State of the Union: Who will Bush have stand up in the balcony?

Last year it was the parents of a soldier killed in Iraq. Under the circumstances, I don’t think he will go to that well again; even the most ardent Bush supporter would see that for the manipulative gesture that it is.

So who will be the gratuitous applause bait tonight?

The corpse of Saddam Hussein.

A lot of returned vets can’t stand up in the balcony.

I found the “You da man!” “No, you da man!” exchange between Bush and the subway hero to be extraordinarily amusing.