Isn’t there anything about America that this guy isn’t ready and willing to screw up?

According to Bryon York’s article in today’s Washington Examiner, we are going to suffer through some more rounds of lowered expectations in regards to our space program, which by the way, will no longer be focused on “space”. Don’t ya just love these Orwellian Dems?

In a far-reaching restatement of goals for the nation’s space agency, NASA administrator Charles Bolden says President Obama has ordered him to pursue three new objectives: to “re-inspire children” to study science and math, to “expand our international relationships,” and to “reach out to the Muslim world.” Of those three goals, Bolden said in a recent interview with al-Jazeera, the mission to reach out to Muslims is “perhaps foremost,” because it will help Islamic nations “feel good” about their scientific accomplishments.

I like Ed Morrissey’s take on the Muslim self-esteem directive part of this mess:

Hey, maybe that’s why Obama hasn’t taken the Iranian effort to build a nuclear bomb all that seriously until now. He just wanted Iran to make the Muslim world feel good about their achievements in science! And it’s hard to do to that unless you talk a lot about outstretched open hands — and ignore a freedom movement that wants to depose the brutal tyrants who are trying to give the Muslim world a new “historic contribution.”

When I was a kid, we were going to the moon, and dreaming about colonizing Mars and the asteroid belt. Now, what can we expect? Bolden had something to say about that too:

We’re not going to go anywhere beyond low earth orbit as a single entity. The United States can’t do it, China can’t do it — no single nation is going to go to a place like Mars alone.

We’re now so pathetic that we can’t even begin to dream about it, let alone have the courage to try? To rub more salt in this wound, Bolden made these statements to al-Jazeera during a recent trip to the Middle East.

Let’s recap — Secretary of State makes domestic announcements in Ecuador before they are announced here, and NASA administrator Charles Bolden tells the Muslim world our “space” plans before we are informed?

Guess it doesn’t really matter all that much — ’cause NASA isn’t interested in “space” anymore, as Bolden puts it, ““NASA is not only a space exploration agency, but also an earth improvement agency.”

Gotta stop all that pesky Global Warming don’t ya know — and make those poor, misdirected Middle Eastern Muslims feel good about themselves. That otta keep them from flyin’ anymore jumbo jets into American skyscrapers, or keep Iran from nuking Israel, or keep the Taliban and al Qaeda from trying to use a WMD over here.

What a stellar Pres we got ourselves — Oh, ya betcha!

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