Obama going to Congress might have been the best political move

[kentuck]

17. It was "political" all along...

...ever since the President used the "red line" comment. There have been 100,000 people killed in this civil war in Syria and many of them were women and children. War is ugly. Is this last 1000 more ugly than the first 99,000?

Republicans chose to make it political. So the President is playing the game. You want to play politics, we'll just have a vote on it. We'll see if you can put your money where your mouth is?

At the same time, he reserves the right to attack under the War Powers Act.

What can the Repubs do? They have been calling Obama weak and ineffective. How can they possibly vote against a strike against Syria?

Their only hope is that enough Democrats will vote against it that a majority of Republicans will not have to vote against it. Then they can argue that their Party wanted to strike Syria but the majority of Democrats stymied them, along with a few Republicans.

No doubt about it. It's politics.