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President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Adam Clark Estes

Rep. Eliot Engel, one of the "aisle hogs" identified by Salon, gets his moment with President Obama Tuesday night

U.S. President Barack Obama during his first State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington

Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., greets supports at a gathering on election night in Indianapolis, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Burton, Indiana's current longest-serving congressman, faces six challengers in the Republican primary in Indiana's 5th Congressional district. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) (AP)

Bubble boy congressman's zany plexiglass dream

Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel leaves a news conference in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, where he responded to an Illinois appeals court ruling that threw him off the ballot for Chicago mayor because he didn't live in the city in the year before the election. The court voted 2-1 to overturn a lower-court ruling that would have kept Emanuel's name on the Feb. 22 ballot. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) (AP)

Deanna Bellandi

Artist's rendering of the proposed Temecula Valley mosque

Same sex couples are sworn-in as "Love Warriors" during a rally at the U.S. Capitol, during a cross country tour of the Marriage Equality Caravan 2004 in Washington, October 11, 2004. Same sex couples whose marriage licences were invalidated pending ongoing litigation in California are traveling across the United States to support recognition of civil marriage of same sex couples. From left, are: Former-U.S. Army Sgt. Jacqueline Frank of Akron, Ohio, John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney of San Francisco, and Jeanne Fong, and Jennifer Lin of Emeryville, California. REUTERS/Larry Downing LSD/SV (Â© Reuters Photographer / Reuters)

House GOP will try to ban gay marriage in D.C.

Former presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton giving their State of the Union addresses

Adam Clark Estes

The 5 biggest aisle hogs!

Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney

Who will show up to the first 2012 debate?

A Chrysler auto worker is seen working on a partially assembled Chrysler minivan on the assembly line during the production launch of the new 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan's and Chrysler Town & Country minivans at the Windsor Assembly Plant in Windsor, Ontario January 18, 2011. Chrysler Group Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne vowed to keep the automaker on top of the minivan segment in the North American market and said the company will develop a new type of minivan by 2014. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (CANADA - Tags: TRANSPORT EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) (Reuters)

Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas

Supreme Court one big conflict of interest now

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama, visiting Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C., speaks about the key to boosting American competitiveness, that it rests in the nation's willingness to invest in a more educated workforce, a deeper commitment to research and technology, and improvements in infrastructure, from roads and airports to high-speed internet. Under pressure to boost the economy the same message will likely be at the center of his State of the Union address Tuesday, Jan. 25. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File) (AP)

The real investment agenda Obama should pursue

U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut pauses during his remarks at a news conference in Stamford, Connecticut January 19, 2011 where he announced that he will not seek re-election next year. Lieberman, 68, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee who crossed the political aisle to back Republican John McCain in 2008 White House race, bolted the Democratic party to become an independent five years ago but still often sides with his old party. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Reuters)

Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama, addresses a gathering of corporate CEOs at an economic conference sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. Emanuel was a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and has represented the Fifth Congressional District of Illinois in the House of Representatives since 2002. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (Associated Press)

Rahm Emanuel thrown off Chicago mayoral ballot

Chris Christie and President Obama

Christie declines State of the Union response

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2011, file photo Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Asked on NBC television's "Meet the Press" being aired Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, if he believes the tea party will be a lasting political force, Reid said the movement emerged because of the country's economic problems, that the tea party will no longer exist when the economy improves, and that the economy is getting better every day. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (Associated Press)

(Reuters)

George H.W. Bush prepares to give his Jan. 16, 1991, Oval Office speech announcing the beginning of military action in Iraq (left); and Bill Clinton on the campaign trail in 1992.

FILE - In this May 3, 2007 file photo, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC poses at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Keith Olbermann is leaving MSNBC and has announced that Friday's "Countdown" show will be his last. MSNBC issued a statement Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, that it had ended its contract with the controversial host, with no further explanation. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) (AP)

I'll admit it: I'm glad Olbermann is gone

Jim DeMint

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