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You have a total lack of understanding of basic US government and how it is set up and where responsibilities lay. My children understand better, but that is not amazing since I took the responsibility of schooling them myself and did not put them in a public school.

I have a masters in Political Science and am a retired USG bureaucrat with 36 years of service. I understand the way the "basic US government" works and how it is set up. I also understand the corporate culture, which is more concerned about turf and control than achieving a common objective. Chertoff and Brown are lawyers. They are all about process. Trading memos and getting the right paperwork signed are well and good, but once the crisis hit and its magnitude known, taking action is more important, especially when it involves saving lives. "

No matter you being upset, the feds can not take over unless asked. Republican governors in Mississippi and Alabama did not have trouble giving control of their state over to the feds the Democrat governor did. It is just that simple. It still took time to get into place in those states, the facts of logistics.

I don't accept it as a given that the feds can not take over unless asked." There comes a time when saving the lives of our fellow citizens takes precedence over the rules.