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CQ Roll Call has a story up about “date night” for the State of the Union Address on Tuesday. At last year’s address, in the wake of the shooting of Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, many in Congress sat next to a member of other party rather than all the Democrats on one side of the chamber and all of the Republicans on the other.  It was supposed to symbolize a new bipartisanship.

Obviously the bipartisanship failed, but lawmakers are pairing off again this year.

The Senate pairings announced so far include Lisa Murkowski and Mark Udall, Dick Shelby and Mary Landrieu, Mark Kirk and Joe Manchin, Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman, Pat Toomey and Bob Casey, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Barbara Mikulski, Olympia Snowe and Mark Begich, Kelly Ayotte and Jack Reed, Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, and Pat Roberts and Claire McCaskill. House combinations include Michael Grimm and Loretta Sanchez, John Shimkus and Tim Bishop, Tom Marino and Hank Johnson, Bob Latta and Joe Donnelly, Louie Gohmert and Carolyn Maloney, Michael McCaul and Doris Matsui, Steve Fincher and Jim Cooper, Dave Reichert and Ron Kind, Pat Meehan and Jackie Speier, Reid Ribble and Kurt Schrader, Brett Guthrie and John Yarmuth, Steve Womack and Mike Ross, Jack Kingston and John Barrow, and Frederica Wilson and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

I don’t see any of our local congressmen on the list. Who do you think Bob Goodlatte, Morgan Griffith, Jim Webb and Mark Warner should pair off with? Eric Cantor and Barney Frank would make a cute couple.

(Correction 2:23 p.m.: Mark Warner was misidentified in the original post as John Warner.)