[ransomnote]

Chris Martensen says that the Bush 'regime' (which I take to mean he is probably not a republican!)had also eroded the rights of states on this matter before Obama's sweeping executive order came along. I am just playing catchup and didn't see this EO listed in the search results of Freerepublic. Anyone have a link or two to share that they found informative on this subject? Thanks. Note I had to cut out relevant text to make Chris M's text fit the body of thread limit.

[blueplum]

all I can offer up is this link to the EO itself:
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2010.html

[thouworm]

Background threads:

President Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Council of Governors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2426386/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2426269/posts

[Erik Latranyi]

First, the author gets this all wrong. There is no means of getting to a regional governor in this. There is one council, consisting of 10 governors, no more than 5 from any one political party.

The object here is to coordinate National Guard deployment with the military and with Homeland Security. We are using the Guard more than ever before and they get pulled in different directions.

While there is little or nothing to trust in President Obama, I see nothing overtly dangerous here.

Right now, there are bigger fish to fry than creating conspiracies where none exist.

[seemoAR]

This is nothing new. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) nationalized the Arkansas National Guard in Little Rock 43 years ago.