OK, I said I was signing off, but in a surprise, the local congresswoman is giving a brief talk.
Excited to be the newly elected congressperson from Florida 20th (the Cape), lives in New Smyrna Beach, and has watched Shuttles for years. Wants to bring other congress members down to share the enthusiasm. On the science committee not because she knows about science but because of her passion for space. Entrepreneurship demonstrated here is an important component to keeping America the premiere nation for space, and there is great synergism with the Florida entertainment industry. As a long-time business owner, thinks thatus her two-year-old son will be a customer. Bought an astronaut suit at the Dulles museum, and he fell in love with it, and now says “My shuttle, my shuttle,” since seeing the launch live. Sees partnership with private enterprise and entrepreneurship as being key. Says that commercial space is important to Senator Nelson as well, and wants to be partners with the people at this summit at the federal level, helping with regulatory issues, and looks forward to working with us.
It was a quick speech, and it looked like it was without notes and she made no news, but it was encouraging. We’re about to go to a reception with her and everyone else, where I may ask her a question or two. I’m curious to know if she’s aware of the ITAR problem.
Later.
You do realize she’s a democrat.
Shoot. There goes my plans to live in Florida. I thought they outlawed them there. Well, I still can live in Alaska.
You do realize she’s a democrat.
Yes, I’m well aware of that, you moron. As usual, I have to ask, do you have a point?
Her name proves something, maybe that God has an ironic sense of humor, or that character is destiny, something like that.
Oh, and jack, there’s nothing wrong with Democrats per se. Heck, my family has been blue collar Democrats for generations. I’m still a registered donk. It’s the new Democratic Party leadership that has tgotally gone off the rails, become some weird combination of crypto-Stalinist Chicago thug and pussified campus GLBA newsletter editor wet rag. My grandfather was a steelworker at Bethlehem for 45 years, starting when he was 16. He took no handouts, nor took shit from management skunks, lawyers, nor communists and college perfesser populist hucksters. He would be appalled by the degenerate and corrupt self-fellating thing the modern Democratic Party has become.
corrupt self-fellating
You say that like it’s a bad thing, yet it appears that that’s been the Dem goal all along.
Why doesn’t Nancy Pelosi want an investigation into the CIA’s constant lying to Congress? I thought lying to Congress or grand juries was supposed to be bad and those who did it must be pursued forever (see Libby, Scooter). That’s the sort of question these “reasonable” or so-called “Blue Dog” Dem congresscritters should be asked. Why do they unquestioningly support their leadership? What does she get for her vote for Pelosi and why was that good for the district and the country? Why don’t they at least exercise their power to clean up their party’s corruption, or is outdoing a decade of GOP corruption in a matter of months the whole point of being there?
She’s probably a very nice lady and sincere in her enthusiasm. But she’s part of a political movement which is destroying this country.
Did she really call herself a congress-person? Tongue in cheek, I hope.
“You do realize she’s a democrat.
Yes, I’m well aware of that, you moron. As usual, I have to ask, do you have a point?”
I am getting real close to giving a thumbs-down on jack. He seems to be addicted to stupid pills as of late. I haven’t seen a comment from him even approaching common sense in weeks now.
I know I sad not ban him but I am close to changing my mind.
Usually Mr Simberg has nothing but contempt for democrats, calling them traitors, etc….
I found it interesting that she is a Democrat.
Mike, maybe you don’t like Jack’s style (maybe I don’t either, exactly), but the net effect of his first comment was more informative than nearly any of the comments here, including this one, even though the other comments are from people who I usually appreciate very much. I’m just posting this not-very-informative comment because I want to vote (if there is an uninvited informal straw poll going on here) against banning Jack.
Jack, I wish you had said “She’s an example of a pro-commercial-space Democrat”. I agree that it is fun to poke at Rand (mostly because he is so dogmatic about the Left) but it is his blog, it is a great blog which has attracted a really interesting audience, so I wish you would poke a little more gently. Pointing out the existence of one more pro-commercial-space Democrat is enough of a poke, I think.
I’d rather hear how the reception went. Rand, did you find out if Rep. Kosmas knows about the ITAR problem? Did she say anything else interesting? Did you have a chance to speak with her?
Usually Mr Simberg has nothing but contempt for democrats, calling them traitors, etc….
Point to a single post in which I have called “democrats” “traitors.”
“Mike, maybe you don’t like Jack’s style (maybe I don’t either, exactly), but the net effect of his first comment was more informative than nearly any of the comments here, including this one, ”
Why, were you the only poster in this thread who was not aware she was a Democrat?
I wasn’t aware of her, or that she was a Democrat. I don’t know what other people knew.
I’ve since learned from her wikipedia article that “Kosmas won in a landslide, taking 57 percent of the vote to Feeney’s 41 percent–the largest margin of defeat for a Republican incumbent in the 2008 cycle.”
Too bad that being pro-commercial-space isn’t the trick to winning a landslide, even in her district, let alone in “normal” (less space-aware) districts.