House and Senate Tea Partiers roll out new apesh*t response to House leaders attempt to climb down from Obamacare government shutdown threat.
There’s an unseemly amount of Republican glee that Putin may have pulled a fast one on President Obama. But I’m not at all clear that Putin’s new line puts things back at square one. Not at all. What’s clear, as we noted earlier, is that Russia does not want a Chapter 7 resolution on Syrian chemical weapons – which would essentially mean one that came prepackaged with a UN use of force authorization if Syria didn’t fully comply (compliance the US, for instance, could choose to determine on its own.) But a UN mandated disarmament is still on the table. The US still has a lot of opportunities to work with here. Now’s when we’ll see how deft or not Obama’s foreign policy team really is. Let’s see how this plays out.
Granted, divorce cases are usually messy, but this one involving Gaston Glock Sr. of the Glock gun company goes above and beyond.
LAVROV: PROPOSAL OF FRANCE TO ADOPT UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION IN LINE WITH CHAPTER 7 ON SYRIA UNACCEPTABLE http://t.co/qyyRxRdhaa
— Interfax News (IFAX) (@IFAXnews) September 10, 2013
Translated this would mean that Russia won’t countenance a use of force trigger for any Syrian chemical weapons plan. That’s going to be the rub.
From TPM Reader BP …
I have some connection with our Department of External Affairs and International Trade. I understand China have given the nod to the Russian proposal; and that the Syrians have indicated acceptance. I know all the instant analyses by talking heads makes it difficult to know what is actually happening. I have stopped watching CNN but while surfing saw Wolf B talking to Gloria Borger.
I think many of us who were watching the build-up to the Syria vote are still trying to get our heads around just what happened yesterday. And I strongly suspect that a lot of folks at the White House are doing the same, though perhaps we’ll find out differently as the story develops. But whether there was more of a plan than we think or this was just a clunky deus ex machina interrupting a play we all knew the end of, yesterday’s developments were actually a very big deal, for reasons I tried to sketch out early yesterday.
Let’s set aside for the moment the domestic political implications for Obama, that this new track (at least for the moment) gets him out of a painful climb-down or congressional defeat. Read More
State Republican officials say Republicans obstruction in Congress is holding up their voter suppression efforts back home.
Whether it’s a real angle to scuttle Syria’s chemical weapons or a highwire climb down on what looked like a bleak outlook on Capitol Hill, this is a really big development. President Obama is saying that Syria votes/strikes are on hold while they explore a potential diplomatic solution tied to an attempt to take international control of Syria’s chemical stockpiles and eventually destroy them.
See my post on the possibility from early this afternoon.
3 year old girl fatally shot with father’s handgun at Yellowstone – three years ago ban on firearms in national parks was lifted.