STATE OF THE UNION - Senate Republicans still talking about denying President Obama the right to talk to the nation.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-rights-state-the-union-plan-continues-percolate

This is crazy to even consider it.  What a dumb idea.  Republicans are seriously talking about not allowing President Obama to Give the State of the Union Speech in the Senate.  (Denial has never been done before.)

In 1999, a Republican Congress welcomed President Clinton to deliver a SOTU even after he’d literally been impeached, despite the fact that the GOP-led Senate was still weighing whether to remove the sitting president from office. They let Clinton speak a month after impeachment, but they’ll block Obama? Please.

 

But it’s worth watching this anyway because the right will expect something to satiate their apoplexy. GOP leaders don’t want impeachment or a shutdown, and many of the related alternative tactics are impractical, ineffective, or both. With this in mind, the more conservatives demand some kind of presidential punishment, the more the anti-SOTU push will seem more appealing.