Only four more hours (and change) until President Obama gives his 2011 State of the Union Address! Join Stranger staffers and the Washington Bus at 5:30 p.m. at Moe Bar as we drink and liveslog the whole damn thing. Will Obama use or waste this opportunity to start ramping up for the 2012 presidential race? Will he make Republicans froth at every orifice by endorsing more federal spending? Will he make them claw at their ties and lady power suits by name-checking gun control legislation? Will bi-partisan seating force Democrat leaders and their Republican dates stand together and applaud the president's vision, or is his SOTU speech some sort of elaborate trap to make Republicans look stupid?

"I already believe very firmly that it is a trap and a ruse that Democrats are proposing," [Republican Rep. Paul] Broun said. "They don't want civility. They want silence from the Republicans. And the sitting together being kissy-kissy is just another way to try to silence Republicans, and also to show — to keep the American people from seeing how few of them there are in the U.S. House now."

Or is it, like Rep. Broun says, simply all a trap????

Come find out tonight! 5:30 p.m.! Moe Bar!