Umm, She's Just The First Lady

Apparently, Michelle Obama thinks she is an elected official instead of just being an unelected, who care who you are First Lady.
From the San Fran Chronicle: First ladies typically avoid getting into public scraps, but Michelle Obama has jumped into perhaps her biggest battle yet.

She's fighting a House Republican effort to soften a central part of her prized anti-childhood obesity campaign and she says she's ready "to fight until the bitter end."

Mrs. Obama even mocked the GOP effort in an opinion column and argued her case before her Twitter followers.

"Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches?" she wrote in The New York Times. "You don't have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn't make much sense. Yet we're seeing the same thing happening again with these new efforts to lower nutrition standards in our schools."

Mrs. Obama lobbied largely behind the scenes four years ago for the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which requires more fruit, vegetables and whole grains in school meals, along with less sodium, sugar and fat. It was a major achievement, the first update to school lunch rules in decades designed to make school meals more nutritious.

The School Nutrition Association, an industry-backed group that represents school cafeteria workers and originally supported the standards, has now turned against them. The association says it fully supports getting kids to eat healthier but says many districts are losing money because students aren't buying the healthier lunches.

More than 1 million fewer students eat lunch at school each day since the first round of standards went into effect in 2012, following decades of steadily increasing participation, said Diane Pratt-Heavner, a spokeswoman for the association. A second round of rules, including standards for school breakfasts, took effect July 1.

"How can we call these standards a success when they are driving students away from the program?" she said.

Her group wants more flexibility for districts that are losing money. A House bill to fund the Agriculture Department next year would give districts a chance to apply to skip the requirements for one year.

Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama, the Republican author of that measure, said the lunch rules go too far and came too fast for school districts to handle.

"As well-intended as the people in Washington believe themselves to be, the reality is that from a practical standpoint these regulations are just plain not working out in some individual school districts," he said after a House panel approved the bill. A vote by the full House is expected after its July Fourth break.  http://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/Michelle-Obama-fights-GOP-on-school-lunch-rules-5601101.php

Apparently, no one has told Mrs. Obama that her program has failed and failed miserably.

At the school I teach at, kids just were just not buying the food CCSD put out for them, if they did buy the meal, most of the time, the majority of the food was thrown away.  And talking to teachers throughout the District, they see the same thing.

It is obvious that President Obama has surrounded himself with yes men and women who are afraid to tell the President "No".  It also seems that no one has told Mrs. Obama "No!" anytime in her life.  Certainly, no one has told Mrs. Obama that her program sucks because if someone did, Mrs. Obama would have changed her program significantly, so it would actually help the kids, not harm them.