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I was grousing below<\/strong> about\u2013among other things\u2013being cold in my house<\/a> as we try to keep the energy bills down.<\/p>\n

Then I saw this picture<\/em> of our First Lady, Michelle Obama, wearing a killer vintage dress she got at a thrift shop<\/a> for a couple grand:<\/p>\n

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Now, I don\u2019t begrudge anyone<\/em><\/strong> who wants to wear one of those classic, elegant, full-skirted, Grace Kellyesque creations from the 1950\u2019s, and it looks wonderful on Mrs. O. But as I sit here wearing heavy socks, long sleeves and a shawl, I can\u2019t help wondering why I\u2019m not seeing goose bumps on those fabulous, ever-naked arms!<\/em> I begrudge her the warm room temperatures that allow her to wear it!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing that the Obama\u2019s are not subject to quite the sort of stringent home-heating rules that we\u2019re following over here.<\/p>\n

I wonder if it\u2019s still \u201chot enough to grow orchids\u201d<\/a> in the Oval Office?<\/p>\n

I guess when you\u2019re not paying the bill for the heating oil, yourself, you don\u2019t care what the thermostat says.<\/p>\n

But you know, when you\u2019ve declared a 7-year moratorium on all new offshore oil drilling, you\u2019re putting oil shale development off-limits<\/a> and there are no immediate plans to build nuclear energy plants\u2026you could at least pretend you\u2019re shivering along with the rest of this mean, cold country.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong>
\nSteven Crowder looks at why we\u2019re not allowed to be warm<\/a>. It\u2019s the \u201cCo2? Is that right?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"