What's hot in Washington DC now? No, not President-elect Barack Obama's newly minted National Security team. It's the moustache! For years, lawmakers and White House wizards usually preferred clean-cut shaves. Only five US presidents sported full beards, and another four had moustaches, according to one Nicholas Whyte. "These were all during the half century run of the dozen Presidents between Lincoln and Taft, of whom only Andrew Johnson and McKinley were clean-shaven. The Republicans have historically been the hairier party." But as The Reliable Source's Amy Argetsinger points out there's a growing number of hairy men alarming Gillette stockholders with the possibility of a beardly renaissance. After the jump, peruse our moustaches menu and ponder its return.

Washington has always had its fair share of the bearded or 'stached -- usually Volvo-driving liberals from Bethesda or Foggy Bottom dwellers. Outside of politics, a few have included columnist Tom Friedman (the famed "Moustache of Understanding") and Redskins Hall of Famer Art Monk. But now Obama's gestating team includes hairy Attorney General pick Eric Holder and senior advisor David Axelrod. "Holder gets kudos for his neat, clipped cut," writes Argetsinger. "He would be the first AG with a mustache in almost 100 years. Axelrod's shaggy crop is another story -- it's described as sad, droopy and even, according to Britain's Telegraph, 'lugubrious.'" Further, the moustache claimed another victory recently when Rep. Henry Waxman was elected to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "Waxman's short, military brush has terrified Capitol Hill for years and earned its own nickname -- 'Mustache of Justice' -- with a line of magnets, mugs and buttons."

Newly tapped National Security Advisor Gen. Jim Jones (no relation to the Kool-aid crazed cult leader) might look badass with a bushy Tom Selleck. That's the kind of international jackbooted commander I want to see snapping Osama bin Laden's brittle diseased little spine like a twig, or wrestling with a shirtless Vladimir Putin, who doesn't even have the decency to rock a Stalin moustache or a Leninesque Van Dyke.