Ted Cruz is named Chair of the Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness. This can't be good.

"Guess who's in charge of that sciencey stuff bitchez?"

Courtesy of the Chicago Sun Times:  

What’s the future of space and science funding in the United States? 

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will help shape it after being named the chair of the Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, which oversees overall science and NASA funding. 

And that may be bad news for NASA — and scientific research altogether — considering Cruz has previously tried to slash NASA funding, even though in 2013, he said “it’s critical that the United States ensure its continued leadership in space.” 

Cruz also has some very specific views on climate change. 

“Contrary to all the theories that — that they are expounding, there should have been warming over the last 15 years,” Cruz said, according to CNN. “It hasn’t happened.” 

He’s also called climate change a “so-called scientific theory.” 

“You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario,” Cruz once said, according to CNN. “Climate change, as they have defined it, can never be disproved, because whether it gets hotter or whether it gets colder, whatever happens, they’ll say, well, it’s changing, so it proves our theory.”

I hate everybody right now. 

It's simple. On election day you simply get up out of your bed, drive to your local polling place, and VOTE TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY"S FUTURE OUT OF THE HANDS OF IDIOTS LIKE TED CRUZ!

I'm sorry for shouting. It's just so...so....so very disappointing.

We were planning to go to Mars. Now with Cruz in charge we will be lucky to progress past the 18th century.