re: #31 Amory Blaine

Anyone expect Boehner to rally votes for Syria?

Nope, nobody expects that.

It’s a safe guess that OFA’s hands-off stance isn’t exactly what Speaker John Boehner had in mind when he said on Tuesday that he supported the president’s planned Syrian strike but that it was up to the president to do the hard lobbying needed to get the votes in Congress.

It’s going to be really hard for the “massive Republican fail” theme to take hold on this one. Obama fumbled, probably not enough support among Dems to pass a resolution even with Republican help. I’m really not happy with this, it’s a clusterfuck, it’s embarrassing and it’s likely to cause a lot of problems down the road.