House Progressives Look To Team Up With Tea Party On Syria Vote

[DonViejo]

DYLAN SCOTT SEPTEMBER 5, 2013, 4:20 PM

As the struggle to secure House votes for or against authorization for military strikes in Syria accelerates, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has started making plans to team up with isolationist conservatives to stop the resolution, TPM has learned.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has become the leader of the progressive resistance. He is planning an “ad hoc whip operation,” as he called it in a phone interview with TPM. That includes supplying other aligned members with talking points and giving them the names of undecided colleagues to lobby for a no vote.

Grayson’s office has also been in touch with staffs for Republicans who oppose military action against Syria, such as tea party favorite Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), about crafting an organized strategy for lobbying no votes.

The White House’s repeated briefings on Syria aren’t having the desired effect on members, Grayson told TPM, while the constituents have been clogging congressional phone lines with opposition to military authorization.

full article
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/09/obama-is-losing-progressives-on-syria.php?ref=fpb

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Good. Common ground against the entrenched kleptocracy.

[David__77]

2. Excellent. We need to OVERWHELMINGLY defeat this.

It shouldn't even be close.

[MotherPetrie]

3. Never thought I'd be saying this in a million years but... sounds good to me.

[truebluegreen]

4. Good.

But I'll have to be shopping for a neck brace.

[Tx4obama]

5. Looks like the world has gone f'ing nuts!!!

Wonder what Grayson, the progressives, and the tea partiers are going to say when more children have been killed when Assad decides to gas more of them.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. You speak as if bombing guarantees no more children killed. That's absurd. First your bombs

will kill people, including kids. What will you say then? And if Assad answers bombings with more gassing, what will you say then?
Folks who will drop bombs while claiming they do so to save the people they are attacking are confused folks, at the very least. You are supporting not the end of killing, but the escalation of killing, for you desire that our nation should join in on the killing.
You should at least have the maturity to say what it is you want. It is disgusting to pretend you know bombing is a solution rather than just throwing more fuel on the fire when you know no such thing.
You post is morally absent, without a shred of honesty.

[Tippy]

10. I wonder the same... tea party and progressives not a combination I care for

[geek tragedy]

11. Same things everyone here was saying when the first 100K died in Syria.

Nothing. Not our problem.

[polichick]

6. Good. Coalitions get things done.

[annabanana]

8. A truly irresistible coalition. LOOK OUT, BOSSES.

Where these two agree, there is no possible resistance. Populism will out.

[polichick]

13. Now is the time for this party to truly embrace populism...

because the public will embrace it wherever they can find it.

Either Dems serve the people or the party is no longer viable.

[proverbialwisdom]

9. U.S. senators, congressmen from New Jersey weigh in on Syria decision

http://newjersey.news12.com/news/u-s-senators-congressmen-from-new-jersey-weigh-in-on-syria-decision-1.6018969

U.S. senators, congressmen from New Jersey weigh in on Syria decision
Originally published: September 5, 2013 4:38 PM
Updated: September 5, 2013 5:54 PM

http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/tag/democrats/

Rep Holt: With Each White House Syria Answer, ‘The Less Satisfied I Am’ (Video)
Sep 5, 2013
By John T. Bennet

[bigwillq]

12. Good for Grayson! SOS!

Stay outta Syria!