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Originally Posted by dyna mo
Politically, if Obama wins Congressional authorization to bomb Syria in a squeaker vote, he will have used so much political capital that there may be little left for the upcoming fights over the budget and the debt ceiling, and Congressional Democrats will likely have lost whatever chance they have of retaking the House in 2014 and guaranteed years more of Washington gridlock and inaction on the nation's pressing problems
if Obama becomes the first president in modern history to lose such a Congressional vote, he immediately becomes a lame duck for the remaining three years of his term.
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I'm not sure I buy int political capital being used up on one fight and available for a later fight. Each fight is its own beast. The people are not behind bombing Syria and if the democrats go against their will and vote to approve the use of force it will hurt them. However, when it comes to the budget and debt ceiling those are different fights with different feelings.
I do think the democrats will not regain the house. After the republican redistricting that took place and some of the voter suppression laws that have passed in the last couple of years it will take a herculean effort by the dems and serious mistakes by the repubs for the democrats to take back the house. The senate is another story and likely could go either way and the white house is a long way off, but looks bad for republicans.