WTF Is It Now?!?

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Earth to Dumbyuh...
"The decision [to build a moon station] was controversial within the White House, with some aides arguing that it would make more sense to focus immediately on Mars, since humans have already landed on the moon and a Mars mission would build cleanly on the success of Spirit, the US rover that landed safely on Mars last weekend. Bush himself settled the divisions, according to the sources, [following orders from] Karl Rove. One presidential adviser, who asked not to be identified, said, after discussing the initiative with administration officials, that the idea is 'crazy' and mocked it as the 'mission to Pluto' {More like Uranus, if you get my drift - Ed.}. 'It costs a lot of money and we don't have money,' the official said. 'This is destructive of any sort of budget restraint.' The official added that the initiative makes any rhetoric by Bush about fiscal restraint 'look like a feint.'"

The top 11 reasons space cadet Bunnypants wants to go to the moon
"Bush, the man who has driven the US into near-bankruptcy and the dollar into an international collapse, while overextending US resources to the breaking point in Iraq and Afghanistan, the man who couldn't successfully engineer a manned mission to eat Turkey in Baghdad, now wants to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a grandiose scheme to conquer the moon and Mars. Why? Here are eleven reasons I can think off just offhand: 1. If he can divert the public's attention into space, maybe they won't notice how badly he has fucked everything up on Earth. 2. In his never-ending quest to be likened to a real president (he's tried parallels to everyone from Lincoln to FDR to Reagan), Bush is hoping maybe someone will imagine he is like JFK, who inspired the US to set their sights for the moon. Of course that was back when America had the money to spend on such projects. And the only similarity between Bush and JFK is that they both had ruthless fathers." - - read more here.