[headless_thompson_gunner]

I shudder, shudder, I tell you, at the reprisals they will face at the hands of our president for such an egregious act of provocation...

[RC one]

This is all because he declined to bow to the king. He shouldn’t have backed away from his red line but he wasn’t willing to step into the political nightmare that would have ensued had he gone into Syria. This is one more example of him putting the welfare of his party before the welfare of the country.