It’s December of 2012. The Second Korean War has just ended. The North Korean government collapsed after Pyongyang got nuked, but it turns out that North Korea had a couple of ballistic missle subs that we didn’t know about. In a related note, Washington DC is now an irradiated wasteland, off-limits to human habitation for at least the next couple of decades. The president (I’ll take a pass on whether this is Obama, Romney, or whoever) has asked you to make a recommendation on where the new capitol should be placed. What do you tell him?
Omaha. It’s where we send the POTUS in case of an attack anyway, so it must be pretty safe.
At the very least you want to stay away from the Forbidden Zone, there’s Fleshy-headed myootants there and radiation has made them an enemy of civilization! Find another place to build a capital for your children. Maybe Saskatoon, because who’d look there?
New York City, as God intended.
Nitpick: in December of 2012, Obama will be president regardless of the election’s outcome.
And this is* different *how? Oh, the radiation.
Vegas, Baby! Its already sufficiently sleazy.
Well, technically, it could possibly be Biden–or even Boehner!
Are you thinking of Operation Looking Glass?
Personally, I think we should also be looking towards the center of the country. Having the capital so close to the coast seems foolhardy. I’d think Denver would be a great choice, and plus, we can send all the conspiracy theorists even more bonkers.
How about Iowa? They could use the tourists. Cause nobody goes to Iowa on purpose now, do they?
Nope.
2:50 pm, Bush arrives at Offutt AFB.
What do I tell him?
A good start Sir. Now we have cleared all the old politicians out we can elect new ones.
[one of the main problems with Washington is all the old blood taking up seats and not being willing to understand that just because they keep getting re-elected does not mean they understand what a majority of the population actually wants. Many people have given up voting because they see absolutely no change no matter who and how they vote.]
I say Omaha, or wherever that hardened governmental bunker happens to be. I also vote to make them live down in the bunker in an assigned apartment with their families, and there to be a school for the dependents, medical clinics and everything needed. They can all eat in the Governmental Chow Hall, shop in the Governmental Exchange Store, no added expense of needing to set up a home back in their constituancy, a home in DC, an office in DC - they get a housing unit that serves as house and office, and they take the underground tramway to work, no need for an expensive car.
And if they get seriously stupid, we flood the base with nitrogen after sneaking out the non-poilticians, wait until they stop squirming, send in the SKs and start all over again.
I nominate Memphis.
Noooo! We have enough *tsouris *here with the damn UN!
The bottom of the Marianas Trench.
This has my vote.
NOT Vegas, because I like Vegas 
Canada, the Marianas Trench, or a quarry…better yet.
The Executive branch goes to Fort Smith in the NWT, the judicial branch gets sent to The Trench, and the legislative branch gets the quarry…could care less which quarry.
Canada? We don’t want your politicians! Even your lefties are righties!
I pick Chattanooga Tennessee because it amuses me to think the federal capital could be in a place that a significant percentage of Americans might not be able to spell (this “fact” is based on no information whatsoever and is merely a friendly joke and amusement at the funny spelling of Chattanooga Tennessee)
I say we move it to Washington State, just to end the confusion for school children.
We have better infrastructure in Cincinnati and can’t spell that either.