Clyburn hopes Johnson will attempt to find 'common ground'

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Source: Politico

01/05/2025 03:38 PM EST


Senior Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn on Sunday encouraged newly reelected House Speaker Mike Johnson to work with Democrats on agenda items in the new term.

Johnson kept his gavel on the first ballot Friday, quelling dissent in his caucus with the help of President-elect Donald Trump and seeing just one defection from the GOP ranks. Two Republicans, Reps. Keith Self (Texas) and Ralph Norman (S.C.), initially voted against Johnson before flipping their ballots after phone calls with Trump and commitments that the conference would work more collaboratively.

“I would think that the speaker ought to put into practice as he presides over the full Congress the same thing he did in order to get elected on the first ballot,” Clyburn told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday on “Inside with Jen Psaki.” “He kept the vote open for a little while until he could sit down and negotiate within his conference to get the votes he needed.”

Clyburn (S.C.) preached that same patience with Democrats. “Give us time to sit down for him, to sit down with the leadership of the — on the Democratic side, with Hakeem Jeffries, and find common ground,” Clyburn said, referring to the House Democratic leader.

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[displacedvermoter]

1. Politico, Clyburn, common ground...

Jeezus!

[SamKnause]

2. I have zero common ground with fascists.

I have zero common ground with theocrats.

I have zero common ground with people who think women are lessor than men.

I have zero common ground with a party that protects the wealthy and harms the poor.

[AverageOldGuy]

3. Clyburn is too damn old

We moved to rural VA 17 years ago, bought 5 acres that backs up to 500 acres of woodlands, built a house.

The second summer we were in our new home, early one morning I stepped out into the backyard where I observed a rabid fox staggering around on the back of my lot. I went back inside, got my .243 caliber rifle, and killed the fox with one shot at 125 yards. I then poured 5 gallons of diesel fuel on and around the diseased carcass and burned it.

This is exactly how we should "cooperate" with Republicans -- shoot the sonsofbitches and burn their carcasses. -- if Clyburn thinks these people can be cooperated with, he has lost his mind.

I was born in 1944, Clyburn is four years OLDER than I -- he's 84. Time for him to go back home to SC. In fact, it's past time.

[Ray Bruns]

4. Might as well try to get blood from a stone.

[WestMichRad]

5. Yeah, whatever

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[bdamomma]

6. All due respect to

Representative Clyburn, it won't happen.

[Rebl2]

7. That's

Laughable. Johnson and republicans hold all the power now and have no plans to cooperate or negotiate with democrats.

[moose65]

8. Good grief

All of these old school Democrats still spout this nonsense.

I don't get it. Clyburn is from a gerrymandered district so he is pretty much guaranteed re-election as long as he wants the seat. He doesn't have to pander to the "both sides" crowd.

Dems seem to have a serious octogenarian and septuagenarian problem!

[Boomerproud]

12. 84 years old. Either fight for what is right, or step away.

[republianmushroom]

9. Johnson is a trump (convicted felon) puppet.

The same as the convicted felon is Putin/Musk puppet.

[Grins]

10. Pardon me. But take that "common ground" shit and stick it.

Same bullshit platitudes we have heard for decades. This isn’t the 1980’s. (Even then….)

Republicans have PROVEN OVER AND OVER they don’t give a squat about working for a common good. That should been obvious to Obama after the ACA, and Biden since 06 January 2021.

The day before Obama was inaugurated, House and Senate Republicans gathered and schemed how they were going TO BLOCK ALL Obana’s legislative moves to (a) get back in the mid-terms, and later (b) the White House.

Stop this!

[LPBBEAR]

11. I'm so tired of these

reach across the aisles my friends on the other side dreamers.

I dedicate this song to these asleep at the wheel people.

[malthaussen]

13. And we complain that *Republicans* are stupid? n/t