Posted on 09/05/2013 7:05:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
If the House voted today on a resolution to attack Syria, President Barack Obama would lose — and lose big.
That’s the private assessment of House Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides who are closely involved in the process.
If the Senate passes a use-of-force resolution next week — which is no sure thing — the current dynamics suggest that the House would defeat it. That would represent a dramatic failure for Obama, and once again prove that his sway over Congress is extraordinarily limited. The loss would have serious reverberations throughout the next three months, when Obama faces off against Congress in a series of high-stakes fiscal battles.
Several Republican leadership aides, who are counting votes but not encouraging a position, say that there are roughly one to two dozen “yes” votes in favor of military action at this time. The stunningly low number is expected to grow a bit.
But senior aides say they expect, at most, between 50 and 60 Republicans to vote with Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who support the president’s plan to bomb Syria to stop Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons on his people. That would amount to less than one-third of the House Republican Conference.
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She’s pissed cause BO finally looks like the stupid idiot that she has known he is all along and it might affect her vacays.
0bama logic: We have to bomb Syria in order to save it!
I wish this was sarcasm.
Prayers to stop WWIII are up.
See my post #144..this may explain it.
They revived a clip from the 2012 debate where when asked what they would do with Syria, Ryan responds with ‘” A Romney/Ryan administration would send American troops into Libya and ‘secure’ their chemical weapons”
Yep, so easy, no fuss no muss. Just go in, get them, then get out. Everything is easy when you are the boy wonder. Like balancing the budget.
I cant imagine how Romney could lose once he picked Ryan/
Try
Ryan responds with ‘” A Romney/Ryan administration would send American troops into Syria and ‘secure’ their chemical weapons”
He BETTER Lose BIG!! I will NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE who VOTES for this FIASCO!!!
Everything he has touched in the Middle East has turned to CHAOS!!!!! Just like he WANTS!!
Yes, but does it matter what the “little people” in the House want....or the Senate for that matter.
The United States has pretty much become a Progressive dictatorship under DER FUHRER Adolf Obama!
So if Fearless Leader wants to start WW III over Syria, then who is to stop him?
The Pope?
The idiot deserves to lose big.
As Hemingway told in For Whom the Bell Tolls, rebels are always the good guys.
Oh, wait... The commies were behind the rebels fighting against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. But let's ignore inconvenient details. Ironic how Russia is now helping the Syrian govt.
Boehner is a huge blow.
“It would also be a huge blow to Boehner.”
IMHO, Mooch doesn't care much about the MB. She's more a combination of Black Power and a black Marie Antionette. I think the MB is Barack and Valerie's hobby.
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