Obama taps Janet Napolitano for DHS: Shamnesty wolf in enforcement clothing
The buzz has Barack Obama tapping Arizona Democrat Gov. Janet Napolitano for DHS Secretary.
On the surface, it may seem a promising pick. Napolitano made a few pro-immigration enforcement moves in her state — including declaring a border security emergency and backing some employer sanctions. She riled the open-borders lobby by signing a bill banning public funding of day labor centers.
But Napolitano’s heart lies with the shamnesty crowd. She vetoed a bill cracking down on phony matricula consular cards for illegal aliens and rejected efforts allowing more cooperation between local law enforcement and the feds. She opposes assimilationist measures on English language and ID requirements to prevent voter fraud; she supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal aliens.
In short, she’s a double-talker and double-doer who will ensure the immigration chaos status quo.
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WaPo:
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D), whose handling of immigration issues brought her accolades from fellow governors, is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to serve as secretary of homeland security, Democratic sources said late Wednesday.
Napolitano, 50, was an early supporter of Obama and was the only elected official tapped to serve on his transition team. She was reelected in 2006 to a second term as governor of Arizona, the home state of Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee in the race against Obama. Napolitano previously served as U.S. attorney and state attorney general for Arizona; she was the first woman in both of those posts.
Napolitano’s selection was made pending vetting, sources said, and was first reported by CNN.
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Stop right there. That is completely untenable.
Obama is doing everything he can to destroy our country. You can’t have it both ways on immigration. You can’t be for in-state tuition for illegals and say you are trying to oppose immigration. What part of ILLEGAL don’t these people understand?
On November 20th, 2008 at 8:42 am, JDinTX said:
It’s not just Obama, it’s the ruling class in Washington. Not a hair’s bit of difference between Bush’s policies or McCain’s or Obama’s in regards to illegal immigration.
Indeed: The difference is merely of speed, not direction.
Makes sense odumbo, appoint your top DHS spot to someone that has allowed unfettered access for the ongoing invasion of drugs and illegals into our country?
Since the election, for the first time in my entire life I am not very proud of my country.
“DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD.” God help AMERICA, God blessed ARIZONA… Our loss is your (chuckle) GAIN… Long live the WITCH!!!
Janet Reno redux
JDinTX said (#2):
Obama is not trying to destroy the country, any more than McCain tried to lose the election or Bush tried to ruin our reputation around the world. Obama, McCain, Bush, all loyal Americans doing what they think is right, but stuff just happens.
Ah, jeeeeez…
Ms. Napolitano: You can’t be sympathetic nor supportive of illegal immigrants AND claim to represent the interest of working-class Americans - there is no middle ground. Please decline the nomination-it’s the right thing to do.
Speaking of which, if you haven’t already done so, please do sign NumbersUSA petition to Pres-elect Obama:
http://www.NumbersUSA.com/petition
About the level of analysis we have come to expect from an Obamamoonie liberal. Illegal immigration does not “just happens,” it requires a willful neglect of border security and visa enforcement; which is exactly what the Napolitano appointment portends.
Obama does not love America. If he did, he wouldn’t be so hell-bent on changing America on a fundamental level; and he would have worn the damn flag pin.
Change??? Hope??? Just words??? PUUHHLLLEEEZZE!!! Filling the cabinet with every Washington insider that will be a “yes man” (or woman) to obama’s every bad idea that he can push or think of. Instead of a cabinet, they should be called the “Push People”. God, I hate this term, but I think he’s got a bunch of “house whities” feeling indebtedness for getting a position in this already failed administration.
This is what democrats voted for, but why does Obama want to piss off many in his own party?
Blame it on inexperience I guess.
Please. Not “illegal immigrants”.
“Humble Loyal Slightly Foreign-ish Nationals”
Thank you.
And besides which, criticism of Obama is the highest form of patriotism, right lgm? Or, has the left changed the rule on that. Like how the left changed the rule about smoking. It used to be the evilest, nastiest thing known to man. But now that the Dear Leader is a smoker, Smoking is okay when he does it.
More illegals, more murders, more excuses.
Being involved somewhat in conservative politics in Arizona I for one have been holding my breath that our Gov. would NOT be offered a ride out of Arizona on Obama’s back. I’m quite excited that we will be sending her off to D.C.
When my kids were growing up, I reminded them — there’s always a consequence for your actions. The result depends on whether you choose right or wrong.
Just as not making a decision, is making a decision, remember Mr. Obama, it’s not just Illinois that will suffer the consequence of your actions!
And they aren’t even in office yet. The Obama presidency is going to be very very very bad.
I wonder if he’s going to have to go outside to a designated smoking area after his forces occupy the White House, the way they force everybody else to do?
Yeah, right, that’s about as likely as Al Gore flying commercial.
The Rules the Elites Make apply only to peasants, not to themselves.
Hmmm…
Strangely suspicious that:
1. Obama and McCain meet on Monday.
2. McCain announces probably run for reelection in 2010.
3. McCain’s biggest potential competitor is given a spot by Obama that likely takes her out of the running.
I hope Obama got something good in return.
Thank you, Obama. Get Janet out of here and let us try to close the borders. Go Sheriff Joe!!! We’ve lost too many good and young to illegal immigrants driving drunk. (16-yo girl, Officer Figaroa(sp), just in the last few months.)
Seriously, all of us knew a long time ago the Immigration issue was going nowhere. same old same old indeed.
We have to fight from here and try to make a difference, they sure as heck aren’t going to from D.C.
The stupidty on this is astounding.
Sheriff Joe gets it, and he’s doing it quite simply wouldn’t you say?
ENFORCE THE LAWS
OMG…I bet Bill Richardson is livid.
Politics as usual in DC I’d say Chap..
scratchy scratch scratch scratch.
I don’t know why he would bother…Mccain and lindsey grahmnesty will spend the next 4 years bending over as far as they can for him.
they should switch parties.
lol paul, you’re right, haven’t seen him lately on the news either….
Looks like having his nose buried in Odopeys rump was a waste of time for him… lmao
Everytime Chairman 0 makes another appointment or policy statement, I get a little more optimistic about the GOP’s chances.
it’s good news to some degree..
AZ can get a new governor..
The useful idiots voted for change. What change!
I guarantee Arlen Specter will be in full reach across the aisle mode as well.
That’s why I’m sanguine about the possibility of the GOP being down to 40 seats. Would John McLandslide and Lindsey Grahmnesty filibuster a new Amnesty bill or tax increase? Would Arlen Specter or Olympia Snowe filibuster to save talk radio? Would John McLandslide and Olympia Snowe join a filibuster against offshore drilling.
No, we are in a one-party state as of January 20. However, with all the power comes all the blame. I used to think Obama might be able to muddle through, but I doubt that more and more each day.
Being a native of the state of Arizona, I think it would be a great move…to move Janet out of the state.
She has been pretty poor at running things. The immigration stuff is a total joke. When she was up for reelection, she did “act” tough on immigration.
She is one of the enviro Kool Aid drinkers.
Her departure will introduce change.
I know a lot of people who saw Fife as a bad, bad man, but before he was booted, we had a good reserve of cash. After his removal, each successor only depleted the funds more and more.
How did that one Four Seasons song go?:
“Bye-Bye, So Long, Farewell,
Bye-Bye, So Long”
And, oh by the way, how about the upcoming nomination of Eric Holder as the next United States attorney general.
While he served as deputy attorney general for Slick Willie Clinton, Holder was the key person who made the pardon of Marc Rich possible in the final hours of the Clinton presidency. Rich, a financier, in 1983 was indicted for evading more than $48 million in taxes, and accused of more than four dozen counts of tax fraud. He also was accused of running illegal oil deals with Iran during the 1979-1980 time period when Americans were held hostage in Iran.
During his last week in office, President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich, who had fled the U.S. during his prosecution and was residing in Switzerland. Clinton’s 11th-hour move, along with pardons of his half-brother, Roger, and former business partner Susan McDougal, outraged Republicans and Democrats alike. This pardon was “purchased” like an ice cream cone at Dairy Queen by Mark Rich’s ex-wife Denise with the hefty donations she had given to the Clintons and the Democrats.
Great! The mouse is now going to guard the cheese. Why not just appoint Juan Hernandez the Head of ICE? Instead of a fence, we’re now going to get a bridge.
Idiots!
Eric Holder was also one of the masterminds behind the SWAT team that raided and snatched Elian Gonzales to send him back to the Gulag.
Here in AZ we will gladly get rid of her … unfortunately she is no friend to those of us wanting to secure the border and stop the illegal invasion of our country … (BTW … J.D. Hayworth calls her “J-No” because she says “NO” to everything sensible …)
Assuming she goes to DC the Arizona Secretary of State, Jan Brewer, a really well respected Republican, becomes the new Governor of Arizona …
We will be as happy as the people of Arkansas when Billy Boy left for DC … remember … sometimes the only way to get rid of the bad management currently in charge is to get them promoted…
lgm (#8) Welcome back. (and now I duck from some of the commentors here):
You are right, sort of. I am trying to give these people the benefit of the doubts are you are saying. (I do not think that Pres. Bush ruined our reputation around the world particularly–with some of the leaders, but not the countries.) Unfortunately, some of the people (Pres.-Elect Obama, Senator Kennedy, for example) advocate policies that have been shown never to work (socialism) and show no respect for American traditions that have helped to make our country great (such as respect for private property and enforcement of borders). This makes us think that they are trying to destroy our country on purpose for their own reasons.
And this would be the same Janet Napolitano of the Arizona 9/11 memorial travesty, no? Heading up Homeland Security, huh? Figures.
Well, at least it wasn’t Bill Ayers.
Socky (#14), thanks for the link to the smoking piece by Kinsley. It will be interesting for the smoking cynics to see how the smoking of tobacco will be rehabilitated, even partially. Hey, this could be the one good thing in the election of The One!
How ironic. Napolitano has spent her whole tenure in Arizona saying things like “illegal immigration is a Federal problem.” I guess that won’t work anymore…
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This is fanTASTic news for AZ. We will have a new Republican Gov, and with the Republican gains in both the state House and Senate, we can finally get our $2 billion deficit under control. Plus we have Sheriff Joe. Things are looking up!
This is another example of “compassionate” policies that end up endangering us, like Gorelick’s wall.
I’m sure enforcement will now go to zero. The world (of terrorists) is watching.
So you blame it on incompetence instead of intention?
ECS
The more things change the more they stay the same…
Jamie Gorelick for FBI Director will be my favorite choice…
Arapaio, the Maracopa sherrif is the only choice that would make sense.
Oh no? Then he needs to do better than reappoint to office the very people who intentionally ignored the signs of 9/11 so they could devote their time to saving Bill Clinton his job.
My hunch is that Obama met with McCain to run Napolitano’s name by him, and to ask for his support whipping for her confirmation in the Senate. In return, he’ll support McCain’s immigration legislation…quid pro quo anyone?
errah, she is a political hack of the first order and will be as effective as that spineless worm chertoff. Wonder where that feckless aszhat will end up Januaty 21st. Probably some washington think tank. Yeesh . . .
How is hiring all Bill and Hillary’s former staffers and friends considered change?
Errah I presume with Marc Rich’s attorney Eric Holder being put in at AG that will pave the way for Jaime Gwhorelick to be appointed as a justice to the Supreme Court.
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Another million illegal voters?
Didn’t Obama campaign on a “change” platform? So why is he appointing all these Clinton cronies if he wants change? Seems to me like he’s going with the status quo.
Didn’t Obama campaign on a “change” platform? So why is he appointing all these Clinton cronies if he wants change? Seems to me like he’s going with the status quo.
Janet will fit in well with Obama’s “1984″ team. As an Arizonan, I’m so relieved to get rid of her, but I am horrified for our nation. Scary stuff. And to echo sugarandsass’s comment, GO SHERIFF JOE! Now you may have the support that Janet NEVER gave for you to crack down on the rampant illegal immigration in AZ.
The only “change” you will see will be the country renamed
The North American Union………
The banking bailout all part of the ruse…get ready for full scale eradication of the USA by political BUFFOONS
Just where are these illegals going to work during our economic crisis? How many landscape, building, and cleaning business are hurting now? How many people are going to be staying in hotels, eating at restaurants or patronizing the businesses likely to employ illegals? The santuary city next to me used to have the streets teaming with hispanics. Those same streets are now empty. For rent signs are appearing all over. Americans who have lost jobs will not put up with illegals remaining employed. I’m just thankful that the illegals didn’t get amnesty, because they’d be on welfare now while they waited to get citizenship.
What a cruel joke.
anti-Prop. 200
Napolitano?
Pray for this nation.
I’m surprised no one has picked up on the fact that Napolitano was none other than lawyer for Anita Hill when she tried to trash Thomas.
Also something everyone will have to learn on the national level about Napolitano is that you never every talk about her personal life….lol
Well we already knew the position of Homeland security wouldn’t be filled by a person who actually cares about American territorial sovereignty.
Take the USSR model for example, anybody could come be socialist, it was leaving that got sticky, sort of like if the mob runs the government.
We knew Tom Tancredo wouldn’t be offered the job, too competent.
Well said, I couldn’t be happier to see her go. I was looking forward to voting her out in 2 years, but she saved me the favor.
I agree, as a resident of Arizona (for now…I’ll eventually find my way home!), I’ll be happy to see her go because she’ll be replaced by a Republican.
I just hope Jan Brewer doesn’t turn out to be another Jane Hull.
She isn’t, by some chance, related to Judge Andrew Napolitano, is she? Might seem shallow, but I can see a possible family resemblance.
After Chuck Hagel’s rebuke of talk radio and ‘entertainer’ Rush Limbaugh,
I expect the RINO Senator to be the next FCC Chairman.
Judge Chertoff was just too tough on border enforcement for Obama, I guess.
Hagel will be the man to do for free speech what Gov. Napolitano will do for secure borders.
Swell. The idiot who allowed vast swaths of Arizona neighborhoods (including mine in Phoenix) to be over run by illegals will now get to do it for the whole country. Oh yeah, and an economy that’s billions in the hole.
Please do not slur our future citizens with the racist term: “illegal immigrant”
/sarc off
What actually qualifies Janet Napolitano for this position? Seems like a real stretch to move a governor to a cabinet security administration post.
In many places, like Los Angeles, they are on welfare and they are collecting unemployment.
This is one of the reasons that Los Angeles’s budget is ~2 billion upside down.
And dont forget ‘Aunti Zeituni Onyango’, do you think she is the ONLY illegal in that state collecting on the free housing benefits?
And the Republicans will do nothing to stop him.
Very good slp. I was thinking of sending them to J-No (Governor Napolitano)-she can feed and cloth them.
Good for Arizona-terrible for America. The next four years do not look promising. Note: many on the Right supported the Patriot Act to “keep us safe”. Now a President Obama has that power to define someone as a terrorist threat. Feel safer? lgm and IrishRose could well be your Community Organizer-Eyes of the Community.
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Is NOW the time for the Second American Revolution?
When I heard about her selection and researched her record, I was baffled why the MSM felt this was a good selection. Maybe it was a good selection for them….not for me.
They thought Uuhbama was a good selection, so another militant pro-deather that likes to run up huge deficits while also raising taxes at every chance yet still managing to go more in debt, an open borders nut, and fighting to remove our protections in the Bill of Rights is just another utopian candidate for the left.
Which is why AZ won’t miss her, bub-bye evil wench
/wave