Bush isn't doing this to impress Flrida. It's all over the news how this is actually throwing a wrench into the NASA works. As for contractors for NASA, which we have plenty of, that won't make much of a differnece. It's the same pie of money, Bush is just cutting differently.

Bush doesn't need to worry about Florida as long as his brother is governor anyhow. At least the person Jeb chose to replace Katherine Harris is at least honest. She's the former mayor of Orlando and is a fairly enlightened conservative.

As for going to Mars - don't people think that it might be nice to figure out how to have a nearly perfect bating avarage when sending robots their BEFORE you send humans? How many have we lost/had problems with so far? Yee Gods!