re: #252 EPR-radar
Solid points. However, I would add that GOP opposition to these kinds of programs never really goes away. Political reality may prevent outright repeal, but there are other ways to kill things.
I see that as their main tactic: doing everything they can to make the program seem inefficient, wasteful and counterproductive.
And they will take no prisoners and have no mercy in doing so. They have an idology to maintain: the ideology of the unrestricted Free Market.