Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano Resigns!

Another cabinet member leaves. It will spark another partisan debate over the next pick.

While I haven't posted much yesterday, I know one thing I was concerned with was the trial of that idiot who on trial in the murder of Trayvon Martin. While the country's focused on the verdict, we saw something else happen while we were focused on the trial.

Edward Snowden, the American contractor accused of leaking secrets from the NSA is trying to seek asylum in the Russian Federation. The country is possibly giving him a reprieve of stay.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, over 50 people have died in a horrible train crash near the town Lac-Megantic. We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the victims of this horrible tragedy.

Now it seems like President Barack Obama is in need of a Homeland Security secretary. The first woman appointed to the position is resigning to take the helm of the University of California.

Janet Napolitano is leaving at the end of August. Her departure will now assure another partisan debate over who will fill the position. Assured that Republican gadflies Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) will stand in the way of confirmation.

With 46 Republicans and 52 Democrats with two independents in the caucus, it's unbelievably hard to get things done in the U.S. Senate. The House of Representatives is in control of the Republican Party. There's not much getting done there either. The Republicans continue to pass House bills in symbolic themes. The Democrats pass Senate bills in symbolic themes. Both can't satisfy enough members let alone the president.

This position will be filled hopefully.

Janet Napolitano (/nəpɒlɨˈtænoʊ/; born November 29, 1957) is an American politician. Napolitano is the first woman to serve as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, in office since 2009. Napolitano, a member of the Democratic Party, serves in the administration of President Barack Obama. Previously, she was the 21st Governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009. She was Arizona's third female governor, and the first woman to win re-election. Prior to her election as Governor, she served as Attorney General of Arizona from 1999 to 2002. She was the first woman and the 23rd person to serve in that office. Napolitano is the 1977 Truman Scholar from New Mexico.

Napolitano is the fourth person (including an acting Secretary) to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security, a post that was created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Forbes ranked her as the world's ninth most powerful woman in 2012.

In 2008, she was cited by The New York Times to be among the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States.

Napolitano announced she will leave her post at the end of August 2013 to become the first woman to be President of the University of California system.