You're right that they probably would use real force to stop him. But at very least, the rest of us would see it happen. This would not be the usual speechifying and interviews with Chris Matthews that only pundits really seem to care about. Watching real footage on TV of a sitting Governor being arrested only because he took action to save his state that the feds would not might actually serve to wake some people up.
I guess I'm growing very tired of the political arena and all the BS that is being shoveled onto our backs because of it. The oil spill, the border, welfare, etc. I'm just tired of all these issues being so...academic. Nothing is truly "real" to most of America. They see men in suits sitting on couches rambling on with the same platitudes and empty political talk on the the usual MSM interview shows. Watching the same old men chat with Katie Couric or stand being a podium reading some sterile speech off the teleprompter just isn't doing anything. No amount of CSPAN analysis is going to solve the oil spill. Men in coveralls lifting heavy stuff and getting dirty is. No commission or "comprehensive reform bill" is going to solve the border problem. Men with guns and the will to use them will. I know some amount of talk is necessary to get the ball rolling. I'm just tired of seeing nothing ever get beyond talk, interviews, speeches, and pundit analysis. That's why we need someone like Jindal. Someone who will say "forget all of your permit applications and checkboxes, I'm sending real people to go get their hands dirty solving this right now."
The US Government is getting downright Soviet in its ability to talk and talk about something but with no real action on anything ever taking place. I think the likes of Schumer, Waxman, Pelosi, and Reid really do think that the entire world consists of them sitting in committees shuffling papers back and forth.