Mark Udall: STILL the Candidate to Save the Planet from Destruction by Asteroids

Every once in awhile we work to write something explicitly nice about our least preferred candidate in the U.S. Senate race, Mark Udall. This is the most recent example.

On the national security front, it seems Democrat Senate candidate Mark Udall is still honing his reputation as a warrior against incoming asteroid invasion. As the Bad Astronomy blog points out, today is the 100th anniversary of a damaging asteroid blow to Earth. But who is the hero we can count on to save us from future disaster?

So I congratulate those who study these killers, and who look to our future....And I especially stand up and point to Congress — including my own Representative Mark Udall — which has the foresight to mandate that NASA look into the dangers from the Near Earth Asteroid Apophis.

Mark Udall may indeed be the best-equipped candidate in this race to protect us from destruction by asteroids.

Mark Udall's Policies: Leaving Us "Vulnerable to an Attack"

Over at View from a Height, Joshua plies his typically keen insights on the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. He begins his argument this way:

Mark Udall - a good, patriotic American - is a threat to national security.

And concludes more precisely:

Mark Udall's policies leave us both more vulnerable to an attack, and more vulnerable to the effects of that attack.

Read the whole post - titled "Mark Udall, Natural Gas, Iran, and You" - and see another instance of how good intentions often don't translate to good policy.

But if you're Mark Udall, where do you find time to focus on good policy when you're busy working on your golf game?