Obama declares a state of emergency over the swine flu

  President Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, thus giving the federal government even more power.

  There has never been a more overblown crisis in recent memory that I can think of. During a slow news cycle the media trumped up this crisis and the national politicians have run with it creating a story where none existed and now we now have the president declaring a national emergency over an outbreak of the flu. This looks to me to be nothing more than a political move.

  With his healthcare reform bill floundering in congress the president is declaring an emergency in order to gin up support for his highest priority domestic policy issue. He hopes that by issuing this fraudulent national emergency that people will rally around his healthcare reform effort in the interest of stemming off a potential pandemic that does not exist.

  By declaring a national emergency he is hoping to create a crisis mentality in the nation that he can use in order to pass his reform bill. We must never forget that it was his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, who declared “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste — and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do before.”

  By declaring this national emergency Barack Obama is hoping to create just such a crisis in order to pass healthcare reform.  There is no state of emergency, there is no pandemic, there is no crisis, we are talking about the flu here. The only crisis facing the president is the fact that his healthcare reform bill is in peril and he is looking to save it.