Michelle, the Media and the Costa del Sol

You know things are tough all over when even the media start noticing what’s wrong with this picture:

But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns – or forgoing them altogether – the Obamas don’t seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her “closest friends.” According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times.

Reports are calling the lodgings of Obama’s Spanish fiesta, the Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella, “luxurious,” “posh” and “a millionaires’ playground.” Estimated room rate per night? Up to a staggering $2,500. Method of transportation? Air Force Two.

Hard to see how anybody could object to that, right?

Naturally, the hacks and non-entities are circling the wagons and attacking Glenn Reynolds for this picture, but even Soros-funded stooges must know that the game, very soon, will be up.

After all, when you’ve semi-lost Maureen Dowd…