Boehner used like a puppet on a string by Netanyahu who initiated the now disastrous 'invitation'

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98. Not quite true. This is unprecedented.

Foreign leaders have spoken to Congress before but never by bypassing the State Dept. and the President.

These kinds of invitations normally go through the State Department, which is part of the executive branch.

It's never been done.

No other head of state would even consider working with the Speaker behind the President's back to pull such a stunt — leave this kind of thing to Boner and Bibi, a comedy team if I ever heard of one.

They're both being chastised by several European countries and critics in Israel for their foolish misadventure.

This speech will never come off and even now they're trying to figure a face-saving way to get out of it, as witnessed by the date being "pushed back" to March instead of February.

After this initial furor has died down it'll be quietly announced that the speech is off, probably citing scheduling conflict due to the election in Israel.

And the announcement will most likely happened purposedly in a Friday afternoon news dump when the media and most pols pay the least attention as they try to get out of Dodge for the weekend.