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Both parties split by foreign policy. under bush those definitions went amp, came partisan going into iraq and afghanistan and really pointing to party lines. now the old coalitions, libertarians and doves getting together from the two sides and the hawks and bleeding hearts getting together and you have these two sort of split parties. a lot will be in terms of driving majorities, a lot will have to be loyalty to the president. some will be very strange bed fellow coalitions which brought us into war with kosovo and somalia and other places but reformed again natural foreign policy. what is nancy pelosi going to do? nancy pelosi could really deliver votes. is she going to be on board with this? she is on board. pelosi is on board. here is what is remarkable. boehner has told obama he s going to give a vote. everyone out there you might think, what s the big deal. doesn t everything get a vote? ....
Invade kuwait, set a deadline, started amassing troops in the desert. congress started saying, no, we want to authorize this, we want a vote, before the january 15th vote he said we re going to put it to congress for the vote. i m not saying i ll abide but we ll put it to the vote. his message sounded similar to what obama said about the vote. i think iraq has demonstrated no flexibility whatsoever, and i think the meeting we re having here today now takes on even greater importance because i would like to see congress send a strong signal they want united nations supported. the idea of sending a strong unified signal this is not what the president wants but united states government wants, united states wants. jane, that vote ended up being ....
Lawmakers coming out, many of them praising the president s decision. of course, when you actually put this to a vote, some of the lawmakers who said, yeah, this is a good idea. we want to vote on it. we re going to vote no. this is tricky. the white house is saying even if congress votes no, there is still an avenue for president obama to pursue launch a military strike against syria. the politics of that gets more complicated. certainly there s a big question mark surrounding what congress is going to do. it is very uncertain this will pap through a sharply divided body. thanks. really good information. thanks. stephen, to pick up on what kristen is reporting. maybe if we lose the vote, still a chance to take action. what triggered this decision by obama was what happened to britain. they took the vote, lost the ....
And criticize whatever the president does. now the congress is going to have to step up and say, okay, we wanted this vote. we re going to face it, take the vote and understand that these votes are going to be on our record. we re going to have to live with it. you know, it s not going to be easy. i d just as soon not go on the record on it but i m ready to do it. i think that s our responsibility. that s what the people sent us down here to do. all right. senator angus king in brunswick, i think my parents are right down the road from you today. thanks for joining us this morning. we ll pick it up and talk about all these senators and members of congress going on the record. we ll look at that when we come back. for max volume. the volume igniter brush shapes lashes up and out so you get bigger, hotter, totally maxed out volume. hot enough for you? [ female announcer ] new flamed out mascara from easy breezy beautiful ....
It s interesting what steve just said, though. 80% of the public wants congress to approve this. the same public that gives congress 6% approval rating. maybe ted cruz really wants to vote on this. how much does congress really want to vote on this? i think what s telling is he didn t give a position. that is what you re going to hear for the next few days. people are going to relish the idea, we made him come to us for a vote. fine. where do you stand? especially for this crop of senators running in 2016, that s a big question. the iraq war helped define president obama as a presidential candidate. these are big votes. they are usually this is a yes or no vote on a simple draft i saw the draft that came out last night in the declaration. you can t say there are clauses and autographs and paragraphs ....