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Ah NO Because the truth WILL get out even if the Dinosaurs will NOT report it. The Hate Bush Dinosaur media still does NOT understand that the President has VERY limited authority here. Bush CANNOT order the NG into Louisiana, Gov Blanco has to do it.

Bush can federalize Guard units for domestic insurrections "against the state" and few other selected reasons subject to the Militia clause of the Constitution...as he ahs done for overseas deployment. But domestically, to federalize the Guard troops is a bit tricky and there has been great resistance from the Guard and others to being federalized and removed from control of the Governor. The US Constitution clearly intended to give the States the power to manage their own disasters.. assumed the people would best trust and be served by their local and State govt, and assumed we would have competent Governors.

I am wondering if Bush did indeed work out a new plan for the defense and assistance to New Orleans very quickly, in the past 72 hours, and did federalize the Guard that arrived in force today. It seems so. All the Command now seems to be in the hands of federal and military commanders.

This would be a sign of complete failure of leadership and planning on the part of State and local authorities, and a reason for kudos to Chertoff, the President and others who have stepped in and taken charge under withering fire from liberals, the ignorant media, and the very State and local govt incompetents the Feds were forced to push aside...

"The Hate Bush Dinosaur media still does NOT understand that the President has VERY limited authority here."

They know, but they are counting on the folk to be ignorant, which they are, to call for W head on a stick!

Bush CANNOT order the NG into Louisiana, Gov Blanco has to do it.

I've read that numerous times here at FR. People outside FR don't care. They wanted Bush to do the right and best thing from the moment Katrina hit New Orleans, REGARDLESS of the law. They thought he was a cowboy who played by his own rules to get the job done. This is a big CF for Bush. I've talked to friends and family all over the US. They don't care about what Nagin or Blanco did or did not do beforehand or afterward. They care about why Bush hasn't come to the rescue of those people with the power of the entire federal government.