S.C. Rep. Clyburn rejects doomsday predictions for Democrats

[babylonsister]

S.C. Rep. Clyburn rejects doomsday predictions for Democrats

By James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON — House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn emerged from a strategy meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday and defied doomsday predictions of sweeping Democratic defeat in November.

Clyburn said Obama and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate were upbeat at the White House session to discuss election prospects and craft a legislative agenda for the lame-duck session after the Nov. 2 elections.

"Everybody was upbeat," Clyburn told McClatchy. "The president was upbeat, we were upbeat, our members who left (Washington) last night were upbeat. As I travel the country, I don't hear all this gloom and doom out there that everybody's talking about."

After the White House meeting, Clyburn huddled with Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine, a former Virginia governor, to discuss election prospects.

With most analysts predicting that Republicans will regain control of the House, Clyburn said Democratic control will hold — though with a narrower margin.

The Columbia, S.C., Democrat foresees the number of Democratic seats dropping from its current level of 254 to about 234.

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[vaberella]

1. I've said from the get go Clyburn that Dems will sweep and we will!!!

Rock on the vote!!

[Larry Ogg]

2. WTF

"Clyburn said Obama and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate were upbeat at the White House session to discuss election prospects and craft a legislative agenda for the lame-duck session after the Nov. 2 elections." I think now is the time we are supposed to say Yippee...

I bet things will be so much easier to not accomplish something major after the lame-duck session starts. It's like they have been waiting for two years to have an excuse for not looking like they were trying to do something significant... Like for instance preserving the Republican Party and making sure they didn't blame the Democratic Party for bankrupting and destroying the economy. Well hopefully the insignificant other little accomplishments that people find so important will preserve the illusion of two significantly different, but sane, parties...

:sarcasm:

[frazzled]

3. From his mouth to God's ears.

It will mean it will be even harder to pass legislation in the House, but harder is better than impossible. And better than having the Republicans able to set the agenda.