SOTU: Boehner bored; McConnell frozen in hatred

Watching the President's State of the Union [SOTU] speech last night, I could hardly believe the polarization present and visible in Congress despite the President's calls for national unity and patriotism, citing the team spirit of the Navy SEALS in the Bin Laden operation as an inspiring metaphor for the nation.
Despite the fact that President Obama's speech was interrupted approximately 80 times by applause, as far as I could see, House Speaker John Boehner, who was seated directly behind the President, only applauded only once [please correct me if I'm wrong.]  Most of the time, particularly near the end, the man-tanned Speaker appeared bored [maybe he was counting the millions of dollars he has received in PAC money and other forms of political payola...]
We often saw Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the screen, too; in his case, not only did he not applaud, his face appeared to be frozen zombie-like in a permanent expession of absolute hatred directed at the President.
Of couse, as could be expected, the President displayed his oratorical skills and most certainly energized  Democrats in the House Chamber and around the country and, hopefully, some patriotic Republicans, too.
But, despite the President's appeals to the lawmakers' patriotism, the Republicans still seem intent on perpetuating the current gridlock--against the wishes of at least 80% of the American people--and sticking to their unique goal, as enunciated repeatedly by Mitch McConnell, of preventing the President's re-election.
In an interview with National Journal in October 2010, McConnell stated, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." Source: http://exm.nr/chk0Jr
We, the American people, should prove Mitch McConnell wrong, and re-elect the President on November 6, 2012.
Jagor