Ted Cruz Now In Charge of NASA.... WHY?!

With the overtaking of the branches of government by the Republican Party this term, reassignments are an inevitable occasion. Ideally positions in power, such as the heads of Senate Subcommittees, would be given to members who have proper credentials and experience in the field that that subcommittee has reign over.

Now, that would be ideal, but government has never worked the way that we would consider to be logical. This precedent was unshaken by Texas Republican Ted Cruz, one of the most outspoken deniers of climate change and was solely responsible for NASA's two week shut down (while he tried to extend it's shut down to, you know, forever when he attempted to slash their budget in 2013), was put in charge of the Senate Subcommittee of Space, Science, and Competitiveness.

Not only did he attempt to swipe at NASA's budget which would have effectively crippled the space agency, he remains hypocritical on the matter by saying that it is "critical that the United States ensure its continued leadership in Space."

Well, that is all well and fine, but it would be hard for the United States to maintain Space leadership without a Space Agency. 

That is all without even touching the climate-change-denying side of Ted Cruz with a ten foot rod. It isn't uncommon (as a matter of fact, it's almost guaranteed) for a Republican to be against climate change, but Senator Cruz clings to the far extremes of his part on the matter.

He believes, not only is climate change not man made, but that it is not happening at all. He avidly denies the existence of the changing climate of Earth, despite these past 14 years containing 13 of the hottest years we have ever recorded.

That's not just sticking to your guns, that is pure blissful ignorance and disregarding of data, which is, as you may have guessed, not science!

I hope, for the sake of the progression of science in the United States, this trend does not continue and Senator Cruz takes this job extremely seriously.

That's all I have to say today, but I'll be back tomorrow.

"The good thing about science is that it's true, whether you believe it or not." -Neil deGrasse Tyson