It’s been widely reported that President Obama is having a bipartisan Super Bowl party tonight at the White House. Less known was the emergency rescue plan to respond to the chicken wing shortage that was on the verge of causing riots in western New York and other areas around the nation in the lead-up to tonight’s game. Stephen Colbert reported on this potential disaster the other night in his interview of Richard Lobb of the National Chicken Council.

In his first major crisis of his presidency, President Obama met earlier this week with his National Security Advisor, James Jones, Mr. Lobb, and several cabinet members to devise a plan to locate chicken farms in the United States and prevent mass protests that authorities feared may have turned violent. The President then signed an executive order to tap the requisite chickens in the Strategic Chicken Reserve mentioned by Colbert. Happily, the chicken wing depression of 2009 seems to have been averted and millions of Americans will be able to eat wings, celery, and ranch dressing tonight without any disruption.