This Weeks' Poll - Don't Forget To Vote ... Help Obama Spend Some Money!

Just a reminder, for you to take a moment and throw a vote in to help President Obama decide what to do the Stimulus money the GOP Governors are thumbing there noses at ... 

If they don't want it, we have some suggestions of what can be done with it ... 

Go over to the left column and make your selection! 

New Garlic Poll ... If the GOP Governors don't want the Stimulus Money, Obama should ...

These guys certainly would qualify, all by themselves, as a boatload of Ignorant Dolts.

Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, Mississippi's Haley Barbor, South Carolina's Mark Sanford, and some others, have all firmly inserted their heads up their rear ends, and have come out bashing the Stimulus Package, all saying they would reject it, or a certain amount of it.

It's all part of their new/old, Back-To-The-Future, Newt Gingrich-Contract-On-America strategy, that is going to sweep them back into power

See, by saying no, becoming the party of "No", being the obstructionists to the reigniting of our economy, they are placing all their chips on President Obama failing, just so they can hit the campaign trails with a "Naa, Naa, Naa, Naa, Naa ... We told you so!".

Other than it will hurt scores-of-hundreds-of-thousands around the country, in their respective states, I would be inclined to say "Go For It!" ... Keep listening to the Cheeseburger That Sweats (aka Rush Limbaugh; H/T to Barry Crimmins for that), and the new Town Crier, Rick Santelli... Let them lead you to even further irrelevance.

So, we thought, rather than waste energy on them, we'd offer up a few options for President Obama, on what to do with the money they are rejecting.

If the GOP Governors don't want the Stimulus Money, Obama should ...

Give it to his daughters

Buy John McCain a helicopter

Go to Las Vegas and "stimulate" the crap tables

Stash it away in a Slush Fund for 2012

Go over to the leftside column and place your votes!

Bonus Links

Think Progress: Obama Hits GOP Governors Rejecting Stimulus Funds: There’ll Be ‘Ample Time For Campaigns Down The Road’

DemFromCT: Operation Unified Lemming

Chris Cillizza And Perry Bacon Jr.: Well Before the 2012 Season, Obama Kicks the GOP a Political Football

Garlic Poll Results ... "But I Thought We Were Getting A Company Car!"

Well, our revival of The Garlic's Weekly Poll was met with news that, well, let's just say it wasn't a rounding endorsement for taking a seat on Obama's new Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry;

Auto team drives imports ...Fed task force has few new U.S. cars

The vehicles owned by the Obama administration's auto team could reflect one reason why Detroit's Big Three automakers are in trouble: The list includes few new American cars. 

Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department's special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three.

And the two big cheeses - Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers?

The co-chairs of the task force -- Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers -- both own foreign automobiles. 

Geithner owns a 2008 Acura TSX, registered in New York. He once owned a 1999 Honda Accord and a 2002 Acura MDX, according to public records. 

Geithner is the president's designee for purposes of enforcing loan agreements with GM and Chrysler and must approve or reject any proposed transactions by either company that would cost $100 million or more. 

His maternal grandfather, Charles Moore, was a vice president at Ford Motor Co. from 1952-63, according to Peter Geithner, the secretary's father. But Geithner wasn't very interested in cars growing up -- in part because he graduated from high school in Asia, his father said. 

Summers owns a 1995 Mazda Protege that's registered in Massachusetts. He previously owned a 1996 Ford Taurus GL.

Hmmmm ... Kind of like finding out that the chef for your restaurant, eats down the street.

Something tells me that a whole bunch of people in the Obama Administration will be visiting their local car dealerships - those selling American models - in the near future.

However, there is a bright side to this.

The persons that our Garlic readers voted to be added to the Obama Car Team, are probably the best possible salesman for just this type of problem.

And, they certainly will be able to part quality advice, as to repairs and upkeep.



The Results

For his "Presidential panel on the auto industry", Obama should include; 

Click and Clack,,, Tally 40% 

Danica Patrick ... Tally 30% 

Speed Racer... Tally 20% 

Like Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, keep it Super Secret ... Tally 10% 


The New Garlic Weekly Poll;  

If the GOP Governors don't want the Stimulus Money, Obama should ...

Go over to the leftside column and place your vote!

The Garlic Poll Is Back! ... And, Putting You In The Driver's Seat

Well, in case you skipped over the previous post this evening, you can see we have revived The Garlic Weekly Poll.

And, why not come in, with our sleeves rolled up, at the ready to pitch in and do our part.

It hasn't been especially easy for President Obama to fill his cabinet.

Additionally, there were the grand plans to have a "Car Czar", which, to the ear, sounds more like some late night infomercial, perhaps a rival to the blaring heir to "Head On", the "ShamWow".

So, he scrapped the plans this week and will run with a "Run by Committee" thing, or, as they put it, a "Presidential panel on the auto industry", otherwise to be known as "President's Task Force on Autos".

Considering the bleak news today of the Auto Industry, their going to need every Czar, committee, panel, task force and, perhaps, shammies, to pull this one off.

So, we thought we'd help them, let our readers have a voice in the process, and select who else should be joining this team.

In our Poll this week, we ask;

For his "Presidential panel on the auto industry", Obama should include;

Click and Clack

Danica Patrick

Speed Racer

Like Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, keep it Super Secret

Go over to the leftside column and throw in your vote!

The Fat Lady Is Singing!

Well, we have had quite the day.

As we left off last evening ("Hey! ... Where You Goin' With That Browser!" ...), The Garlic was stuck, with one foot in Computer Hell, the other frantically attempting to get the other one out of it.

Our Firefox Browser was corrupted (either by a visit to YouTube, or The Huffington Post, with that annoying, omnipresent "NetFlix" pop-up ad), with Google searches being directed to sites other than what they should have been (a bevy of sales, marketing, and, in the cretin creator of such malware perversity, malware removal sites).

Running various scans for the malware, or viruses, was proving fruitless.

So, we began the day with unistalling Firefox, then reinstalling it, to see if the problem existed.

It did.

So, uninstall again, but this time, based on various reading yesterday, in our search for a solution, we installed for our browser, the Opera Browser.

And, so far, we are quite impressed.

Pretty slick-looking and, as billed, it is quite fast - faster than FireFox (and infinitely faster than IE).

Our new-found joy last only a few hours, as the dreaded browser-redirection issue soon surfaced on Opera, as well.

We have since run a few more programs, attempting to end this problem and no luck, so far

But we are going to let the Fat Lady sing, and leave Opera as the browser of record for now, as I can get used to the super-speed it is displaying.

Rather than half-ass it, with the handful of back-logged posts, we will (assuming all is working well) come charging out of the gate tomorrow with regular posting.

In the meantime, we'll spoil the announcement, and point you to that we have resumed our Weekly Garlic Poll, so go throw your vote in, and we'll have the official post on it tomorrow.