"It's hell. I can't stand it!' This cri de Coeur is attributed by Madame Bruni-Sarkozy to Michelle Antoinette Obama, but it might equally be attributed to John Boehner, Karl Rove, what used to be called the Mainstream Media, most sitting members of the House and Senate, and job-seeking graduates of most Ivy-League colleges and universities. Times are tough, and as a result, many well-fixed types find themselves for the first time in their lives on the wrong side of rigorous new performance standards and some unsettling new behavioral patterns among the rest of us. They had it made; this was supposed to be fun time-what gives?In the fat, or at least the seemingly fat, times life was a lot easier. To hold down a $300,000 Vice Presidency for Community Window Dressing at a university hospital, all a well-connected future First Lady had to do was show up, and maybe occasionally explain why it was that emergency patients from the neighborhood were shunted off to some new community...(Read Full Post)