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Man, it takes an awful lot of senators to escort the president onto the floor. Don't you think he could find his own way by now? The first lady is looking classy, as always.

Here come the big guns. Supreme Court gets a huge ovation. Looks like they don't have a quorum, though. Now it's on to the Cabinet. Apparently Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson has drawn the short straw and has to stay home, so that he can take over the presidency in a worst-case scenario. Notice that it's never the Secretary of State or Defense who gets that assignment? It's almost a de facto recognition that your job is just not that important.