Not pro-Apollo legacy? Gimme a break.
I'm much more pro human expansion outside of LEO right now than you are.
I think you're the one leting your european love of anything proposed by Liberal Dems color your opinion. I base mine on value received. In this case paltry. The novelty of constant Earth pics live would be ephemeral if at all in this age of computer graphics simulations, and certainly not worth not flying a valuable Discovery class alternative mission.

If the US had not lost the balls it once had and become more and more like moribund socialist eurocultures, we'd easily refute the Apollo didn't happen crowd by going to the moon, servicing our polar observatory and fueling station. But that is not to be. Much the shame.

-philw