So I was looking at the links at Raw Story, and one was to a claim that NASA had been "outsourced" to the Russians, and said claim apparently came from John Sununu, of whom I had not heard since the senior Bush presidency (the Senator of that name was his son).  He's plugging for Romney, and this claim is supposed to counter ads pinning Romney as an outsourcer to the max.  As it turns out, however:

... it was president Bush in 2004 who announced that the Shuttle program would be retired before the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle and Ares 1 launcher was ready to take American astronauts into space.

In 2008, Bush signed a waiver allowing U.S. astronauts to fly to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz vehicles beyond 2011. [Added emphasis mine.]

See, in baseball, if the pitcher loads the bases and is then taken out and the reliever serves up a tater, only one earned run has to be factored into the reliever's ERA (the previous pitcher, depending on how the runners got to base, gets dinged with those).

In New York City, if you need to go someplace the subway and bus system don't go and you don't have a car and you have the money, you hire a taxi.

Think of the Soyuz vehicles as a taxi.  (They're probably charging taxi rates, too.)