It seems that our new President, who urged that individuals sacrifice for the Common Good™ in his inaugural address, has decided that the White House is entirely too cold and has therefore turned up the heat.

While people in the northeast suffer through a particularly cold winter. The reason is that he was born in Hawaii, and feels more comfortable when it's hot, while he lectures the rest of the world on energy conservation. Hypocrisy? In a Democrat? Heaven forfend. Just ask, oh, Tom Daschle or Bill Richardson about the need for utter transparency and they'll tell you that ethics are for the little people. Because they're special.

I recall when James Earl Carter lectured us on turning down our thermostats, and he put his money where his (astonishingly dentulous) mouth is: he appeared in a sweater, much to the amusement, and bemusement, of the American people.

Not a week in office and I thinking that Jimmy the Pious may be more honest than His O'liness. But then Jimmy was merely a fool.

Do these people have no shame?