NEW YORK POST
by Rich Lowry
January 26, 2015

….According to David Rogers of Politico, the speaker’s office had tried to coordinate with the White House on a prior invitation to Netanyahu, back in 2011, and got no response. More to the point: The speaker leads a co-equal branch of government. He can invite or not invite anyone he wants, up to and including the president, who is only invited to give the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress as a matter of tradition. He can invite Phil Robertson or Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the pope, just as he pleases. The speaker shouldn’t have to wait for White House sign-off for his invitations to address the House any more than the White House should coordinate with him whom it invites into the Oval Office. The invitation kerfuffle is all the more ridiculous because it involves a friend of the United States. READ MORE