Okay. I appreciate that. So one person -- obviously with no ability to control the response to a manjor, national catastrophe -- is going to cause thousands to die from lack of food and water in the street and the federal government is going to stand by and watch it happen?
If you are going to act within the constitution, the Feds can't override a governor just because they are being a jerk.
Or at least not simply. With Bush, with the mythology about him from the left, it would be a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
I don't know how he could do it without provoking a constitutional crisis.
It literally has to. It literally takes an act of Congress to do otherwise.
Read the Posse Commitatus law. It's inconvenient - but it has teeth.