From Mubarak to Weiner, it was a banner year for fallen despots, dictators, congressmen, and presidential hopefuls. If global politics had an annual awards show, the segment devoted to eulogizing those statesmen we lost in 2011 would be long and impressive. From deposed international despots to sexually reckless U.S. politicians who were forced to leave the political sphere, it was a bad year to get caught on the wrong side of revolutions and popular revulsion. Here, seven of the most dramatic, unexpected falls from power in 2011: 1) Hosni Mubarak 2) Moammar Gadhafi 3) Silvio Berlusconi 4) Dominique Strauss-Kahn 5) Anthony Weiner 6) John Ensign 7) Herman Cain
