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Posted on 09/07/2013 11:32:41 AM PDT by neverdem
It is very possible that the president will not obtain a join authorization to bomb Syria; if he chooses to go ahead and attack anyway, Obama will incite a constitutional crisis—the first time in history that a president has decided to go to war against the declared wishes of Congress. The public and the courts will adjudicate the legality of that act, and it would be contentious.
So the corner that Obama has painted himself into is now inescapable. Defying Congress will put the country into a Watergate/Monicagate mess. Not doing anything will confirm the administration’s impotence and only enhance Russia, Iran, Assad, China, Islamists, and almost anyone else who does not like the U.S...
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If the congressional vote is, as I hope, no, Obama should quietly (i.e., don’t blame Congress, the world, the public, etc.) back out of the bombing mode, more quietly continue the belated work of promoting a pro-Western resistance to Assad, mend fences with allies most quietly, and prepare very carefully (but without the bombast) for a real crisis on the near horizon that will need the public, the Congress, our allies, and the president’s full attention and response. In our new Vienna-summit-to-Cuban-missile-crisis era of danger, I fear our enemies and rivals are digesting the Syrian misadventure and calibrating to what degree they might soon turn our present psychodrama into a real American tragedy.
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It’s going to get interesting.
IMHO Obama will not attack if there is a no vote. That was the whole point. If it’s no he can blame the Republicans, regardless of how many Democrats vote against. He will say they have undercut the credibility of the USA, don’t care about gassed civilians, and anything that happens in Syria is their fault. If they vote yes, then when it goes bad he can say it was bipartisan. Either way, it’s “not my fault”, which is always Obama’s first concern.
If the courts adjudicate it, Obama will have no problem. He owns the courts, up to and including the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice.
“Defying Congress will put the country into a Watergate/Monicagate mess.”
No it wouldn’t. The media and Republicans won’t let that happen.
The best response from Congress is no response. The best vote is no vote. It may compel Obama to urge Congress to vote and the House can just ignore him. Then they can go full bore into the debt ceiling battle and hopefully the defund Obamacare battle. Either of those will give momentum to conservatives for the 1014 election.
NO VOTE ON IMMIGRATION!
NO VOTE ON SYRIA!
A title search didn’t find it. Thanks for the link.
Well, you didn’t add the vdh keyword ... no wonder it gets posted again. Have we all forgotten how to index?
Obama can’t do anything quietly. He can only do what massages his ego - which means public approbation, to fill the abyss of character he knows is his true self.
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