Posted on 01/12/2015 9:11:21 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Following the ratification of Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) as chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committtee last week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was named chair of the Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, where he will oversee NASA and science programs.
Appointed Jan. 8, Cruz is expected to be confirmed to the new role by the end of the month as one of many changes to the new Republican-controlled Congress. But the Republican senator's words and actions during his time in office have painted him to be a far cry from an advocate for the sciences, leaving many concerned about the future of space and science funding.
Cruz's infamous hours-long speech in September 2013, led to a 16-day government shutdown barring 97 percent of NASA employees from appearing for work. Interns to the agency were temporarily displaced when the NASA-provided housing was closed during the shutdown, and many have said the agency suffered lasting damage due to the freeze....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
****
Ted Cruz, Longtime Foe Of JUNK Science, Will Oversee NASA And Science In New Congress
Hey Huffpo journalists, let’s debate some science.
I’m ready anytime, along with thousands more of us who actually have physics/math/engineering degrees and who have actually produced things that WORK.
Be prepared to have your Obamaholes crammed up your Obamaholes, idiots.
Obama gave directions that NASA’s mission was to praise and help MUSLIMS!!! Anyone else remember that??
facts are not important to leftists
As soon as I saw HuffPo as the source of this nonsense, I knew Bandini was being spread...
Cruz is an opponent of the bastardization of “science” which has held NASA hostage to political correctness.
NASA, DOD, and their contractors are not free to express their fact based opinions of Congressional and White House policy.
They will not bite the hand that feeds them.
If somebody wants them to build a satellite to measure something, they will build it.
The fact that somebody lies about the meaning of the data is a different story.
The current support from the Left for NASA, which has not always been a hallmark of the Left, has two main sources - a knee jerk support BECAUSE it’s Obama’s NASA, and a knee jerk support for NASA as part of a knee jerk support for “science” that amounts to a form of support regardless of a dysfunctional program (just like it does for “education”).
The controlling issue is that many “scientists” are on the Left and their lobbying among their co-political-faithful amounts to nothing other than lobbying for support for themselves, personally as support that does not question what they are doing. Which is typical of the Left where all answers are already known and you are not supposed to think independently.
The comments at the article show how screwed we are as a country. I don’t think these people even realize what Obama has done to NASA, including the number one priority for NASA to do Muslim outreach. These people are the very definition of low information voters. I don’t do Facebook, but could someone that does go over there and post something sensible?
I didn’t realize NASA still had a space program. I thought the Obama regime had changed their mission to one of Muslim outreach.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/nasas_muslim_outreach_106214.html
I guess you could call that liberal word squeeze.
Add so many unnecessary anti-republican fillers as possible into a sentence before making some kind of "point".
And so of course Ashley is going to lecture all of us about Science.
I once headed a project that built an antenna for the ISS. It was maybe 20K in total parts and some engineering and testing. By the time it was all over, the bill was $1M - all because of the BS and paperwork.
NASA is just the straw man — this is actually about the global warming hoax.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3245785/posts
Hmmmmm ..?? Maybe he asked for that assignment .. in order to learn what he doesn’t know about NASA or space science in general (even though his state is very involved in space). He’s a very intelligent person .. and I rather believe he’s playing CHESS while the rest of them are playing paper dolls.
I’ve personally never heard Ted Cruz utter an unkind word about NASA or science in general. So, this subject just may not have interested him - and he was involved with other pursuits .. and since there is so much activity taking place with NASA and space science .. it just might afford him the opportunity to be on TV a lot ..?? While .. it also gives him on-the-job information about what’s going on in space exploration.
People are so short-sited .. they never look beyond the end of their nose.
Regarding Cruz and NASA, please consider the following side note.
I enjoyed following NASA on TV when growing up. But it remains that NASA, like so many other federal spending programs, was established outside the framework of the Constitution, the states never amending the Constitution to authorize the feds to tax and spend for space exploration purposes.
So until patriots who want to see NASA continue its mission wise up to what’s going on and work with state and federal lawmakers to successfully propose a NASA amendment to the Constitution, it’s best to let NASA remain mothballed, imo, to comply with the constitutionally limited federal government that the Founding States had intended.
In fact, consider that Obama’s mothbolling of NASA was actually the right thing to do under the Constitution.
With all the worldwide emphasis on "freedom" today, is such skepticism a bad thing, or might it be that Cruz's "skepticism" is directed toward coercive government, now science?
Hear Thomas Jefferson:
"Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food.Sounds like Jefferson's concern about "fallible" human beings, organized into powerful political groups, with "private as well as public reasons" for using "coercion" to force other human beings into uniformity of opinion is a concern which is both legitimate and in keeping with the idea of liberty."Government is just as infallible, too, when it fixes systems in physics. Galileo was sent to the inquisition for affirming that the earth was a sphere; the government had declared it to be as flat as a trencher, and Galileo was obliged to abjure his error. This error however at length prevailed, the earth became a globe, and Descartes declared it was whirled round its axis by a vortex. The government in which he lived was wise enough to see that this was no question of civil jurisdiction, or we should all have been involved by authority in vortices. In fact the vortices have been exploded, and the Newtonian principles of gravitation is now more firmly established, on the basis of reason, than it would be were the government to step in and to make it an article of necessary faith. Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desireable? No more than of face and stature. Introduce the bed of Procrustes then, and as there is danger that the large men may beat the small, make us all of a size, by lopping the former and stretching the latter." - Thomas Jefferson
That legitimate concern is of special note when one considers the billions of dollars of wage earner dollars which are confiscated by those "fallible" persons who exhibit "bad passions" when challenged on their unyielding policy positions which impact the lives of their fellow citizens.
This fercockt gonif found eight things:
8 Dumb Quotes About Science From New NASA Overseer Ted Cruz
http://gizmodo.com/8-dumb-quotes-about-science-from-new-nasa-overseer-ted-1678965577
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.