MORE CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN - AT 7:36 A.M. ET:  Another example of the new, bold executive leadership that has arrived in Washington   to assist The One transform us into perfection:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A proposed government plan to use National Guard troops to help stem Mexican drug violence along the southern border is stymied by disagreements over who will pay for the soldiers and how they would be used.

Ordered by President Barack Obama in June to help secure the border with Mexico, the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security drafted a $225 million program to temporarily deploy 1,500 Guard troops to supplement U.S. Border Patrol agents.

The two agencies are wrangling over how to structure the deployment, but the primary sticking point is the money, according to senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

COMMENT:  This could be cleaned up in a minute by one firm phone call from the White House, or maybe a beer get together on the White House lawn.  But apparently the call hasn't been made and the get together hasn't been scheduled.  This week the president is meeting with the president of Mexico.  Wonder what our southern pal thinks about the executive competence of his amigo up north.

August 12, 2009