Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to Head Department of Homeland Security - Welcome to Arizona's Problem, America

CNN says Janet Napolitano is Barack Obama's choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and my source at Capitol Hill confirms it. The Governor's office neither confirms nor denies the story.

A couple ways to look at this one. First off, it's a tremendous positive for my state of Arizona. Napolitano has helped bankrupt our local government, yet she is somehow the only electable Democrat in the state when it comes to national office. The loss of Napolitano almost guarantees that Arizona will retain its two Republican Senate seats for the near future.

However, Arizona's gain is America's loss. The new person in charge of homeland security has failed miserably to protect her own state from foreign invasion on a massive level. The fact that Obama could select someone who is perhaps America's worst offender when it comes to homeland insecurity says more about his future amnesty plans than any speech and any denial he could ever make.

I had been pleasantly surprised that Obama has been naming ex-Clintonites to top level positions. I never thought I would think, let alone say, anything like that before. But when you are expecting the worst, the merely bad brings a sigh of relief.

But the kiddie games come to an end with the selection of a Governor who not only refuses to do anything to protect her own state's border, but also fights the efforts of the one man in the state government who actually does something to uphold immigration laws, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, America's Toughest Sheriff.

A nation will soon come to know Janet Napolitano. She had been Arizona's problem, and that was problem enough. Now she is America's problem.