Perhaps now would be the time for an Obama administration road trip. It solves two problems simultaneously; it gets them away from our economy for a while, and corrects the balance of clowns deficit. They could take Congress with them and do us all a favor.
According to Robert Heinlein, the device is called a "waldo". See the book "Waldo & Magic, Inc.". According to NASA it should be called "Dextre" for the SPDM supplied by Canada for the International Space Station.
I just finished "Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand. It is extremely long (1200 pages of small print), but it is a cracking good story and very thought provoking. I found myself skipping a lot of the wordy parts to get to the next descriptive scenes.
Another good one I read recently is "The Monsters of Templeton" by Lauren Groff
On a Lighter note, any book in the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser
The small picture is hard to make out, but it looks more like Emmett Kelley or Edgar Allan Poe than Jesus (although nobody alive today knows what Jesus actually looked like).
Another good one I read recently is "The Monsters of Templeton" by Lauren Groff
On a Lighter note, any book in the Flashman series by George MacDonald Fraser