here is salon.com political editor blake zeff, national review senior editor and bloomberg columnist.ieb is still with us. let me go to you. all these glitches and problems mounting by the day. do you think this thing will die of its own weight or is it going to last and make it? >> well, i don't think that it's a sound strategy to wait for it to die of its own accord. it could take a long time, and it could inflict a lot of damage on its way down. i think the most likely outcome is a fairly disappointing set of results, but not a spectacular catastrophic failure all at once. >> blake zeff, not a catastrophic failure, but so many failures so, many disappointments, it's probably going to be a lot smaller than anybody dreamed. why shouldn't republicans want to amend this or even try to play rest place it? why not? >> i don't think there is any reason why they shouldn't try to amend it. i think that might be the best strategy for republicans. look, repeal is not happening. that's been tried legislatively, you know, they tried the supreme court. that didn't work out. they tried to threate

here we have blake zeff, a former obama campaign aide, politico reporter robert costa and kelly ann conwaying company. robert costa, if the vote were today or if the vote were monday, what would happen? >> larry, i just walked over here from the capitol. there was a two-hour classified briefing on syria for all members of congress. let me tell you, larry, it's a very difficult situation right now for the white house. i'm not sure this syria resolution passes the senate. and i'm pretty sure it's not going to pass the house. that leaves obama in a difficult situation. the president has to come up with the votes. i'm not sure how he's going to do it. >> you're saying you're not sure it's going to pass the senate and that it won't pass the house. the senate part of your analysis is somewhat counterconventional. you may be right. but that would be a heck of a thing if he loses both houses, if he loses both houses, i don't think he'll ever recover from that. but if he loses both houses, how is he ever going to recover from that? >> your column nailed it. obama has to spin a lot of political capi