Our elected Senators and Representatives will now hold hands and sing Kumbaya during the State of the Union address.Well, not exactly, but a so-called bi-partisan effort is underway to depart from the traditional divided seating for this year's address.  With one-half of the bi-partisanship on the Senate side being Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, and the other half including New York's Charles Schumer, the cynics among us may be forgiven.Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics reports:"The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution," Murkowski and Udall wrote in an open letter to their colleagues. "And the message that it sends is that even on a night when the President is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two."By inference, the letter seems to be saying that decades of previous Congressional tradition are unbecoming of a serious...(Read Full Post)