Its playing out like I figured it would
http://www.slate.com/id/2155164/?GT1=8900
Note that Easterbrook is unaware of astronomy goal #10.
From his piece, you can see that he differs with the cosmologists, and their astronomy goal #10 is his astronomy goal #1. Geology goal #3 is pretty important to Greg as well.
As long as CAPS is suppressed by NASA management, then what will come down is another of those strange alliances between some of the "Mars Enthusiasts", who think that NASA should only be spending money on sending men to Mars, and the liberals, who view NASA as part of the military-industrial complex.