Only one of the top five members of the bipartisan congressional hierarchy still sits on the fence about launching a punitive strike against Syria: Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader.

The Kentucky Republican emerged from the White House on Monday as the only member of the bicameral leadership group still uncommitted to voting in favor of legislation authorizing military action.

McConnell looks to be taking as much time as he can. He’s weighing his political considerations back home, where an isolationist stance would provide clear short-term benefit, against the pressures of his leadership role at the Capitol, where he’s spent almost three decades as a Republican voice for a hawkish defense posture and an interventionist foreign policy.

The senator was one of the group of a dozen Hill leaders who spent an hour in the Cabinet Room hearing President Barack Obama and his aides lay out their case for why Congress should endorse plans for missile strikes, the president’s proposed response to last month’s chemical weapons attack outside Damascus. The attacks killed more than 1,000 people and, the administration says, was surely the work of Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime.

Speaker John A. Boehner and House GOP Leader Eric Cantor both emerged to declare they would vote to support the president, offering crucial support in the corner of the Capitol where Obama’s Syria plan (along with everything else he proposes) faces the most skepticism.

Both of the Hill’s top Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, reiterated their solid support for what the president wants.

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Read more:http://blogs.rollcall.com/hawkings/micth...on-syria-fence/

Ooh, a fence-sitter! How BRAVE!

Mitch really wants to win reelection so he is non-commital

why don't these horse's asses listen to their constituents?

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He is engaged in thoughtful, independent-minded analysis, the hallmark of a true leader.

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He is engaged in thoughtful, independent-minded analysis, the hallmark of a true leader.

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Because their constituents haven't briefed with highly classified intel.

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Because their constituents haven't briefed with highly classified intel.

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What intel? The shit the Regime is peddling even before the inspectors have released their findings? There is no intel other than the fact that this has absolutely no bearing on American interests at home or abroad.

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This is all about those in Washington Republicans incuded Don't Want to See Obama "Shamed and Humiliated on the National Stage”

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This is all about those in Washington Republicans incuded Don't Want to See Obama "Shamed and Humiliated on the National Stage”

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Republicns love this country too much to do that.

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