[Pearls Before Swine]

Just mobilize your National Guard and do it... this is now an invasion

I agree. But, can't Obama nationalize the guard, call it an emergency, and then order them to stand down and do nothing? Oh, he'd dress it up in rhetoric, but that's how he might respond, because once the States start to ignore him, the jig is up.

[JRandomFreeper]

Texas has a State Guard that is not tied to the feds, and can't be called up by Obama.

/johnny

[X-spurt]

That used to get one banned.

[tanknetter]

Yes, he can (assuming Perry uses the National Guard rather than state-exclusive resources).

But doing so will only serve to highlight the abject failure of his Administration in this matter ... reinforcing the perception of abject failure of his Administration in all other matters.

[Mr. K]

I think it would be in Texas’ interest to then ignore such orders...