Public opinion is dead set against military involvement in Syria and that cuts across the political spectrum. How would this improve Obama's popularity leading into 2014?
Obama doesn’t care about his popularity. He’s not up for election in 2014. All 435 house seats are. This is a high stakes gamble to get Republicans defeated in 2014. If they vote for war, he’ll wage it in a way that’ll guarantee it goes bad, and his proxies can blame the GOP for the disaster during the house campaign. If they don’t, he’s hoping thousands more kids get gassed so his media can splash that all over TV and the internet. In that case, his proxies will blame the GOP for the disaster they will say was caused by their vote not to stop that “evil” Assad from gassing his “own people”. As we saw in 2012, enough idiots could swallow whatever kool-aid they’re dispensing to turn the house, and effectively, dictatorial power for two years, over to 0.