Regarding O'mahdi grappling with putting military action to a vote in Congress...
"Rice, a member of the White House staff, was in the room. But Kerry and
Hagel were only informed about the decision later that night during
phone calls from the president. "All power flows from and into the White
House," said Aaron David Miller, a former adviser to Democratic and
Republican administrations and current vice president at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars. "He's relied, not
surprisingly, on a very close circle of trusted advisers. He really is a
controlling foreign policy president."
Wouldn't/shouldn't expect any less from the leader of the New World...