Glenn Beck links swift Obama swine flu reaction to Sibelius appointment
Transcript (from MediaMatters):
BECK: Well, I will tell you this. There’s only two ways to look at, and we’re going to look at it both ways later on in this broadcast today and also tonight with some of the experts. There’s only two ways to look at this. Our government is moving wildly fast. Unlike anything we — I mean, we did the research last night, and we went back to the AIDS epidemic — all the way back, looking at all the different things. They’ve never moved this quickly.
So, that could be that because Barack Obama’s administration is so incredibly efficient, could be that they know that this is much worse than we think it is. Or, what was it Rahm Emanuel said, Stu? “A crisis is a horrible thing to waste.” Do you realize that we don’t have any of the Health and Human Services people? Out of the 19 appointments, he has appointed zero.
This could be to move his Health and Human Services person into the office rapidly. She’s supposed — she’s supposed to go through more confirmation hearings today, I think. She can be confirmed right out of the gate because of this swine flu. So don’t look over here, look at the swine flu, look at the swine flu, look at the swine flu. And she just goes right through the gate.
Or could it possibly be that we now have a government headed by (and largely composed of) people who believe that in times of crisis it’s the government’s job to actually respond constructively, rather than find ways to funnul more money into the pockets of the top 1/4% of the population and their corporate paymasters?
Nah.