I strongly support efforts to get old, dirty automobiles off the road in favor of newer technology, provided the highway MPG of the new one is 30 or better. However, this is a sales event being underwritten by the federal government (you and me). But it looks like $2,000,000,000 is worth about 100,000 cars, or about 2,000 cars per state (if you allow unpopulated wastelands to count as states with equal demand).
These monies should be coming from the dealers and the makers. UAW and the other unions involved should contribute. The Big Three must be radically transformed, and although I'd like to see their downhill softened it would be a mistake to extend false hope. I think we should take it as a reality that they will continue to shed workers, facilities and products, and that the lost jobs equal lost medical benefits. 
Those humans and their benefits are the priority, not the enterprise formerly known as the American Auto Industry.

There's no way a routine traffic stop can justify the collection of my genetics.
Without a conviction, there is no way to justify the collection of genetic information from suspects.
There is no legal way to compel a citizen to testify, which this is.
Forcible seizure of DNA should cause those radical freaks training in the woods with machine guns to come down from their mountains to take back America.
I'm not sure I feel this way about a search of my property without a warrant, which may give police access to my hairbrush.

Pat Toomey wrote an opinion piece approving Sotomayor. Turns out that although he'd be likely to disagree with many of her left-of-center positions on the Court, his diffidence and objectivity force him to accept her objective qualifications.
She would be appointed anyway, and RNC strategy must now be focused on limiting obvious losses by claiming to desire those outcomes anyway.
I wonder if Toomey is softening his PR to recruit the Specter Moderates who would like to vote Republican. Sestak is running now against Specter in the primary, and if he takes Delco he'll probably win the Democrat nomination.
But Sestak is a Freshman. No bona fides. Specter is a big old dog with friends and clout. Sestak seized the opportunity to take Curt Weldon's seat in Congress when Weldon finally got attention from the other Feds.
I'm sure Toomey would much rather run against Sestak this time, and tempering his wingnut freakishness with sensitive language in support of rational thought and consideration puts him on par in temperament with Sestak, who speaks a little like Mister Rogers. I wonder if Toomey got a new haircut.
If he can soften enough to seem like an actual candidate instead of a single issue proponent of thug rule, chaos and an ejection of the public from the public, he may allow Democrats to be similarly open-minded in considering the well-intentioned mild manners of Adm. Sestak.
Remember: Every thing they say or do at the RNC is meant only to compete themselves (back) into office to  collect that Government check and keep the government from checking the power of other non-governmental entities like Microsoft and Halliburton.
For people outside Pennsylvania ( Lancaster, Lehigh, and Harrisburg really- no cities here), Pat Toomey was the president of the Club for Growth, has been Rick Santorum on Piety and Brimstone Enhancers, and an outspoken opponent of everything his liberal education should have opened him to.