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	White House creates Office of Innovation. Expected to be paradigm-shifting and synergistic

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5-28-2009 3:07 PM

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dumb, useless government agency, nonsense, spending money like drunk kennedys

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Isn't Governmental Innovation an oxymoron?

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5-28-2009 3:52 PM

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C-O-T: Perhaps it's just an unfortunate name, but the concept of an Office of Innovation reminded me of the Ministry of Small Animals or the Department of Redundancy Department.

Except those were throwaway lines in a Monty Python sketch and this one will get millions in funding.

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