Ted Cruz is know as a budget slasher, but he wants to get NASA back on track. The Obama administration has wasted
NASA resources with Muslim outreach and programs to try and support the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis.
February 23, 2015 If Ted Cruz is NASA's Grim Reaper, he doesn't talk like it.
To
hear the new chairman of the Senate's Space, Science, and
Competitiveness Subcommittee talk about NASA is to hear none of the
budget-slashing zeal that comes out when he talks about, say, the IRS.
Instead, he talks at length about putting more Americans in space and
sending them farther than ever before. He gushes about the agency that
has "excited the spirits of every person in this country, every boy and
girl."
NASA,
Cruz says, needs saving. And if doing so provides him with another
cudgel to batter the Obama administration, well, it's no surprise that
he's eager to have that fight. And, yes, he has seen the headlines:
"Climate
Change–Denying Ted Cruz Will Oversee NASA." "Oh dear, they've put Ted
Cruz in charge of NASA." "Ted Cruz's control of Senate science panel
triggers anxiety among some."
The
potential 2016 presidential contender laughs off such skepticism as
typical partisan attacks, then quickly launches into one of his own. "I
am deeply concerned that the Obama administration has undervalued space
exploration, has diverted NASA from its core priorities," he says. "We
need to get back to the central mission of NASA."
In
Cruz's mind, President Obama has spent too much of the agency's
resources studying the planet we already inhabit, rather than focusing
its missions on the "infinity and beyond" objectives that have the
potential to captivate Americans. And while this argument will get
plenty of camera time when Cruz first gavels in the panel on Feb. 24,
it's probably unrealistic to expect the fireworks shows that have
defined other committees' hearings—or any immediate changes to NASA's
plans. Keep on reading...
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