It’s easy to be really, really mad about the endless stream of bailouts and the treasury secretary who — oopsie! — forgot to pay his taxes. Actually, getting really, really mad probably is more than easy; it’s probably unavoidable. Who did these yahoos think they were and how come they keep saying they didn’t see it coming? Weren’t they reading Paul Krugman? Did they abandon common sense when they bought their first Lear jets?

At least on this White House redecoration thing the Obamas got the message right. The president has a few loose  millions lying around because he wrote a few best-sellers. He can pay for his own damned redecorating and he is going to do that. A small thing, for sure, but something to show that somebody doesn’t want to stick the American public with every bill incurred by the elites. Until Tim Geithner is pushed off the employment cliff, this will have to do.