“Boehner wants (obviously) to prevent a full-blown regime crisis.”
A vote puts anyone voting “Yes” in the almost immediate position of being primaried, including Republicans.
We SHOULD be calling Obama and those following him on the carpet by voting. We will never have a better chance to get rid of some of his Democrat sycophants in the House than right now.
Where this is going is seriously beyond the party politics of it.
If Obama wants to attack Syria and Congress issues an AUMF, we’re good. (Very bad policy, but the State remains in place).
If Obama wants to attack Syria and Congress says “no”, and he then doesn’t attack Syria, we’re also still good.
But if Congress votes him down and he does it anyway, and Congress does not impeach and remove him, we have a major, full-blown, world-historical crisis (world-historical because of the stature of the US). What would happen then, no one knows.