Janet Napolitano is leaving her job as secretary of homeland security. Gosh, I wonder who might replace her...
In the run-up to the 2012 election, National Journal named New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Bill Bratton, and retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen as possible successors for Napolitano at Homeland Security if she were to step down. In the political world, former Senator Joe Lieberman is also a rumored possibility to take the job....Stop-and-Frisk Kelly is bad enough, but Lieberman? Seriously?
Laura Rozen explains:
many Dems don't like, but there's a case for Joe Lieberman to succeed Napolitano as DHS chief: easy confirmation, he's in charge when uhohs
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) July 12, 2013
Well, yeah, there's that.
And though it's a small step in the scale of things, it could also be the final straw, the act that finishes the job of alienating the liberal base that worked to elect Barack Obama twice. So we could just kick back and binge-watch SharkNado: The Series in 2014, secure in the knowledge that there's no need to pay attention to the midterms, because nobody's going to show up to vote Dem and Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell can start arranging their office swap now. Better to see that coming early, I suppose....
