So yeah. Republican "aides and lawmakers” are considering the idea of “refusing to invite the president to give his State of the Union address.”
If Speaker of the House John Boehner does indeed go ahead and tell the first black President of the United States that he is "not welcome in our chamber," The People's House, then I imagine the President and his advisors will have to start a search for a different venue to deliver the address. It could of course be delivered perfectly well from the Oval Office of the White House, which was, in any case, the People's House before the House of Representatives wing of the Capitol existed.
But... the President could also consider a very different location from which to convey his plans and hopes for the country in the coming year, and his assessment of the current state of our Union. He might prefer someplace else that is also a true people's home, always open and welcoming to all members of the community, and all other citizens, and non-citizens, who care to enter. A place that is a vital component of one of the three most important foundational institutions of American democracy.
If the officials in charge desire it, the President could choose to deliver his next address to the country from...
The Ferguson Municipal Public Library.
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In the main hall. Right there among the stacks.
The only Presidential guests will be the Brown family, and the Wilson family, if the Browns will accept and endure that. The majority of the small number of invitees will be from the immediate community. The much smaller list of dignitaries will include the First and Second Families, Attorney General Holder, Justices Ginsburg and Thomas, or Scalia if Thomas declines, the Missouri delegation and the Governor, the leaders Boehner, McCarthy, Pelosi, McConnell and Reid. The only other representatives from the US Congress will be Representative John Lewis and the Sergeant at Arms. One pool feed, one pool photographer, and a half dozen reporters, two of them from Ferguson and St. Louis.
The date of the address will be slightly early this year: Monday, January 19.
This event can give the President and the community an opportunity to begin to repair the Broken Arch.