More grown-up governance
by digby
Here’s another example of the GOP proving to the great middle of America that they are serious about governing:
The GOP’s Senate takeover means the chamber’s leadership positions will be filled with Republicans next year. That’s bad news for the environment: The Senate’s worst climate change denier, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, will likely chair the Environment and Public Works Committee. But it’s also bad news for science: Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another climate denier, may be next-in-line to become chair of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, which oversees agencies like the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
In a February interview with CNN, Cruz said he doesn’t think the Earth is warming.
“You know, you always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called scientific theory that fits every scenario. 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.”
Inhofe is a cretin who may not know better. Cruz has no excuse. He’s extremely well educated and not dumb by any means. He’s purely an opportunistic jerk who doesn’t even love his own children because what he’s really saying is that none of this matters because he’ll be dead before his policies burn up the planet.