Speaker Pelosi isn't asking Trump to postpone the SOTU, she's effectively telling him it's postponed

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Jennifer Bendery @jbendery 8m8 minutes ago
This Pelosi move feels like classic Pelosi. Makes a public, formal request to the president to postpone SOTU. Tees it up politely. But really, she's not asking. She controls if or when SOTU happens. This is gonna drive Trump crazy.

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1. suggesting he submit it in writing is an awesome touch.

rich in historical precedent, but completely infuriating to donnie!

[Andy823]

5. He could do what he does best

Tweet it out in a few hundred tweets!

[DownriverDem]

18. Actually

past State of the Union speeches were written letters. I wouldn't listen/watch anyway.

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30. I know -- that's part of what makes suggesting it so awesome ;)

[Kali]

32. the fuckikng best part of it!

I LOVE it!!!!

[malaise]

2. Steny said it best

He was disinvited

[bigtree]

10. that was epic

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[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Raven]

4. God! she's good! She knows

how terrible his last OO speech was.

[Solly Mack]

6. There was a time when a president sent a written letter and that's all they did.

Don't have to believe me. Look up the history and protocols of the SOTU.

SoH sends an invite - or not - to the president for a speaking address before Congress.

Otherwise, a president can write a letter.

Pelosi has protocol on her side. It's her call.

Good on her!

[bigtree]

7. right, that's the history

....and it's not as if the president doesn't have access to media or some other venue to prattle on and on about his Wall.

[Solly Mack]

8. Exactly. Trump has options - let him use them or shut the fuck up about it.

Pelosi did the right thing.

[DownriverDem]

19. Yep.

I didn't see your comment and said the same thing above.

[global1]

9. His SOTU Address Would Have Been All Lies Anyway.....

We all know the SOTU is in shambles. He would have had to lie about it. In a way - Pelosi is doing Trump a favor for postponing it for him.

If the government is still shutdown by the time of the SOTU - I wonder what Trump's poll numbers will be down to by then anyway.

[DownriverDem]

20. Exactly

What's he going to say? The Government shutdown is the Democratic Party's fault. I am so tired of trump and his antics. I fear he is going to do total damage to our country.

[herding cats]

11. She's also pretty safe on this one.

People generally don't like their television viewing to be interrupted by the SOTU address. The only ones who will be upset are the hardcore Trump supporters. Who don't matter in this case anyway.

[knightmaar]

12. He could do it from the Oval Office?

That'd be perfect.

Gibber into the camera at random, without all of his hooligans to cheer him on.

[Wounded Bear]

16. He could do it from anywhere he likes, except from the House,

unless the Speaker invites him.

I think this is hilarious!

[Blecht]

13. Perfect person for the job

I love Pelosi as speaker.

[DownriverDem]

22. Me too

I so hated folks who wanted to get rid of her.

[charlyvi]

31. Her effectiveness, competence, and spine of steel is why the Repubs demonized her so intensely!

They knew she'd be this good. She was last time.

[Hekate]

14. KnR

[ooky]

15. She is not allowing the House to be used as a venue for him to deliver his lies.

Perfect move by Nancy Pelosi. I doubt she cares less if he gives it somewhere else or another way as long as its not in the House.

[Scurrilous]

17. Heh!

[left-of-center2012]

21. He can write it in Crayon !

[Pepsidog]

23. Delightful! I wouldn't watch the liar anyway, but watching her torture the Dope is fun.

[gratuitous]

24. Hey, McDonald Trump!

You gonna let a, a, a, woman order you around like that? Makes you look . . . small, you know. And kind of impotent if you don't do something right away. You want the American people laughing at your mighty sword?

[Honeycombe8]

25. Does the Speaker have that power, really?

What if the Senate wants to hold it?

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Where are our ATTORNEYS or House experts? Can they demand the returns and

how under what premise?

as to where he can hold the speech, isnt that obvious


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[Magoo48]

27. abc

a) She should apply every ounce of it now.
b) She should apply maximum pressure to all of them now.
c) She should snap her fingers now.
Every day that passes we lose more and more hard-won environmental protections which are the result of decades-long battles.
When this farcical shutdown is over, everybody better (sogotp) fast before he comes up with some more nonsense.
It’s time, everyone either has a case or they don’t. jmo

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28. Doesn't the president need to be invited to either chamber in order to enter? I have dim memory of

a high school civics class on the history of the SOTU and congressional protocol.

[usaf-vet]

29. If he pushes to do the SOTU the Democrats should have.....

either

1. signs to hold up that says "You Lie"

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or

2. even better a recording (to play) of Joe Wilson's scream heard in Obama SOTU. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/09/joe.wilson/

Pay backs!