support shampoo products for cats and dogs, half a million for shampoo research. why aren t the pet products companies getting at that task? and one of our favorites, while the government shuts the doors to the white house, it did spend part of a $325,000 national science foundation grant to build a robotic squirrel. we call him robo squirrel. alan colmes the host of the alan comes show and lars larsen joins me now. great to see you guys. alan, of all the choices and places to cut federal spending, why would the obama administration start with white house tours? well, there s more to the story than i think is generally reported which is that the uniformed division officers under which the people who give the tours fall involves the secret service and that they are using these people now for other security areas in the white house because of furloughs that will take place and this could
federal budget line-by-line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less? brian: the president has yet to do that for the republican budget hawk has. oklahoma senator tom coburn, put out the 2012 congressional waste book and it s filled. billions of ridiculous government spending. you have want some examples of the tax dollars at work, you have $516,000 for video game that simulates prom night. not bob s, others. study golfers and their imagination, $350,000. $1 million to nasa for doing something with pizza on mars. tens of millions of dollars for tax loophole in the nhhl on strike. and pga. $325,000 to develop a robotic squirrel to capture snakes. bob: it does look like greg. brian: thank you. tom coburn said better priority and oversight could save taxpayers $19 billion. does it bother you? it s not $1 trillion.
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brian: santorum said they got the wrong guy. michigan is the same as pennsylvania. it s interesting that north carolina is firmly in the romney camp. bob: if obama loses pennsylvania, romney will win in a landslide. if pennsylvania is that much of a democratic state, if that happens other states in the north will go that way. eric: gallup came out today and that is important because it s a seven-day rolling average. all seven days are post prior debate. came out that romney was 50%, obama 40%. eric: i assumed that is why obama paid attention. dana: the media saying that obama has a chance. bob: a friend of mine did in pennsylvania. he added three points. coming up, your tax dollars are hard at work. promoting caviar consumption and animal beauty products and funding robotic squirrel named surprisingly, robo squirrel.