Martial law is right for me!

The president said he saw things differently than he did as governor of Texas. "I didn't want the president telling me how to be the commander in chief of the Texas Guard," he said.

"But Congress needs to take a look at circumstances that may need to vest the capacity of the president to move beyond that debate. And one such catastrophe or one such challenge could be an avian flu outbreak."

I don't know how many of you have heard about this story, but the president has found a new reason other than hurricanes and looting to grant himself more power as commander and cheif. Now, he cites avian flu as a reason to give him the power to use the United States Military in roles of law enforcement in case of an outbreak of that particular strain of the flu virus. He wants to be able to lock down cities, people that are, in the case of an outbreak, believed to be infected. Reasonable, right?

"I'm concerned about what an avian flu outbreak could mean for the United States and the world," he told reporters during a Rose Garden news conference on Tuesday.

"One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move," he said. "So that's why I put it on the table. I think it's an important debate for Congress to have."