President Obama's best zinger last night did not go over well with Republicans. Bummer.

"I've run my last campaign," Obama said toward the end of the nationally televised address. Republicans in the chamber applauded derisively, which prompted the president to ad-lib a zinger which wasn't in his prepared remarks: "I know because I won both of them."

Damn that was good. I could watch it over and over.

And I have.

However it did not exactly make the Republicans feel all warm and fuzzy toward the President. And I know that because one of them even said that out loud.

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

"Probably not helpful when you rub the other guy's nose in the dirt a little bit," Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), a close ally of Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), told reporters. 

"Look, he's allowed to take a victory lap but he ought to be thinking about what works — what's gonna help me actually put points on the board," Cole said. "How are you going to define your legacy in the last two years. Is this all about a third Obama term by winning the presidency? Then that would suggest you just want confrontation and the ability for your nominee to attack a 'do nothing right wing Congress.'" 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called Obama's jab — and overall speech — "disappointing," pointing to the Democrats' crushing defeat in the November congressional elections. 

"If the president sticks to the tone that he chose tonight — if he sticks to anger and defiance towards the American voters, then perhaps he will veto bill after bill after bill after bill," Cruz told a scrum of reporters. "But if he chooses to embrace and revel in gridlock and obstructionism that will be an unfortunate choice and I hope he reconsiders." 

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) was less troubled by Obama's line, calling it "an interesting throwaway." 

"It was kind of like he got back in campaign mode and did that. And so that's all I make of it," she told TPM. 

Senate Energy Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said Obama's remarks did not make her feel "warm and fuzzy" about having to work with him for the next two years.

Would you like a little cheese with that whine Senator Murkowski?

Of course making the President's speech even more impressive was the fact that there were multiple Republican rebuttals, that went from the sublime to the ridiculous.

#JoniErnst "Don't tax-punish the rich for successfully squeezing their low-wage employees" #sotu pic.twitter.com/2Sr2NnwsPZ
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) January 21, 2015

Of course the official one was from newly minted hog castrating Senator Joni Ernst.

Who really did not address much of anything the President actually said, and instread focused on the fact that she had to wear bread bags on her shoes as a child.

Which inspired the #breadbagshoes on Twitter.

Simpsons already did it. #breadbagshoes pic.twitter.com/GS55Xuohsh
— Jillian Sederholm (@JillianSed) January 21, 2015

(Trust me that was one of the mild ones.)

Perhaps my favorite rebuttal of the group came from Ted Cruz, who part way through stopped for a do over, that somehow got posted to You Tube.

You know that rising up on his toes thing to make a point is really off putting.

My favorite line, due to it's utter stupidity, was this one:

"Tonight not a word was said about radical Islamic terrorism. Those words did not come out of the President's mouth. We cannot win a war on radical Islamic terrorism, with the President unwilling to even say the words radical Islamic terrorism."

He does know that those are not magic words, right?

And of course No Nothing from the North had to offer her two cents as well.

Palin's ghostwriter wrote a lot of words that essentially say nothing of any importance, and then she ended the post using this graphic.

Which is essentially my response to anything that Palin's ghostwriter has to say about the SOTU speech as well. So I borrowed it.

You know the conservatives can bitch and moan all damn day if they want to, but the President knocked the hide off the ball last night.

I know it, you know it, and more importantly, the Republicans clearly know it.