dehammer just once you should try looking something up before inventing an answer: Just once!

You wrote:
"the president can fire and hire the head of NASA, but only after much more political debate than even you have done here."

http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/griffin_bio.html

Which part of "Nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate, Michael Griffin began his duties as the 11th Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on April 14, 2005." don't you understand?

This is the man with the power to hire and fire.
This is the man that controls the budget.
You just shot yourself in the foot yet again.
The hole you are digging is deep enough.

DA Morgan