It is tradional for the political party in opposition to the President of the United States to give a rival speech on the night of the State of the Union address.

Yesterday the Republicans did even better… they supplied not one but TWO rebuttals from the other side of the aisle!

To get the Party started, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin gave the official Republican response following the President’s speech.

His remarks were followed by Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota giving the Tea Party backed response.  It was the latter response which had most pundits abuzz… but maybe not for the reasons you’d think.

The talk of the morning has been Bachmann’s seemingly failed attempt to look into the camera while delivering her remarks.  David Axelrod, a top advisor to President Obama, even took a moment to poke fun when appearing on MSNBC later in the evening.

CNN, the only network to air the address, later explained Bachmann was looking into the Web-cam set up by the Tea Party Express and not the camera broadcasting across the nation…oops!