Obama tells Dems to pep up

The Hill ^ | 06/27/14 06:00 AM EDT | Alexander Bolton

[BradtotheBone]

President Obama gave a pep talk to Senate Democrats over drinks at the White House this week, telling them a rising economy and ObamaCare’s healthy numbers should give them optimism about keeping their majority in November.

Democrats are nervous about losing control of the Senate because of Obama’s low approval ratings and Republican success in recruiting candidates and beating back the Tea Party.

Obama sought to cheer them up at Wednesday night’s meeting, several sources said. Unlike the last time the president hosted a reception for Democratic senators, he served them drinks and food as soon as they arrived instead of making his guests first sit through a formal question-and-answer session.

One Democratic senator said someone "must have said something" to Obama about the arrangement last year because this time the drinks and "nibbles" were available from the start.

Also, Obama did away with the rows of chairs and mingled with the lawmakers. He spoke on a microphone while they gathered around him in the East Room.

“This time as soon as we walked in we had drinks, we had food, we had all that first and it was good. And then Obama came in and rather than having us sit we just stood around," said the source. "It was a much better format than that formal thing before. You get the drinks first, you know?"

“It was very nice, there were a couple of hors d’oeuvres and everybody was able to get a drink whether it was wine or Coke or whatever,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). “It was a good opportunity to listen. I actually think the important thing we need to do much more is more personal interactions rather than speeches.”

[blueunicorn6]

This is the best summer I’ve had since I was a kid! The Democrats are stumbling around like a bunch of drunks trying to play hopscotch.

One of the newspapers in the state ran an editorial that was titled something like

We Were Really Wrong About Obama

I never thought I’d see the day a Democrat newspaper apologized for supporting a Democrat.