McConnell: Obama has "disappointed me after two months" but "it's not too late" for him to change

[SuperTrouper]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090331/pl_mcclatchy/3201921_1

Excerpt:

When he appeared before the National Press Club in January, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell joked that his desire to work in a bipartisan manner with President Barack Obama might seem to some like an insurance agent hoping for an earthquake.

It didn't take long for the tremors to start.

"We have plenty of conversations. I'm going to say I'm disappointed after two months," McConnell told CNN's John King on Sunday. "The president has not governed in the middle, as I had hoped he would, but it's not too late. He's only been in office a couple months. Still before him are the opportunities to deal with us on a bipartisan basis."


In the meantime, the Democratic National Committee dubbed McConnell the leader of the "party of no" and accused him of pushing an obstructionist agenda in an effort to score political points.

Political experts say that McConnell's change in tone tracks with the low hum of discontent among some of the electorate over Obama's approach to the economic crisis. Though the president still has a roughly 60 percent approval rating, his popularity has slipped a few notches in the past month, according to a summary of national polling data compiled by the Web site RealClearPolitics.

[Botany]

1. Hey McChinless shut up and sit down

Obama has tried to reach out and you all but spit in his face.

[HopeOverFear]

9. LMAO @ "McChinless"...n/m

[Sultana]

17. LOL, new moniker

Loves it :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:yourock:

[MadBadger]

2. Does McConnell have a DU Account?

[Median Democrat]

8. ROFL!

:rofl:

[Hippo_Tron]

10. ROFLMAO

:rofl: :rofl:

Well done MadBadger

[Hansel]

13. Good one.

:applause:

[Brazenly Liberal]

3. That botox overdose has frozen his brain

which is, actually, an improvement. Not good enough, though.

[Teaser]

4. If he's disappointing McConnell

he's doing something right.

[Starry Messenger]

5. The republicans never planned on playing ball with us.

They have an entirely different frame of reference and it doesn't include being helpers unless they are helping some rich person make more money. Anyone who thought they were going to flock to our standard was sniffing glue.

[Rosco T.]

6. Message to NoLips...

FUCK YOU. Strong letter to follow.

[karynnj]

7. As to "bipartisan basis", McConnel was the leader of the Roadblock Republicans

[Turbineguy]

11. As one of my classmates used to so eloquently put it:

"EAT SHIT AND DIE!"

[HughBeaumont]

12. I think I speak for a relative quirky few when I say . . .

GET TEABAGGED YOU TURTLE LOOKING SHITFACE!!! NO ONE CARES WHAT EITHER YOU OR BONER HAVE TO SAY!!


Look kids there's Big Ben, Parliament AH HAHAHA HAHA HAAAAA!!

[LynnTheDem]

14. Perhaps mcconnell the arrogant needs to change...coz fact is, OBAMA

is the PRESIDENT of the United States of America.

[Odin2005]

15. Sounds like some DUers. n/t.

[grillo7]

16. "There's still time for him to come...to the dark side!" n/t

[harun]

18. LOL, I am scared to even try an imagine what McConnell's "middle" is.

Fascist asshole.

[Vinca]

19. You can't be bipartisan when one side always says "no." nt