Syria Vote Will Be Remembered

First Read: “The authorization vote is going to live — for years and years. That’s what happened with the Iraq authorization vote in 2002. It didn’t hurt Democrats immediately (after all, John Kerry won the Democratic nomination in ’04 after voting for the authorization). But it came back to bite Democrats — most notably Hillary Clinton — in 2007-2008. It’s a reminder that the true consequence of the vote could be in the long term.”

Meanwhile, Greg Sargent notes the “consensus emerging from the media coverage today is that
Congressional passage of authorization for the use of force in Syria has
grown somewhat more likely.”