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Go Janet. Go Janet! I'm certainly looking forward to a woman with common sense at the helm of the HS.

Moline -

I don't think clarification would be helpful. Try googling "heckuva job, Brownie" and figure it yourself.

Brooklyn Democrat:
"Not a job for a woman"...as if the men that have held positions in this Department have done such outstanding jobs. "Heckuva job, Brownie."
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Clarify what you mean by "Brownie".
Climing a mountain is a real qualification for DHS.
Don't know why she would be so proud of representing Anita Hill.

Moline, you may not be "old" chronologically, but you are "ancient" in that your ideas date back to the dark ages. The idea that no woman should be Secretary of State or Secretary of the DHS is so retrograde as to be laughable.

Posted by: DKNY | Nov 20, 2008 2:33:43 PM
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You can make fun of me all you want,
but if women had stayed home and raised their children we would be a lot better off. I just happen to be one that has said this about women, not just think it. This job is too tough for a woman..when the going gets tough she will lay in a fetal position and cry.

I have a great idea. Janet Napolitano should bring Janet RENO back to Washington, D.C., giving her a new job. Then, the two Janets could make regular visits to SNL, starring in their own SNL "Saturday Night Dance Fever"! Can you imagine the fun that male comedians would have, imitating the two Janets? In their spare time, these two ladies could join the LPGA and become women's golf stars, who just happen to be "straight workaholics". Seriously, choosing Napolitano as Secretary of Homeland Security is like choosing the fox to guard the henhouse! This woman is single-handedly responsible for doing everything that she can, to prevent the enforcement of illegal-immigration laws in Arizona. What has Napolitano ever done for Arizonans? I predict that Arizona's worst do-nothing nightmare is about to become America's worst do-nothing nightmare!

This Gov is heartless and with out compassion, when it came to balancing the budget. She cancelled a medicaid program for all SSDI members regardless of their fininical or medical needs. Even thought this was a cost share program; there was a monthy cost paid to the state by the SSDI persons. She took this away from those who could do nothing work wise it cover medical costs.

Oh she cancelled it with no warning or notice, I got the Notice 15 days AFTER the program was de funded.

Moline, you may not be "old" chronologically, but you are "ancient" in that your ideas date back to the dark ages. The idea that no woman should be Secretary of State or Secretary of the DHS is so retrograde as to be laughable.

"...policy decisions are public record"

I know. That isn't the section of her credentials that interest me. I need to know about her grasp of technology both advanced and mundane. Her policies will be Obama's policies. DHS is a procurement center and sponsor of technical specifications and standards. I want to know she won't be Chertoff standing in front of the cameras during Katrina waving a draft what wouldn't be implemented for the next three years.

DHS has to be a very hard nosed pragmatic agency because it is an operational agency. R&D is good but working systems are the nut of the job.

Moline -

"Not a job for a woman"...as if the men that have held positions in this Department have done such outstanding jobs. "Heckuva job, Brownie."

This is one tough, effective woman. She has survived breat cancer, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and represented Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. She was appointed U.S. Attorney in 1993, elected Attorney General of Arizona in 1998, and Governor in 2002 and 2006. In 2005, Time cited her as one of the country's five best Governors. She's a pragmatic, shrewd centrist who knows how to get things done and has not been afraid of irritating the left or right.

Good choice, Barack.

"So let's wait for a deeper analysis of her credentials."

Hum...remember Sarah Palin? Will her
credentials be analysed by the MSM also.
After all she is a governor, and governors don't have experience...

Yeah! Open borders for everyone! Bailouts for everyone! Free healthcare! Free $1k checks! Get your free stuff while we still have a country left!

Posted by: Concerned in OH | Nov 20, 2008 10:34:11 AM

I hope you and other partisan republicans are now enjoying your new role of pessimistic whiners.

Get comfortable you'll have this occupation for at least then next 8 years, while the rest of us put our heads together to find solutions to the problems caused partly by the last 8 years of failed Republican Presidential policy.

"So let's wait for a deeper analysis of her credentials."

Or, since she's a governor who's policy decisions are public record, you could not wait on your mind masters in the MSM and @0bama's campaign HQ to feed you your opinion and actually do your own research and analysis.

I'm sure you people prefer the former to the latter.

One hopes this isn't strictly a single issue appointment. DHS covers a lot of policy and systems ground including aspects of health, public safety and other procurement and oversight functions for infrastructure. Picking a cabinet level position based simply on the candidate's positions on illegal immigration would signal a remarkably shallow understanding of the job.

So let's wait for a deeper analysis of her credentials.

So because Bush is open-borders, that obviously makes it ok! Thanks for pointing that out, I had forgotten that Jorge Bush was open-borders. Now that you reminded me, I'm all of a sudden pro-open-borders too!!

Yippee! Open-borders for everyone!! Free healthcare for everyone!! Come on over soon-to-be Americans, get your free $1k while Richie Rich still has some blood left in his veins!

Moline, again what has Bush done to keep illegal immigrants out. I'm not talking about terrorists.

Posted by: Just Wondering | Nov 20, 2008 11:10:07 AM
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You are right, but I am not sure anyone
can secure the borders. Too much time has gone by and to many in this country. New schools are being built to accommodate the Mexicans coming into this country.
Buses line up each am at the border
towns and wait for the kids from Mexico to be brought in to go to the schools. So, if we are educating them here; what is the plan.

Moline, again what has Bush done to keep illegal immigrants out. I'm not talking about terrorists.

And whay exactly has Bush done to secure our borders. Seems to have been a low priority.

Posted by: Just Wondering | Nov 20, 2008 10:38:05 AM
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He must have done something right...no attack in the US since 9/11.

DKNY, I am a woman, and not an "OLD"
woman...that is a tough job and I
still say, not for a woman. And,
what about the astronaut that dropped
$100,000 of our tools in space just
in the past few days, that was a woman.
SOS should be a man also, the foreign
countries do not respect women, why
would they start by respecting a woman from the US. Yeah, we have had two women in that job; maybe that is why we are in such a mess with foreign affairs.
Sorry, but I will never agree with you, because I think allowing women to do a man's job has put this country in great peril.

Yeah! Open borders for everyone! Bailouts for everyone! Free healthcare! Free $1k checks! Get your free stuff while we still have a country left!

Posted by: Concerned in OH | Nov 20, 2008 10:34:11 AM

And whay exactly has Bush done to secure our borders. Seems to have been a low priority.

Moline, how were you able to post your entry from the 16th century onto this blog? Remarkable. FYI, women even operate these driving machines called "automobiles" now!!