'Ahh, Dick ... Isn't There Something We Can Do About All These Subpeonas? ...The Results - The Garlic Week Poll

Considering all the xenophobic rhetoric, phony terror alerts and smearing during their terms to-date, that it is all but certain President Bush and Vice President Cheney are the first two people that are the least happy with the House and Senate going over to Democratic Majorities in 2007, and our Garlic Poll Voters were, as usual, quite perceptive to that.

And with the Democrats promising a “back-to-business” in the new session, and Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi already announcing a return to the five-day work week, you can take all this talk about bipartisanship for what it is, and begin smelling the burning heat of those subpoenas being fired into the White House

While it would be fun to hear Keith Olbermann taunt “The Sleepiest Congressman of the Week” award, which placed a close second in the voting, or to have the Gregory-Snow version of the “Thriller In Manila”, duking it out in the Press Room (and, okay, Snow apologized but that was last week), we’ll have to be patient and see just how it will be when our congressman and senators truly get down to some serious work.

Stay Tuned ... After all, 2007, in the Chinese Calendar, is the Year of the Pig...

The Results - The Garlic's Weekly Poll December 10 - December 16, 2006

With the Democratic-led 110th Congress planning on working a 5-Day week, we can expect...

1. Pissing-and-moaning from Bush and Cheney, because the new oversight is impeding the gathering of more Executive Power Tally 30%

2. New C-SPAN or Keith Olbermann “Sleeping Congressman of the Week” award Tally 29%

3. NBC’s David Gregory to become even grouchier; A lot more podium head-banging from White House Press Secretary Tony Snow Tally 28%

4. More K Street Lobbyists, as they will have to work double-shifts to keep pace Tally 13%

This week’s Poll - President Bush is delaying his new strategy for Iraq until next month because

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The 110^th Congress will likely wipe the smiles of Bush and Cheney’s faces, and have them wishing that they received one of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s “Snowflakes”, telling them that you “Go with the Executive Powers you have, not the Executive Powers you wished you had at a later date”