Tuesday night just won't be the same without the Jackass-in-the-Box, Nancy Pelosi, entertaining us with her epileptic on a pogo stick routine everytime Barry utters one of his stock applause lines.

Maybe the Republicans in the peanut gallery will be able to fill the void?  Wouldn't want it to be boring, you know.  In place of "You Lie," perhaps they can yell out "You spend" each time the Prez proposes big dollars for infrastructure projects or new education initiatives.  Or, when he talks about his signature big government program, healthcare.

There's been a lot of speculation about how Obama is planning to invoke Reagan in his State of the Union address in an effort to capture some of the Gipper's pro-growth magic.  Somebody should clue him in that words alone won't cut it.

Forget Reagan.  That's way too big of a leap for the Spender-n-Chief.  Baby steps.  Baby steps.

He'd do well to channel a little JFK instead.  Rather than landing a man on the moon and safely returning him to earth by the end of the decade, how about cutting the damn accumulated debt in half in the same timeframe?  Talk about one giant leap for mankind.

Better yet, why not take a cue from one of the greatest speeches of all time, Lincoln's second inaugural address?  We are, after all, in 2011, engaged in another civil war of sorts, the outcome of which may very well, like the conflict from 1861 to 1865, determine the viability of our nation.

Let's defeat Big Government and free ourselves from the tyranny of paralyzing debt and deficits.