either to the point that Republicans are absolute bald faced liars, or they are total morons. Right now on Drudge we have this:

A quick click and you are taken to this:

Now, here's some real Obama outsourcing.

This morning, Kazakhstan time, the next mission to the International Space Station successfully blasted off carrying the usual trio -- a Russian commander, an astronaut from the international community and an American in a seat rented by NASA since the retirement of the last U.S. space shuttle a year ago this month.

That's on Investors Business Daily, a far cry from the "liberal" media. Reading the comments you can also tell that they aren't much in the liberal column either.

So was it Obama who killed the shuttle program and cause this? Well let's look a little bit at the history. On January 14, 2004, the President gave a speech, “New Vision for Space Exploration Program.” In it, this President said:

To meet this goal, we will return the Space Shuttle to flight as soon as possible, consistent with safety concerns and the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. The Shuttle's chief purpose over the next several years will be to help finish assembly of the International Space Station. In 2010, the Space Shuttle -- after nearly 30 years of duty -- will be retired from service.

That’s what Ben Nelson and Susan Collins apparently think. Greg Sargent has obtained a memo of the latest round of changes to the stimulus package being proposed by these two:

Total Reductions: $80 billion

Eliminations:

Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area Power Administration, CDC, Food Stamps

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Reductions:

Public Transit $3.4 billion, School Construction $60 billion

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Increases:

Defense operations and procurement, STAG Grants, Brownfields, Additional transportation funding

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So building schools isn’t stimulating, but spending more on defense is? Oh and food stamps? Isn’t the very simple idea of people being able to purchase food, rather through their salary or a government program, increasing demand, which is stimulus in the very core sense? How about being able to hire firefighters, police, and keeping prison open? THOSE ARE JOBS!!!!!! Nelson and Collins aren’t worried about stimulating the economy – they are worried about appearing bi-partisan. They should both be told to sit down as they have had their fun and the grown-ups have serious work to do now. 

Raw Story has gotten their hands on one of the first proposals for budget
cuts the GOP has authored. Seems like they are not as much up on public opinion
as we would hope. They aren't targeting the actual pork items, instead they got
their sites set on something else. Mostly they are calling for cuts in Medicare
and Medicaid, reduce funding for AIDS programs, cancel the NASA moon mission,
and scrap funding to arts programs.

The plan was authored by Representative Mike Pence and is available online

here. Essentially the Republicans are doing everything they can to protect
their precious tax cuts. This means cutting out programs that benefit the middle
and lower class people of this country.