51. Let garden rot during shutdown in hopes Ted Cruz and Mike Lee will look bad.
Actually it’s not. In a few places it pokes gentle fun. But it’s still an attempt at myth building. And I’m sure that plenty of other First Ladies celebrated milestone birthdays in the White House and nobody cared. I think it’s an attempt to appeal to narcissistic gen x and baby boom women who themselves go all out on their milestone birthdays. It’s also a subtle calculated attempt to underscore the wholesome Everyman middle-class ness of the first family. But if you have to keep underscoring something it’s probably a lie. And anyway, who cares?