WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump’s choice of a tea party congressman to run NASA. It’s an unprecedented party-line vote for the head of the normally nonpartisan space agency.
The vote was 50-49 to confirm Oklahoma Republican James Bridenstine, a Navy Reserve pilot. Bridenstine will be NASA’s 13th administrator.
Of his three predecessors, two were nominated by Republicans, and all won unanimous approval.
A procedural vote Wednesday initially ended in a 49-49 tie, before Arizona Republican Jeff Flake switched from opposing to supporting Bridenstine.
Democrats against Bridenstine dislike his outspoken divisiveness, his past rejection of mainstream climate change science and his lack of space experience. But republicans praised him as a war hero.
Well, makes it so much easier to have a flat earth believer in charge of NASA.
Reach for the stars? Hell no.
Now it’s reach for the edge…
FIFY!
The GOP is run by men who avoid soldiering at all costs and who fetishize the capabilities of soldiers.
That last charge is not true at all!
It’s been widely reported that, when Bridenstine was in college, he took up space.
That independent, anti-Trump stalwart, Jeff Flake.