…obtaining more of my money to spend.

And when a politician has spent unwisely, how many options does he ever consider in how to address the resulting red ink?

Spend less? Bite your tongue!

Sheesh, no one got all over Nancy Reagan’s case for her designer duds or Laura Bush for her custom made Fairclough suits.

I’ll just say that I remember things just a little differently, at least WRT Nancy Reagan. Though it may be partly because I was in college during Reagan’s first term, and also partly because the newspaper I read, despite being the moer conservative of Sacramento’s two, also printed some slightly-beyond-liberal columnists.

By the time of, say, Grenada, of course, they were less lathered about Nancy’s wardrobe than about Ron’s Cold War policies. Heh.

Speaking as one who, on a doctor’s advice, only carries backpacks (once I made the switch it cleared up all neck pain), I’m still tolerant of the huge amount of money some women like to lavish on purses and shoes. As one friend said, “No matter how much weight you gain or what time of the month it is, they ALWAYS fit.”

I don’t feel compelled to tell them how to spend theirs.

The standard reply would probably include references to politicians being able to vote themselves raises, though technically the President doesn’t have that power and, not technically, neither does the First Lady.

But where valid, the argument may be worth a grudging shrug.