On Your Best Behavior

Cause we have guests, you see.

House GOP leaders are urging fellow Republicans to control their tempers and avoid any repeat performances of Joe Wilson’s “you lie” outburst at tonight’s State of the Union speech.

House Republican leaders warned rank and file Republican members in a private meeting this morning to show the President “respect” during tonight’s speech, two sources familiar with the meeting tell me.

House GOP leader John Boehner, minority whip Eric Cantor, and leading House conservative Mike Pence all stood up and delivered that message to the closed-door House GOP caucus meeting today.

“All of them talked about how the President is a guest,” one senior House GOP aide who was there tells me.

And every single one of them is aware of how Joe Wilson is a Goddamn American Hero among the teabagger set and raised a million bucks for his campaign because of his outburst.

And every single one of them is thinking "You know, it's probably worth it anyway..."