This is not time to give up....write your congressman again telling him you have no interest in going to war over Syria, not now, not tomorrow. What El Dope is going to ask for is a resolution from the Congress that if HE does not agree with the pace of what happens regarding WMD in Syria, HE can launch.
I am sure he got the message
But Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat who represents one of the most Democratic and pro-Obama districts in the country, also reports deep resistance among his constituents.
In a Thursday interview with Michel Martin, host of NPR’s Tell Me More, Cummings said he's encountered near-universal opposition in his Baltimore-based district — a place that delivered landslide victories to Obama both in 2008 and in 2012.
“We are in a situation where, first of all, 95 — probably 97 percent — of everybody who calls my office and emails my office — and this, by the way, I come from a district which was about 85 percent for President Obama — [is] saying ‘no.’ And walking in here today to my office, I had a nurse ... at Johns Hopkins who's been there for 17 years, begged me not to vote for this bill.