Those numbers above represent Favorable/Unfavorable/Don’t Know in the latest Rasmussen poll, and while Rasmussen itself notes that:
At the time President Obama nominated her for the Homeland Security post in early December, 43% had no opinion of her. Since that time, her favorable ratings have remained constant, but her negatives have increased. That’s fairly typical for politicians as they get better known.
…it’s still not what you would call ‘good’ news – at least, if you’re the sort of person who worries about whether people are still liking Secretary* Napolitano enough. For added amusement, check out this Hill article (“Napolitano splits the GOP“) and try to figure out, precisely, how the GOP has been ‘split’ on the Napolitano controversy…
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PS: President Obama tapping Napolitano for Homeland Security probably ensured that the GOP kept the Arizona Senate seat in 2010 – but I never really thought that it might wreck her career, too…
*Have we come up with a way to easily distinguish between the Departments of Homeland Security and Health & Human Services? Are we calling the latter DHSS or HSS DHHS or HHS now? I should know this; really, I should.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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They found someone to fall on his sword for her
Steph C (Diary) Friday, April 24th at 9:54AM EST (link)but I don’t think it’s going to change her ratings much. The report is still released and still an assault.
HS replaces intel official
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Great catch, Steph C
JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Friday, April 24th at 5:44PM EST (link)I’ve been waiting to see who’d be the sacrificial lamb for the DHS memo. Interesting that he is, of course, an appointee of the prior administration. Heck, I could have ghost-written this story a week ago and let them just plug in the names once they found their victim.
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