That would be my former governor, Janet Napolitano. My favorite local talk radio host, former Congressman JD Hayworth, calls her "J-No," for her refusal to enforce either our nation's immigration laws or secure Arizona's southern border. (Yet, Barack Obama is asking her to oversee the entire country's security. This is going to be a fun four years.) But Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell added a new significance to the name J-No: Janet No-Life.
The Phoenix New Times, a moshpit of moonbat leftists who think J-No is too tough on illegal immigration, in that at least she recognizes the legality of some of the anti-illegal immigration propositions that continue to be passed by Arizona voters, speculates on Rendell's thinking:
Now Campbell Brown, who has always been my favorite Muppet character, by the way, went off on how this was a sexist comment and that it was full of assumptions about how women are treated versus men, and how single people get the short end of the stick work-wise, yadda-yadda-yadda. Rendell has since explained that he meant no offense, and that he would have said the same thing about Janet if she were a man...
Yet, Rendell's observation that Napolitano has "no life" and "no family," has an underlying assumption to it that should be familiar to anyone who's witnessed Napolitano's political rise in Sand Land. It could only have been clearer had he also said, "And she likes to wear checked sport coats and guest coach a women's pro-basketball team." This particular implication of Rendell's remarks was only slightly more subtle than that of Kristen Wiig's mannish impersonation of Napolitano on a recent broadcast ofSaturday Night Live.
Janet's sexuality is an issue, I believe, but not for the reasons enumerated by conservative pundit Debbie Schlussel. I don't know that she could be blackmailed over it, as Schlussel supposes. Actually, I think it speaks more to Napolitano's personal hypocrisy and cold-blooded careerism, as a Democratic pol who's had to chart a course for herself in a largely right-wing state.
Of course, there's no way to know for certain if Napolitano is in the closet or not. She has denied it in the past, and I suspect that if she is closeted, she will remain so indefinitely, as she probably wants to come back to Arizona and run for U.S. Senate someday. But you can expect the Rendell-esque comments and guessing to continue when it comes to Napolitano. And Wiig's parody of her, may in fact become a running one. Kinda like Janet Reno was for Will Farrell back in the day.
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