You'd think after coming up with the brilliant plan to spend another Billion (and eventually blow hundreds of billions) on the moon / mars missions, he'd at least MENTION it in the SOTU. Maybe he was afraid of being booed by his own morons.
Anyway, I think this is an opening, if this administration can't keep their focus / resolve for a few DAYS on something as long and drawn out as a Mars project, that just looks like more stupidity from a seemingly unending supply.
I think this one could be used as a wedge, since a lot of Republicans don't see the project as worth the money, and they love to think Bush has such "resolve". In places like Florida where some people might vote for Bush because of the mission, ask them if he's got so much resolve, why didn't he rally the country to go to Mars in the SOTU? How many other ideas has he run up the flagpole and then abandoned?