I have the Senate Widget

That patent is mine, claimed upon this post.

Here is how the Senate Widget works:
It pops up on the Senators screen, and it has a slider and text. In the slider the Senator adjusts between more secrecy and faster convergence.  In the input field he puts the XML tag definition for the government program he is bidding for.  See where this is going? We could have these little bots roam the Linux boxes amongst each other, digital Senators trading!.  They always look for the minimal trade among the programs.

But it is still political, the Senators can secretly go off to, say the men's room, and take out their manipulators and adjust the slider.

Eventually the bots will come to a conclusion!