[uberPatriot]

I never thought it would come to this that I would want the federal government to have the means to overrule a governor... but I think they need a mechanism where the federal government can consult neighboring governors to get a consensus of the region and overrule an individual governor in a natural disaster or the like.

Actually, the mechanism was already put in place by the President: The National Response Plan.

The plan includes the following:

Standard procedures regarding requests for assistance may be expedited or, under extreme circumstances, suspended in the immediate aftermath of an event of catastrophic magnitude.

[Siobhan]

Is there any exploration of what "extreme" means?

Perhaps this had to happen so the next time, this could be invoked with "You don't want another New Orleans, do you?"

Thanks very much for the link.