Um, scuse me…. pardon me… um, wasn’t there, well, going to be a debate or something…. Seems like they’ve already made up their minds and it’s all just a foregone conclusion at this point.     Someone want to tell me what’s the difference between Republican and Democrat again?

President Barack Obama says he expects to get congressional approval for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
“I am,” Obama said when asked if he’s confident the White House will win the upcoming vote in Congress.  Obama spoke before a White House meeting Tuesday morning with key members of the congressional leadership.  (link)
A former US army chief has claimed that Barack Obama is eyeing intervention in Syria that would go beyond a mere deterrent against chemical weapons to damage the military capacity of the Assad regime.  (link)

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Monday that it would be “catastrophic” if a use-of-force resolution against Syria fails to pass Congress.
“A rejection of this resolution would be catastrophic, not just for him but for the institution of the presidency and the credibility of the United States,” McCain said after meeting with President Barack Obama. (link)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz –  “In both military and diplomatic and political support, there are dozens of nations who had committed to back us up,” she said.
However, Wasserman Schultz said she was not a “liberty to say” specifically what countries have expressed supporting in missile strikes, because some of the information she received was classified.  (link)
John Boehner

Eric Cantor  – “I intend to vote to provide the President of the United States the option to use military force in Syria. While the authorizing language will likely change, the underlying reality will not. America has a compelling national security interest to prevent and respond to the use of weapons of mass destruction, especially by a terrorist state such as Syria, and to prevent further instability in a region of vital interest to the United States”.  (link)

Nancy Pelosi  –  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the use of chemical weapons was “something that, from a humanitarian standpoint, cannot be ignored” and called the Syrian attack “outside the circle of civilized behavior.”   “We must respond,” Pelosi said.