In a break with tradition, Tea Party Republicans issued their official rebuttal to tonights State of the Union address a full twelve hours before President Obama was scheduled to deliver it. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) appeared on Fox News Channel at 9 A.M. (E.T.) to read the rebuttal, which some historians called the most brutal response ever to a Presidential speech that had not yet been made. Calling Mr. Obamas speech full of the same empty promises and bald-faced lies weve come to expect, Sen. Paul added that tonight Barack Obama made his case: for his own impeachment. Laced with sarcasm and invective, Sen. Pauls rebuttal eviscerated Mr. Obamas not-yet-given speech, ending with a call for the President to be tried for treason and banished from the U.S. Roger Ailes, President of Fox News Channel, defended the decision to air a blistering attack on a speech that Mr. Obama was not scheduled to give for another twelve hours: Our viewers are very unlikely to sit through Barack Obamas State of the Union address. Airing the rebuttal beforehand gives them a sense of what they would have thought was reprehensible about it. For his part, Sen. Paul made no apologies for calling a speech he had never actually heard worthy of President Ahmadinejad. Look, if I had waited to listen to the speech, I bet I would have hated it even more. 