Hero Ted Cruz Will Save Us All From NASA Studying Our Climate
(and turd cruz is chair of the committee that oversees nasa!!!)
Ground Control To Major Ted
Hero Ted Cruz Will Save Us All From NASA Studying Our Climate
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JPL'S Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2
Ted Cruz is pretty darn annoyed with NASA these days, seeing as how it’s just been wasting a lot of taxpayer money studying the climate and foolishness like that. For heaven’s sake, everyone knows that NASA is supposed to be about space, and there is no climate in space. And that’s why he was ready to give a good talking-to to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about all these stupid satellites that NASA has looking down at boring old Earth and its atmosphere and oceans, instead of looking out at other, more interesting things that are far away. So Cruz, who chairs the subcommittee that oversees NASA, kicked off a hearing last Thursday by asking Bolden just why NASA is ignoring its key mission of doing science to things that won’t cause problems for the fossil fuel industry.
Oh, and what a fine loaded question Cruz had for Bolden; it was a question designed to show what a fraud the Obama administration’s budget request for NASA is, since it fritters away far too much money on Earth and climate science:
“I’d like to start by asking a general question: In your judgment, what is the core mission of NASA?”
Ooh, gotcha, Bolden. Because “climate” is definitely not one of the words in “National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” Oh, but the wily NASA guy (also Marine test pilot and real honest-to-god astronaut) was ready for the tricksy Cruz, yes he was. Noting that he went back and looked at the original legislation that set up NASA in 1958, Bolden answered, “Our core mission from the very beginning has been to investigate, explore space and the Earth environment, and to help us make this place a better place,” adding (and perhaps channeling LBJ ordering pants), “So that’s the nuts of it.”
Aha! But there’s nothing “core” about dumb old global warming, is there, Cruz fired back:
Well, there’s no doubt that there are multiple important priorities within NASA. But I would suggest that almost any American would agree that the core function of NASA is to explore space. That’s what inspires little boys and little girls across this country. It’s what sets NASA apart from any other agency, is the mission that has landed man on the moon, that has the potential to explore new worlds beyond our imagination.
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