Liberal enforcers like Reps. Rosa DeLauro, George Miller, Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo aren’t on board, at least not yet. And it won’t be easy to convince them, since all four are doves who voted against the Iraq War authorization in 2002.
It makes a tough situation worse for Pelosi, who is already in the unenviable position of needing to win Democratic votes to support her president in a military strike — at a time when her party, and her country, have no desire for another foreign entanglement.
Obama will need the bulk of Democrats to support him in the House, since Republicans have shown little interest in following John Boehner’s lead in supporting Obama.
“No, I have not decided on how I will vote yet,” DeLauro told POLITICO Wednesday after participating in a Progressive Caucus conference call briefing. “I’m going to continue to review the intelligence in the coming week and along with reviewing that intelligence what I’m going to continue to do is listen to the case the administration is making and I want to listen to the debate in Congress and what’s happening at the Senate hearings.”
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