Texans In Congress Are Going To Make Things Difficult for NASA
Boehner defectors booted from panel, The Hill
“Boehner was elected to a third term as Speaker with 216 votes on Tuesday, with 25 Republicans defecting in a failed attempt to force a second ballot. One of the defectors was Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), who says he’s already suffering retribution. Weber, who voted for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) for Speaker, was originally slated to be the sponsor of a noncontroversial Science, Space and Technology Committee bill that reached the House floor this week. The measure establishes a Department of Energy research program on low-dose radiation.”
Keith’s note: Meanwhile Rep. Randy Weber(R) TX-14 who represents areas around JSC and sits on the House Science Committee, has gone out of his way to anger both House leadership and the White House. Weber’s Tweet last night doesn’t help things. This is not a recipe for being in a position to positively affect budgets for an agency in your neighborhood. Weber even managed to offend Hitler by spelling his first name wrong.
NASA Defunder Now Sets NASA’s Agenda in The Senate, earlier post
It’s an alternate, acceptable spelling of Adolf.
This guy invoked Godwin’s Law. What a moron.
I did not understand the reference, for those who don’t here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…
I see Weber’s tweet comparing Obama to Hitler has now been deleted.
So now, the science & people of the state suffer because this guy voted his conscience (or bruised an ego).
They are suffering because they elected him. They voted him in because of his views and he acting in accordance with his record. There’s no persecution here, only consequences.
Correct. He preferred Gohmert, for Pete’s sake! And if you think a House under Boehner is bad, Louie has some real surprises for us.
No one with even the slightest remnants of critical thinking skills votes for Gohmert.
There are powerful people in Congress who aggressively oppose anything they perceive as associated with the Obama administration, without even considering its actual content. It’s always easier to create hostility than to build cooperation.
To be fair, the polarization of Congress has been happening for a couple of decades, so it’s not a new phenomenon. With that said, the Tea Party has given polarization and all new edge and has driven reasonable Republicans to take untenable positions in order to protect their seats.