Here’s an excerpt from a 2003 press release from Nancy Pelosi’s office illustrating why a Democrat-controlled Congress led by people like Pelosi is a scary, scary thing. 

...by shredding the ABM Treaty and flirting with the unthinkable – ‘usable’ battlefield nuclear weapons – the Bush Administration turns the clock back on three decades of arms control.

“The United States must not create new nuclear weapons and ignite new arms races. As the only nation ever to use nuclear weapons, we have a moral obligation to be a leader in ridding this scourge from the face of the Earth forever.

“The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.

“What we need is a strong nonproliferation policy with other nations to combat the most serious threat to our national security and to the safety of the world – weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists who would smuggle them into our cities.

Meanwhile, in the last six months North Korea has test-fired several intercontinental missiles supposedly capable of delivering a nuclear payload and has detonated a nuclear bomb (though, admittedly, the jury is still out on that last one).

If we put Pelosi and company in charge come November they’re going to have this country hiding from the rest of the world behind our borders and largely defenseless against the type of threats North Korea and Iran pose to us.