Mars, bitches!

Look familiar?

NASA Plans Lunar Outpost :

The effort was presented as an unprecedented mission to learn about the moon and places beyond, as well as an integral part of a long-range plan to send astronauts to Mars.

Volokh:

Maybe I'm just too skeptical about our federal government, but I have a feeling that NASA's announcement today of a plan to set up a permanent base on the moon won't go much beyond NASA's announcement today of a plan to set up a permanent base on the moon.

Gaius at Blue Crab:

However, the Post does mention the one thing that has been nagging at me about this as well. Congress may not be willing to fund it sufficiently.

Next we'll hear that it's the Democrat's fault that we're still living on this planet dealing with the Islamofascists when we could but up there instead...all because they were unwilling to privatize NASA and decided to spend money on such trivial things as health care, education, transportation and body armor.