Texas: White House

Congressman Pete Olson, caught like a deer in the headlights, after attempting to exploit a young child's heart condition for political gain, has a little secret of his own. He too has a heart condition. Besides the fact that he has no heart for those who cannot afford health care for their own family, he had emergency heart surgery shortly after taking office. In short, he has a pre-existing condition.

Olson said that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who was at the gym with members of Congress at 6:20 a.m., was the first person to reach him after he stumbled and fell.

In the and/or duh category, the Augustine Commission has stated NASA needs more money to continue it's quest to build a new vehicle(s), maintain the International Space Station, return to the Moon, and go to Mars.
Current budget constraints confronting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration make it virtually impossible to sustain manned missions to the Moon, Mars or further into space in coming decades, a blue-ribbon study group is expected to tell the White House.
Once again, NASA has been sent on a wild goose chase that will cost hundreds of billions yet they haven't received adequate funding and for good reason: NASA hasn't stated how much they need.

Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list" on health care, is asking President Barack Obama to cease a new program to have Americans send "fishy" information on health care to the White House.

Cornyn, the Texas Republican who leads his party's Senate campaign effort, said he's concerned that citizen engagement on health care reform could be "chilled."

"By requesting that citizens send "fishy" emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email addresses, IP addresses, and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House," Cornyn wrote to Obama. "I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward emails critical of his policies to the White House."

No response from the White House yet. Click the link below for the full text of Cornyn's letter:

Reading that the President of the United States, overwhelmingly elected last November because the nation wanted a change, is mulling over the concept of "preventative detention" of those suspected of being terrorists was the kind of shock no decent person should have to sustain the first thing in the morning.

From the NY Times:

President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.