Legislators pairing off for bipartisan seating at Obama speech

[cavegal]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/01/23/congress.date.night/

Washington (CNN) -- Will Tuesday be "Date Night" in Congress for President Barack Obama's State of the Union address?

Democratic and Republican legislators are pairing off to sit together for the annual speech in a symbolic gesture of bipartisanship, and some of the combinations so far are intriguing.

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the epitome of East Coast liberalism, and Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a symbol of conservative intransigence, are putting aside their differences to cross the political aisle for a night, Schumer said Sunday.

[TexasCop]

Do they have any clue how stupid this is going to look?  Instead of looking like a Catholic wedding, they're going to look like a wicked game of Whack-a-Mole.
 

[TVDOC]

IMHO it was pretty dumb for the Republicans to fall for this stunt, (it WAS suggested by the Dems)......as the entire reason for it is that when the Dems want to stand up and applaud one of the messiah's comments, the television cameras won't reveal their significantly reduced numbers since the November elections.

 

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