The New York Times is reporting today that Caroline Kennedy refuses to make financial disclosures pursuant to her oddly handled campaign to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. In short, Princess Caroline refuses to comply with either the standards Obama has set for application to any post within his administration (which includes a 63-page document listing every text message, email, resume, or other correspondence ever sent) or the requirements to actually run for a United States Senate seat in a proper election (10-page publicly available document listing mortgages, credit card debt, financial assets, book deals, and any payments made to her over $5,000 in the last three years).

Princesses ain’t gotta!

That seems to be Caroline’s attitude, anyway. Since she’s appealling to Governor David Paterson for an appointment to the Senate, Princess Caroline is trying to have things both ways, to get HER WAY.  She wants to pressure Paterson to hand her the seat, so she’s awkwardly campaigning in places like Harlem, where she appeared uncomfortably with Al Sharpton last week, and has made sporadic appearances in upstate New York, where previously she didn’t seem aware there was even an UPSTATE New York to appear in (“What’s a Utica?”). But, she also wants to keep her finances secret, so presumably no one knows how much she and her late brother made selling all of her mother’s throw pillows and afghans at auction back in 1996.

She’s also refusing to note what companies she has a stake in or whether she’s ever been charged with any crime. She says she will not disclose any of this until she becomes a Senator.

So there! Princesses ain’t gotta!

Now, you know we like to make fun of things around here, especially ridiculous things the spoiled and privileged do to make themselves look ridiculous, but the way Caroline Kennedy has been handling herself lately is just too much. We’ve known small children who’ve behaved better while hounding their parents for that shiney new Christmas toy, that remote controlled dinosaur or doll that wets itself in some fabulously realistic new way. We ALL know what Princess Caroline wants in her Christmas stocking this year, and we’re all certain she’ll throw a mighty tantrum if she doesn’t get her way, but even the most spoiled little children feign respect and good manners around Christmas. When Santa is watching. That’s part of the wonder of the holiday season – that magical dusting of snow and glitter on everything turns the most terrible tykes into expiration-dated angels, good until Christmas morning at least.

Well, princesses ain’t gotta, we guess, because Caroline wants her present tied up in glorious Christmas gift wrap, with none of the pedestrian good behavior normally required for such fabulous gifts.

Thinking back to her mother’s old throw pillows (which sold for $400-900 bucks a pop back in the mid-90s), we can’t stop wondering about how Jackie Kennedy would have behaved in this situation — a situation Jackie Kennedy would have never gotten herself into.

If she would run for office like any other person and win in 2010, we’d imagine Jackie would be very proud of her little girl for, above all, finally getting her first full time job at the age of 51.

But, the entitled appointment to the Senate that Caroline wants gift-wrapped and hand-delivered to her…well, that’s something we can’t imagine Jackie being very proud of. We bet she’d want all of her throw pillows back, too, and would probably tell Caroline to brush her teeth once in a while if she suddenly wants to be in pictures all of the time.

But, of course, princesses ain’t gotta!