Has a golden opportunity arisen by default?

Few things in this world unfold in a perfectly linear, much less perfect, fashion.  Blessings generally manifest themselves in situations where we've just had a bite of a you-know-what sandwich.
Consider the cesspool of humiliation into which the MEC is wading.  Nile Gardiner at The Telegraph lays it out in wince-inducingly detailed bullet points:

1. The president hasn’t made a convincing case why a Syria intervention is in the US national interest. He has also sent a confusing messageover his ‘red line’ over Syria’s use of chemical weapons, declaring in Sweden that this wasn’t his red line, but that of the international community.

2. Public opinion is hugely sceptical over a Syrian intervention, with Members of Congress inundated with calls from constituents wary of war. There is very little public appetite for another war in the Middle East, not least one where the goals and objectives are unclear.

3. President Obama’s international coalition for military action is looking pretty pathetic, with only France signing up. The British have wisely decided to stay out, and no other NATO allies have stepped forward to offer military assistance. Obama looks increasingly isolated on the world stage, and that matters to US lawmakers. America remains the world’s only superpower, but it always prefers to go to war with allies at its side. As Margaret Thatcher once put it, “the United States needs friends in the lonely task of world leadership.”

4. The Obama administration’s case hasn’t been helped by extremely bad publicity for Syria’s rebel movement, some factions of which are aligned with al-Qaeda. A searing piece in The New York Times this week revealed (with video footage) the brutal execution of captured Syrian government forces by Islamist militants. There has also been significant coverage in the American media of rebel attacks on Christian villages, imagery that hardly plays well in Middle America.

5. Secretary of State John Kerry has been a liability, not an asset, for President Obama. Kerry has been entrusted with leading the Administration’s charge for war, making the case before the House and Senate, as well as the American public. Kerry, however, has been a notorious appeaser of the Assad regime, and worked tirelessly to undercut efforts by the Bush Administration to isolate Assad’s Baathist dictatorship. Photographs of Kerry intimately dining with the Assads in Damascus have hardly helped his case.

6. Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has remained largely silent on the Syria issue. One of her aides claims she is backing Obama’s push for war, but she hasn’t taken to the airwaves to support the president. Whatever her reasons for staying Mum, Clinton’s absence has probably lost the president some Congressional backing among Democratic waverers.
7. Obama’s campaign on Syria hasn’t been helped by declining support among Americans for his overall foreign policy. The “Obama doctrine” has been a striking failure on the world stage, from the disastrous Russian “reset”, to the lack of US leadership in the Middle East. The president’s handling of international affairs is increasingly viewed negatively by Americans, with just 41 percent of voters backing his foreign policy according to a recent poll.

8. Barack Obama simply doesn’t come across as a war leader, one who instills confidence both at home and abroad. He has a well-earned reputation for apologising for his country on foreign soil, and extending the hand of friendship to America’s enemies, from Tehran to Khartoum. His traditionally Jimmy Carter-esque approach simply doesn’t square with his new found desire to start bombing a foreign land. In the eyes of the American people, he’s not exactly General Patton. 

Not a good scenario generally for our nation.  But is there a silver lining?  The other main issue before those who still understand freedom and believe, against a barrage of evidence to the contrary, that American greatness is not permanently gone, is how to repeal Freedom-Hater-care.  Heritage Action, The Madison Project, Americans for Prosperity and other such groups are working feverishly to convince a critical mass of  Congresspeople to defund it before the exchange are up and running at the beginning of next month. Is not our hand strengthened by the MEC's squandering of his political capital?  The Syrian matter has consumed so much oxygen in our national conversation, and left such a bad taste in so many mouths, that defying the man who embodies the full foulness of the FHer enterprise may actually be something that can be extended to another important issue.

Might this be the ideal time to pounce?