For possibly giving them a Republican governor:
Should Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama’s pick for homeland security chief, be confirmed as expected by the Senate, Napolitano will need to step down from her current position as governor of Arizona.
The state has no lieutenant governor, and its laws dictate that the governor, who is a Democrat, be replaced by Secretary of State Jan Brewer – a Republican.
The Associated Press reports that Brewer, who would be governor through 2010, “had a reputation as a fiscal hard-liner and conservative on social issues while a legislator in the 1980s and 1990s, so her taking over the governorship would mean a new approach from Napolitano’s direction.”
There are plenty of good things about the Obama Administration – Obama, Biden and Hillary are out of the Senate; Napolitano is out of Arizona; Emanuel is out of the House…the benefits just keep rolling in. With a little luck, Obama will appoint so many senior Democrats than when his liberal Administration crashes and burns, it will gut the Democrats for a generation.