Why is President Obama’s $70 million initiative to promote robotic development being promoted as:

…a vehicle to transform American lives and revitalize the American economy

I suppose unemployment will transform a life. Ok, I realize technology moves on and we need to adapt. But I find it ludicrous that this initiative is being promoted as a way to promote jobs. Although no one actually mentions that they’ll increase jobs. Maybe there will be a slight increase until the robots start building themselves (aka reproducing).

This makes me wonder the following:

Can enough people be nominated so that the financial bailout can be covered in back taxes? The bailout is costly so we’ll probably have to go bi-partisan and nominate republicans. Although the Dems have a pretty good percentage going so far, 15 cabinet posts and over $134,000 collected. But we need over $800 billion for the bailout, that’s a lot of nominations. Perhaps the cabinet posts could be auctioned and given to the people who owe (and pay) the most back taxes.

Should every Congressman and Senator be vetted for a cabinet post so that they can learn of their “honest mistakes” and make it all right? Can Senator Dodd be first?

Will the feds now say the tax laws are so complicated that even people who make the laws can’t understand them? The slogan can be “Tax reform so simple even a cabinet secretary can figure it out.”

Why is President Obama picking people that can’t run their own finances to run the government? (Yea, assumes the “honest mistake” explanation but I figure whether it’s corruption or incompetence they probably aren’t the best choice.) It just seems wrong that our Treasury Secretary uses Turbo Tax to do his taxes and gets it wrong. Make me think the government will run on Quickbooks and the guy using it doesn’t know software is only as good as the user and the information put in.

Will Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood, Linda Chavez and Bernie Karik pay their nanny back taxes and get renominated to the Supreme Court (Baird, Wood) or Cabinet (Chavez, Karik) now that such things are seen as honest mistakes and can be cleared up with a check? (Well, maybe not Kerik as he had more than tax problems.) Guess we now know what change Obama is bringing to government – new, even lower standards.

Not a question – but an observation, these public servants are paid so well (not necessarily for their official government work) that they can write checks for $34,000 and $100,000 at the drop of a hat in order to secure another public servant job that pays $191,000 a year. Do they even bother to still claim they work for the people?

People who live in small-town America are “real Americas”, I guess the rest of us are faking it.

And when northern Virginia begins to poll in favor or Obama they aren’t the real Virginians.

To help us all out, the Daily Show has a quiz so we can learn if I’m a real American (you need to watch the end of the previous clip as the “third crazy lady”) will set the stage for the quiz.:

I have to return to that third crazy lady. To say that members of the Senate and House are anti-America is ludicrous. They may be incompetent, they may be corrupt, they may have views you oppose, but that doesn’t make them anti-American.

This isn’t negative campaigning, its a campaign of division and hate.

I’m registered as unaffiliated but have voted for the Republican Presidential candidate as far back as I can remember (even last time when it was tough and a reluctant vote) but I won’t be able to do it this time. I had hoped that John McCain would be the McCain of old and avoid a political party’s natural tendency to go to the extreme. Instead his candidacy is giving voice and support to to the fringe and I have no doubt he’d continue to do so to keep their support when he’s in office.

I’m just grateful the Democratic candidate isn’t Hilary.