Hmmm…does this 1989 speech by former-President George H.W. Bush wound familiar? (via Altercation)

In 1961 it took a crisis — the space race — to speed things up. Today we don’t have a crisis; we have an opportunity. To seize this opportunity, I’m not proposing a 10-year plan like Apollo; I’m proposing a long-range, continuing commitment. First, for the coming decade, for the 1990’s: Space Station Freedom, our critical next step in all our space endeavors. And next, for the new century: Back to the Moon; back to the future. And this time, back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet: a manned mission to Mars.

Each mission should and will lay the groundwork for the next. And the pathway to the stars begins, as it did 20 years ago, with you, the American people. And it continues just up the street there, to the United States Congress, where the future of the space station and our future as a spacefaring nation will be decided.

If Dubya seems to be taking all his cues from his dad (ie. attacking Iraq, jobless economic recovery, going to the moon), I hope his next move is to throw up on the Japanese Prime Minister or get really confused when he sees a supermarket scanner. Like I said earlier, this administration is really lacking in the comic relief department.