I know we don't have the details yet, but how much do you wanna bet that this will be another example of a poorly planned, half-assed symbolic gesture to dampen criticism from Congressional Republicans for immigration reform legislation? 

By the way, whose National Guard troops are we talking about and how many?  So far, Texas is the only one promising troops, the governors of both California and New Mexico have said they're not interested if not dead set against it and while the governor of Arizona is interested there's still a contentious debate going on in the Arizona legislature over authorizing such a move.  Another question: if this is suddenly a national crisis and we can find money to truck National Guard troops in as "backups", why can't we find money to hire even more Border Guards?  Along that line, I hope these private contractors they keep talking about aren't the ones with itchy trigger fingers we pay $10-30,000 a month to provide security in Iraq. 

But then I tell myself not to worry, after all "... no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound--with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world".  Yep, get set for some good old fashioned political theater masquerading as prudent national policy... at least until some poorly trained weekend-warrior from Indiana accidentally shoots a young boy or something.