Stupid congressperson of the month: Cynthia McKinney (D-Conspiracy)

From here; the link will probably close soon, so I'll copy the entire story:

A Member of Congress is expressing “grave concerns” over NASA’s Project Prometheus nuclear rocket program.
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, representing the 4th District of Georgia, is spearheading an effort to find like-minded lawmakers to question the building and deployment of “a nuclear propulsion rocket” – and to protect the public “from the potential of a catastrophic nuclear accident posed by the Prometheus Project.”
In a “Dear Colleague” letter dated May 5 to other members of Congress, Representative McKinney is seeking the support of Members of Congress “for shifting Federal funding from the development of nuclear propulsion systems to research and development for solar and other alternative energy systems that can support our space program.”
McKinney has also prepared a letter for co-signing by her colleagues addressed to new NASA chief, Michael Griffin. “If NASA insists on pursuing this dangerous idea,” the correspondence requests that the Environmental Impact Statement for Project Prometheus also address the military application of the nuclear space work.

Damn, this is a retarded congresswoman (D-Conspiracy) (nice article). First off, the Prometheus Project has no intention of using "nuclear power" in the way that most people understand "nuclear power". Rather, the Project has simply determined that placing a few ounces of something radioactive on a spaceship – and not doing anything to that radioactive substance – can provide a wonderful amount of energy, because radioactive substances decay naturally (they release energy when they decay). There will be no nuclear reactor on any spaceship, despite what Stupidia McCrackhead claims.
But, lets follow McCrackhead's beliefs for a bit, and see where we get. First off, if some 'nuclear disaster' actually releases radiation into space, astronauts may be required to wear protective suits. Can you imagine the horror? Astronauts required to wear suits to protect them from the dangers of being in space! Oh wait, they already have those, something to do with a complete lack of atmosphere and death from decompression. Still, the currently-existing suits would need some protection from radiation, wouldn't they? Actually, they already have that, because the sun emits radiation – visible light is a type of radiation, in fact. Ironically, Stupidia thinks solar energy would be non-radioactive, and thus safe. In truth, such methods only use the radiation that is provided by the sun. Because earth and the sun are some 95ish million miles away, solar panels can't collect that much energy. A block of a radioactive element can provide similar types of energy in much greater abundance, and with the same efficiency no matter how far the craft is from the sun.
Since radiation in space may be harmful, as Chucklewit here suggests, humanity should undertake a project to stop all that radiation that the sun emits. Don't worry about the fact that Earth will go dark and the solar system will be completely devoid of energy and all life on earth will die either of extreme cold (-400 or so degrees farenheit) or starvation because all plants die without some source of light. No, what's far more important is stopping the sun's Rays-O-Death. Humanity will rejoice in the hypothermia and desolateness of a solar system without the radiation that is the source of all energy on this planet.

Yes, my fellow humans, we must seek self-extinction in order to protect ourselves from the catastrophic radiation that is emanating from the sun.