BLOOMBERG: No U.S. president has ever been turned down by Congress when asking to use military force.
President Barack Obama doesn’t want to become the first. To avoid that with a request for military action in Syria, he’ll have to win over war-weary Democrats, Tea Party members who don’t see a threat to U.S. interests and other lawmakers who want more details and more time.
Obama has supporters on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. Senate, where he’ll need a handful of Republican votes. It’s a tougher path in the House, where an alliance of Tea Party members and left-leaning Democrats is coalescing against using force in Syria. » | Michael C. Bender & Roxana Tiron | Tuesday, September 03, 2013
