Well nice try also, but I'm not optimistic because there is nothing really more other than STS is going to be extended through 2011 (which was foreseeable, i.e is a usual NASA delay), and that the remaning 64 member astronaut corps (which once was more than 140 in 2000) and a lot of other things are going to be cut dramatically
NASA has selected 13 companies for potential contracts and for evaluating heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts, but that's for the future. And this future is more than far away any rather uncertain yet. The White House is quite busy doing research on how to cut NASA at best, because the government currently suffers from other serious domestic political problems other than the question of NASA's future manned program (they don't really care at the moment).
There are always NASA officials who make advertising for NASA and try to make sound everything bloomy and harmonic. It's usual. They also did so even when Constellation was widely known to be as dead as possible (they even did send form letters to employees to try to encourage them which of course did not work).
