Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano met with about 100 people in a garage in Havre yesterday to talk about Northern Border security. Montana’s two U.S. Senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester, tagged along for the media attention.

By the way, it was a garage at the Havre Border Station – not a parking garage or someone’s two-car garage.

Sadly, I don’t think too many of my sample questions from my commentary were asked. Oh well. The media were all over this visit like flies on a dead carcass; stories and photos galore fill the web this morning.

According to the headline from the Associated Press, Napolitano said the problem with the border crossing at Whitetail was “solvable.”

We don’t really get any indication what “solvable” means in Secretary Napolitano’s terminology.

She also blamed Canada for not telling the United States that they were closing their side of the port. Nice diplomatic relations there, Janet.

By the way, she did all this from Havre, Montana, which is about 300 miles from the Whitetail Port.

Many folks believe she should have actually visited the Port of Whitetail to see for herself what her agency was spending $8.5 million on, but apparently she did not make it there.

We do know that the construction there has been halted due to public pressure, the media and bloggers’ attention to the pork that was wasted on the Port – pork that was applauded by Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester – until they heard from Montanans who have grown tired of excessive spending by the Federal Government.

Finally, Montana’s junior United States Senator, Jon Tester, made a very shrewd observation and was quoted saying, “It’s no secret that 9/11 changed everything.”

Lord help us…