Some of you guys hate it when I poke fun at Our Dear Leader, but he just makes it so easy sometimes. Remember about a month ago, when Obama mocked Washingtonites for bringing the city to a halt over a little inclement weather? Here’s a refresher:

After his daughters got a snow day Wednesday, President Barack Obama wants to see a little bit of “flinty, Chicago toughness” applied locally.

“When it comes to the weather, folks in Washington don’t seem to be able to handle things,” a joking Obama told reporters Wednesday morning.

“My children’s school was canceled today because of what? Some ice.”

That toughness is pretty flinty, alright! (Then he ruggedly and manfully cranked up the Oval Office thermostat because he felt a bit chilly, but that’s another story.)

Well, obviously Obama was indeed making a funny ha-ha joke, if this item from today’s Daily Telegraph is any indication:

Strange goings on surrounding the programme for the first day of Gordon Brown’s visit to Washington.

No sooner had the Prime Minister’s plane touched down at Andrews Air Force on Monday evening when word was passed to travelling Westminster correspondents that the press conference they’d been told to expect had been called off “because of snow”.

Tee-hee. Just another example of the stuff I’m really starting to like about this new era, what with the ice-encrusted Global Warming protests, the stock market reacting to Hope and Change by leaping headfirst out the window, tax cheats chasing tax dodgers, etc. It’s an ironist’s nirvana!