We were promised transparency and we should demand it. Here’s Obama’s policy:
We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.
But now we have this:
WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat. “He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.
The answer is simple. Obama promised “‘unprecedented measures,’ including Internet postings, to allow the American people to see where the streams of dollars are flowing.” I suggest another site, www.whitehousethermostat.gov (don’t bother clicking just yet), that will constantly display the thermostat settings and indoor temperature of this government building.
After all, if the planet is at stake, then even a president should be able to tolerate slightly cooler temperatures. You betcha!
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