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

[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.