The folks who write Saturday Night Live scripts could not have put a finer point on the political hilarity of Monday Sept. 9th any better than what bore out in real life.
First you have Secretary of State, John Kerry, speaking in London ( <- luckily) early in the day, answering a question, and say mockingly: “if Assad gave up his chemical weapons then we would not strike Syria“.

“Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week – turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting (of it). “But he isn’t about to do it and it can’t be done.”

This gaffe was jumped on by the Ruskies who said “OK, we’ll take the WMD, Syria will not be able to use it” therefore problem solved.
What happens next is the stuff of SNL legend (watch video)

Later in the day, during the evolution to chase an escape route for Obama, as a sudden recognition of the visible exit surfaced, the gaffe became a Tommy Finnegan moment…  “Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket….  take down the chemical stuff with diplomacy,.. yeah, we, um, of course, we were planning that all along“.
Uh, huh.

Knowing the current course of a Congressional Vote was doomed, and sensing the impending implosion of the entire 2nd term credibility of his boss, Denis “The Fixer” McDonough, President Obama’s Chief of Staff, quickly called congressional reps to the White House and asked them how would they respond to the “gaffe” proposal?

Of course McDonough’s presentation was *as if* it, the gaffe, were actually an intended consequence.
Sensing an out, the President adjusted his plea for a congressional vote, and began giving interviews *as if* this diplomatic solution was his plan all along.
Here is one of six interviews he gave, this one with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer:

According to Blitzer, immediately following the interview one of POTUS handlers emphasized that Blitzer needed to “report strongly” the diplomatic solution was actually begun, as in “proposed by”, President Obama in Russia at the G20 Summit to Vladimir Putin.

“Yeah, Yeah…, that’s the ticket”

What’s yet to be determined – is whether or not Vlad Putin is about to use another SNL character, “Hans“, against President Obama.

Will Putin mock challenge dare girly man President Obama to have a vote in his own congress? ….   Tune in tonight at 9:00pm