The Curse of the State of the Union Rebuttal [UPDATED]

The response to the State of the Union is the opposition party's opportunity to inform the president that, yes, his agenda is welcome to crawl into a corner and die. Call it the STFU to the president's SOTU. It's also a hazardous assignment, if history's any judge.

Tonight Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) will give the official Republican response, and Sen. Rand "Son of Ron" Paul will give the official Tea Party response, which is a whole lot of responding–and a whole lot of room for error.

Here's what Rubio and Paul need to do in order to avoid making complete(er) fools of themselves:

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Quote Unquote: Disconnecting the Phone

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels on getting the all-important veep call from Mitt Romney…

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"If I thought that call was coming, I would disconnect the phone."

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The really shocking thing here is that Mitch Daniels still uses a landline.

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The Daily Show on the GOP's Unenthusiastic Acceptance of Romney

You know, eventually people even come to accept the human papillomavirus. It's not preferable, but it's not the end of the world.

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Tags: George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Jon Stewart, Marco Rubio, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Primaries, Republicans, The Daily Show, Video

The Daily Show on the State of the Union

The Best F#@king New Team Ever offers the best f#@king analysis ever of the President's SOTU address, its responses and all the reasons that we're going to die.

The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11/10c.

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Obama to Push Tax Fairness in SOTU Speech (Liveblog Tonight @ 9/8c)

If Mitt Romney was hoping to drop his tax returns into the news cycle on the day of the President's State of the Union address as a tactical attempt to keep his nearly-Kerry-like tax rate from reverberating too strongly through the news cycle, he probably ended up choosing the wrong SOTU address with which to try his luck…

President Barack Obama will seek to frame an election-year State of the Union address on Tuesday in starkly populist terms by emphasizing the inequality in a tax system that allows the wealthy to pay a lower rate than middle-class Americans.

His message will contrast with the release of tax records by Mitt Romney, a potential Republican rival and one of the wealthiest men to ever run for the White House. The records show Romney paid a lower rate than many top wage earners.

Oof! What's the exact opposite of a jackpot called again?

While we're on the subject, here's some footage the White House just released of the President pretending to be working on tonight's speech for the cameras…

We'll be liveblogging here and livetweeting @indecison for President Obama's third State of the Union address — as well as the Republican and Tea Party responses from Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels and Herman Cain respectively — tonight starting at 9/8c.

Keegan-Michael Key of Key & Peele will also be livetweeting the true meaning behind Obama's nice pretty words @ObamaTranslated.

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