The new Republican - leave Congress is presently busy pick people to chair its many commission and subcommittee . Guess what ! Tea Party submarine Senator Ted Cruz is the new chairperson of the Subcommittee on Space , Science and Competitiveness . Thatmeans he will supervise NASA . Yep — the clime - deny Tea Party herowho tried to defund NASAis now in explosive charge of NASA .
It ’s may be a bit uttermost to say that Cruz hate NASA . But it does n’t really seem like he loves the world ’s greatest space agency , since hetried to welt its backing a duet years ago . Cruz is also the lawmaker who help orchestrate the governing closure , a 16 - solar day - long disaster that did irreparable terms to scientific research , including work being done at NASA . Meanwhile , Marco Rubio — whoalso desire NASA to get less funding — will superintend the NOAA as chair of the Subcommittee on Oceans , Atmosphere , Fisheries and Coast Guard .
Even though Cruz is from Houston , home of Johnson Space Center , there’sreason to believethat he ’ll continue his pursuit of trying to deflate the space bureau . Heck , just wait at all the dumb things he ’s said about scientific discipline in recent long time .
“ ‘ last disinterest ’ is Obamacare for the Internet ; the Internet should not work at the speeding of governance . ” – Ted Cruzon last disinterest
“ The last 15 years , there has been no recorded heating . obstinate to all the theories that they are expounding , there should have been warm over the last 15 years . It has n’t happened . ”- Ted Cruzon climate change
“ You do it , back in the ’ 70s — I remember the ’ seventy , we were told there was worldwide cooling . And everyone was tell planetary cooling was a really big problem . And then that faded . ” – Ted Cruzon climate change
“ You always have to be worried about something that is consider a so - called scientific hypothesis that fits every scenario . clime modification , as they have defined it , can never be disproved , because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder , whatever materialize , they ’ll say , well , it ’s changing , so it prove our theory . ” – Ted Cruzon climate change
“ I was disappoint that Bruce Willis was not available to be a fifth watcher on the dialog box . There in all probability is no doubt that really Hollywood has done more to focus attention on this issue than perhaps a thousand congressional hearings could do . ” – Ted Cruzon space threats
“ I wondered if at some point we were lead to see a tall gentleman in a mechanical breathing apparatus come forth and say in a deep vocalization say , “ Mike Lee , I am your founder ” … and just like in “ Star Wars ” movies the empire will assume back . ” – Ted Cruzduring his 21 - hour Obamacare address
“ The authorizing committees are free to lay their agency budget , and that includes NASA . ” – Ted Cruz when hetried to cut NASA funding in 2013(This one is more shuddery than stupid , since Cruz is now in charge of agency budget . )
“ Each day I learn what a scoundrel I am . ” – Ted Cruzon his attempts to defund Obamacare
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