Your Next Speaker

The next time the Democrats want to know why I can't take them seriously on national security, here's the answer, from the woman they would like to appoint as the next Speaker of the House...

"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.

(hat tip: Professor Bainbridge) Let me stop for a second and try not to throw up. Come January, there's a significant possibility that Nancy Pelosi would be two heartbeats from the Presidency. Yes, the speech is from 2003 -- but we already knew North Korea had nukes by then and only lacked a delivery system. Pelosi would essentially waive the white flag on defending ourselves from ballistic missles, two decades after President Reagan told Gorby to take a long walk off a short pier when asked to shut down SDI. For crying out loud, her constituents would be the ones in range of a Korean missile. Maybe I could just chalk this up to stupidity and go merrily along my way here in DC as crazy Kim turns the West Coast into a barren wasteland, but having Hollywood disappear would be offset by the loss of some good friends, not to mention the fact that he might hit Vegas as well. If Pelosi won't protect Las Vegas, what kind of American is she?

Better yet, Pelosi wants to rid the Earth of nukes forever. Does she have a magic wand of some kind? Or was she smoking something? Come to think of it, she is from Northern California.

The GOP probably deserves to lose the House majority -- partly as a headslap to return to conservative principles and partly because fresh blood is needed in DC. The only problem is, the Democrats are making a good case for keeping them in power, because I'd rather be alive and complaining about the government then dead because they failed to protect us.