Burt Rutan "****ed off"

I believe what Burt Rutan was referring to was the stranglehold on
pirvate space projects. What ever hapened to the guy who was
scrounging old Atlas missile parts to make his own 100 kilo rocket? I
can just see the FAA inspectors quibbling him to death because nothing
had a yellow tag on it, or he couldn't prove provenance of a part.
As for NASA, what we are seeing is very typical of a mature
Bureaucracy where all the decision makers got where they are by never
taking a chance as far as they know and never making waves. 'Go along
to get along', etc. Not a leader in the bunch. Score points by making
the boss happy - always. Squelch the wave-makers. All decisions
approved by committee thus diluting the blame. A complete antithesis
of the old Skunk Works.
Walt BJ