Obama Flinched and Everyone Saw It

The Apostle Paul could have told Barack Obama that the road to Damascus is fraught with perils for the true believer. While I don't believe Obama was blinded by the light the whiplash to his sycophants both in government and his adoring media must have been some akin to an apocalypse. Since reports began to leak out that the Assad regime had killed hundreds if not thousand of civilians with nerve gas the popular press has championed the narrative that only the exalted President was competent to assess the legal and moral damage done to international standards of decency. Only Barack Hussein Obama could speak ex cathedra on matters of international morality and parse the fine difference between killing noncombatants with chemical agents as opposed to targeted drone strikes.
But a funny thing happened on the road to Damascus. The prime giver of moral law, political correctness, fuel economy standards, and free cell phones had looked about and found the multitude following him had been thinned by the ineptitude he displayed in Benghazi, the partisanship that permeated his IRS, and the mendacity exhibited by his administration as the extent of the NSA spying became known. A profoundly incompetent FBI that was warned before hand in both the Fort Hood shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing when compounded with the impending train wreck of Obamacare has exacted a toll on the trust in government necessary to govern. A full 80 percent of the once adoring throng opposed unilateral presidential action in Syria. They have lost their faith. To hell with doing great things, Mr President, please just aspire to doing the ordinary things other presidents did without fanfare or teleprompter.
The President must now abide by the will of Congress. If after Congress rejects the use of military action in Syria, and that is a strong possibility, for Obama to carry out an attack would bring about a constitutional crisis that would sicken America. If such an action were to left unchecked it would signal the end of our constitutional democracy. It would also place in danger of treason the naval and military officers who put loyalty to the commander-in-chef above the will of the governed. We don't want to go there!
The plain fact is yesterday the President flinched. Call it acceptance or call it a reality check no matter. Obama is weak and that fact has not been lost by Bashar Assad but more importantly on Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. McConnell and Boehner will find it increasingly difficult to be moderate in their dealing with the President. If he has acceded to the Congress on matters of of war why not on matters of debt? Congress not the President has the power to borrow money and one can expect to hear that point redundantly. Yesterday was the first day of the decline of Obama. May there be many more!