Here’s a little more context for you on President Obama’s bizarre and reality-belying “I didn’t set the red line, the world set the red line” comment yesterday. After Tuesday’s meeting at the White House with members of Congress, it’s becoming more and more evident that the votes push through his use of force resolution for Syria are going to be pretty tough to come by — and if our reluctant commander-in-chief is really relying on Congress to help him spread the responsibility around and overcome the practically nonexistent public support, as House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon suggested on CNBC last night… well, good luck with that.

John Kerry mentioned in his hearing yesterday that he thinks Obama is totally open to doing a big Oval Office address. …I’m skeptical, and if it does happen, I would expect once again that it won’t be about what Obama himself needs to do but about what Congress needs to do for him.