Obama REFUSES To Rule Out Striking Syria Without Approval Of Congress As It's Revealed He Faces A Huge Loss In House Vote -- Daily Mail
President Obama today refused to rule out attacking Syria as new polls show he faces a crushing defeat in any vote in Congress.
An ABC News reporter at the G20 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, tried to pin him down and get a 'direct response' to the question of what he will do if his gambit seeking congressional approval fails.
'I'm not going to engage in parlor games now ... about whether or not it's going to pass,' he said.
But while he acknowledged knowing his Syria gambit with Congress was 'going to be a heavy lift' all along, the president insisted that he didn't 'put this before Congress just as a political ploy or as symbolism.'
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My Comment: For the moment .... I doubt that he will ignore Congress ..... especially if the NO vote is large. But I also expect a situation in which if the NO vote is going to win .... the leaders in Congress may not even permit a Congressional vote to proceed.