What Ted Cruz just said should scare anyone who wants rational Internet policy

Oh no worries, what kind of influence could someone as mindless and inflammatory as Ted Cruz possibly have?

> 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.[1]

Shit.

[1] - http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120180/climate-denier-ted...

this could be a Mad Libs with Ted Cruz

What Ted Cruz just said should scare anyone who wants rational [proper noun].

If Obama cured AIDS tomorrow, Cruz would decry it as pandering to a gay agenda.