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Linda – you are disappointed that Obama has 'not fixed the economy from the bottom up as promised'...

Did he 'promise' to fix it in just a few weeks?

If Cantor and Boehner are disappointed, things have to be going well. I'm not sure what they expect with bipartisanship. Obviously when the two parties are in favor of polar opposite directions a choice of general direction has to be made and given the results of the election, they are going to be generally Democratic directions. The bipartisanship comes in with tweaking the bill to include GOP ideas that fit that direction or to address their legitimate concerns. In this case, the deficit for example. The AMT, for example, did not belong in this bill but was included at their request. I understand they are disappointed or truly concerned about the direction and should stand by their principals if that's the motivation, but the carping about bipartisanship is pure politics. They had the opportunity and decided it was a bridge too far.

"The RNC specifically faults the new president for failing to garner a significant amount of GOP votes for his massive stimulus plan..."

This is too funny! The RNC refuse to compromise despite concessions made to them, then blame Obama for their own refusal to support the stimulus plan. We are through the looking glass here.

Wow, the republicans that destroyed America are giving advice? Republicans.....party first......country last! They are praying Obama fails!

I'm not surprised the RNC finds Obama's first month disappointing. Since we're sharing opinions, RNC, I found the last 8 years horrifying.

Criticizing him for not being able to get Rep. votes for the stimulus? All I heard coming from that side was tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts – which they got! And no suggestions that I'm aware of for anything else. I'm all for making the stimulus the best and most efficient it can be, but bipartisanship has to go BOTH ways. The idea is to help ALL states, ALL citizens, so a bit of compromise is going to be necessary (a lesson the Dems often have a hard time learning too).

Obama has already taken steps to undo a few big Bush problems like Guantanamo, and seems to be doing as much as possible to help the economy. I don't necessarily agree with every single thing his administration has done, and some of the Cabinet appointees haven't been all that great, but for the most part, I think he's doing a good job in an extremely difficult situation.

Despite the election results, the RNC still seems hopelessly out of step with the American public.

The RNC. Ah yes, Obama has been in office for only 30 days and the Republicans are quick to criticize. They go on to say he has failed miserably in his efforts for bipartisanship. I'm pretty sure it takes two to tango. I can't seem to remember the Republicans reaching out, at any measure, to alleviate the miserable mess their party has left Obama to sort through. They better be careful with the rocks their throwing, we're all living in the same glass house.

Republicans? Democrats? What's the difference? They both suck.. It's a shame that America has been brainwashed by drinking the Obama Kool-Aid and think he can do no wrong. His policies suck just as much as the previous administration. He will be a mediocre president at best and god forbid we criticize him, that would be racist no wouldn't it?

Republicans are "disappointed"...surprise, surprise. I don't know why anyone cares what this party thinks. They and King George are responsible for getting us in this terrible, seemingly unfixable mess. Obama and the Democrats are trying to turn things around. I don't know how anyone could even question the intentions. Something massive has to be done and continued tax breaks for the rich and large coporations hasn't worked. Trickle down is a myth and the people shouldn't be fooled by it. I'm glad to see most of the other posts here agree. Go Obama!!!

RNC are the most delusional group of idiots in the world.

Carl O'Bonner February 20th, 2009 10:32 am ET

How dare the RNC make and negative comments about a President that is so people orientated.

Thanks for making my point, Carl! If you don't agree w/ Obama, you shouldn't dare make a comment. And liberals should not comment if they can't spell correctly, or properly structure a simple sentence!

"Consider the source from whence it came and charge it up to ignorance" I think that's how it goes. I don't know who coined it.

After watching a documentary called "Right America: Feeling Wronged
some voices from the campaign trail" all I can say is that too many Republicans are just plain cold, unhappy, and hateful people. Maybe they would like some cheese with their whine.

Obama is one of a kind. We ran and won the election based on change. He specifically stated he would listen and run the gov't from both sides, Republican and Democrat. However, we saw how wasteful his spending plan was in the stimulus. I'm glad some of it was taken out but there are still A LOT of wasteful spending in the bill. It seems as though we haven't learned very much though. Before the Republicans ran the gov't and now it's the Democrats. The only way to have a successful gov't is to let the gov't run the way it was supposed to; with checks and balance.

It is fine to just continue with politics as usual and bash "the other" party as many people leaving comments on here are doing. However, let's be very clear,
the GOP did not just spend 750million dollars running a campaign talking about the failed polices of the GOP and the last 8 years.
The GOP did not just spend 750million dollars running a campaign talking about change.
The GOP did not just spend 750million dollars running a campaign talking about a new era of responsibility
The GOP did not just spend 750million dollars running a campaign talking about how we are not red states or blue states, but we are the United States.
The GOP did not just spend 750million dollars running a campaign talking about unprecedented transparency

So, if the Republican's are so bad, and a lost cause then why would the President say these things during his campaign? why wouldn't the President just say what he really thought...which is very clear...

"The GOP got us into this mess, their ideas are old and tired and do not work, therefore, I will not be listening to any of their ideas. However if they want to listen to my ideas then they will have opportunity to do so, as I will meet with them, I will have them over for Super Bowl parties and for drinks and hopefully they will see things MY way. However, let me be very clear, I will not be listening to even ONE of their ideas."

See that would have been transparent and honest...because that is exactly what happened. Interesting, how anybody could really be shocked that he got so little GOP support really...I am shocked he actually got 3 of the "evil" senators to vote with him.

Why this this the lead story? Of course the RNC are disappointed. They are the worse, sore losers of all times. This is not going to turn around overnight. The Republicans had eight years to do something and they couldn't. Don't you all realize that this negative press is a huge contributing factor to where we are today? The last I looked 90% of the American public is still working. In so many cases, the housing industry was serverly damaged by greedy bankers and people who couldn't even figure out what they could afford. What about the taxing paying, working public who are watching the value of their home diminish and their retirement disappear?

The RNC needs to stop talking period and support the recovery. Obama is doing all he can in a difficult situation and we need to get behind our President, our newly elected popular President and make this recover start happening or things are going to get worse.

The RNC is in no position to point the finger at Obama nor his administration when in fact they were George Bush's rubber stamp the entire time he held office for eight years.

The President asked the GOP to write a stimulus of their own and obviously they were too stupid to even do this. They also had some input in how this stimulus package was written and are only lashing out because this bill favors the middle class and not the wealthy.

Hey Helloooo00000
Thats your problem, You watch to much CNN and CSPAN.

If the Republicans are opposed to the efforts of Pres Obama, I'm ALL FOR HIM! They drove us into the ground over 8 years with Dumya signing bill after bill that they wrote...ENOUGH! They now need to get on board and try to turn this country around or shut the hell up! Who votes to reelect these idiots? This mess is YOUR fault too!

Obama bought and paid for the white house. what that menas is that EVERYTHING from Jan 20th onward is HIS problem, not George Bushes. all of you who continue to blame bush are only making excuses for obamas failures. when you buy a house yoiu do so with the problems that it has (seen or unseen). It is not the previous owners problem/fault if you find yourself having to make repairs. stop making excuses for obama, stop blaming other people and start demanding that he take responsibility for the mess that he is having a hard time cleaning up.typical dems never wanting to take responsibilty for problems because to do so would mean that you have to fix em and you dont know how. amen.

Interesting to read through the comments. The truth is, the country is not 'bipartisan' so it's unrealistic to expect the government to be so.

Personally I believe the widening income gap not to mention the widening sense of personal security is driving a wedge into American society. The politics in Washington are simply a reflection of who we are as a society. It's not a pretty picture. We are, truly, a nation divided.

The Republicans have decided that "Party Über Alles" – Party Above All, is the correct way to go. The party's will is more important than the current and future welfare of the country in general. Since they got us into this mess, they need to shut the hell up and cooperate to get us out of this mess. What nerve!!!

Republicans think the past month has been "disappointing", but the last 8 years have been just grand??? Hmmmmmm. Don't think I'd be seeking their advice on anything in the near future.

I agree with "Bart Simpson's" earlier comment - Republicans have overdone their criticisms of Obama, so that their opinions no longer have any merit!! They are not even trying any longer to FAKE thoughtful opinion and common sense.

Further, I'd like to see those Republican governors who say they just might not accept the money offered to them in the stimulus bill actually NOT take it, and see how their constituents react to that.

It's the same old, same old, and it was initiated by Karl Rove - if you repeat something often enough, people will believe it. So if Repubs keep hammering at and criticizing Obama, they believe people will buy into their delusion. But guess what? EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! People have wised up.

One single month into his presidency, Barack Obama already trumps "W" and instills pride and hope in those of both parties who look at the man, not at a particular affiliation.

Travis – forget the racial sarcasm this time! Today's RNC has nothing sensible to offer but they must defend their stature so they resort to criticism. Their forté is playing the role of copycat, i.e., token Black leader to avenge the Democratic presidential choice; selection of Palin to walk in Hillary's shoes. While they may be astounded at the fact that a person of color is actually smarter than the collective sorry lot they are, their stance reeks of jealousy and inability to heal the wounds of election defeat.

The RNC is disappointed? Bawhahahahahaha

The real story here:

Anniversary means annual, or yearly. Not monthly, or periodically. A one-month anniversary is like saying this year has been the longest decade.

This just in:

Apparently, it's not butter. Americans unsure of what to believe for years now have an answer.

Also, today marks the one-month "anniversary" of the Obama Victim being victimized. We're all pulling for you!

@ Linda

you say "This administration scares me" ... i have to ask if this scares you then that boogie man that was in ur closet for the last 8yrs should have made you run out the house and hide under some 1 else bed... now u scared...lol ... get back up in ur high chair and eat ur apple sauce baby and leave that bib on

It appears to me that President Obama has done more good for this country in one month than George Bush did in 8 years.

What are they missing? Maybe there plan didn't work, and they are doing whatever possible to make President Obama look bad, and think we the people will think they look good? Give the American people more credit.

I have a problem with people telling me to give my money to the people out of work. I teach and I am always telling my students you can always get a job, but it might not be what you want. I have 4 kids and can not give everyone my money. Welcome to the world of Obama- No work- You still get your bills paid with my money.

Rick
and yet he has sown that he is a better leader then Bush, which you voted for twice. Give me a break!!!!!!!

Hey he just finished a trip to Canada where, despite the fact that he has little to no impact on our day to day lives, he is more popular than our own Prime Minister. If the GOP wants him out it would be interesting to see what they have in mind instead.

He can come to Canada and run for PM! We'll welcome him with open arms.

Did this really deservere a article? Republicans think President Obama is doing a bad job. No surprise there. What I still don't hear is a detailed, transparent, bipartisan plan from them of what they would do to resolve the economic crisis. Because suddenly details, transparency and bipartisanship is SO important to them. Why? Because they don't have one. They created the mess and then cry because someone is trying to clean it up. Funny....they aren't unemployed, their families are not having to sacrifice just to make ends meet. Which means...they don't care. The economic crisis isn't affecting them. In the end, the Republican party criticized their own President....for political purposes and they are doing the same thing with President Obama. Although they were quite content to vote FOR the bills that helped Boo Boo the FOOL (President Bush) create this mess. Just shows me that....as usual...Republicans care more about the politics of it all...instead of America. Democratics we must stand behind our President and support him completely through this process. What will be an extremely difficult process. President Obama is up for the challenge. Are we?

Wouldn't it be great if Republicans could put as much effort into helping this country as they put into complaining about everything?

The Repubs are mad at Pres Obama? Go figure! Thats probably a good thing considering where they took the nation over the past 8 years

Yea the republ party is just jealous and they are very amazed that President Obama is a strong president.... they thought they can easily bloc him with things he wanna do then claim he is not qualified.. oh well they've learnt they lesson now.. they very well know that this guy is very smart and is not gonna say yes no more to they tired and old ideas unless they come up with new ones...
Gooodluck Mr President... Your first thirty days went fantastic.. you have showed that you are there to work for us... the american ppl..
Than you Mr president!

LOL!!! The republicans are pathetic! LOL!!!

1.George Bush's stimulus bill was bigger & he is a republican.

2. The reason bi-partisanship isn't working is because the republicans are not willing to be bi-partisan, even though Obama has tried countless times just in his first month to be bi-partisan.

3. The whole entire republican party is supported, paid for, & run by lobbyists, cooporations, & special interest groups so what is your point Grand Old Farts?

The republicans make the simple mistake of thinking that we are all as dumb as they look.

I think Republicans forget what "bi-partisan" means. To them it means giving them exactly what they want. in realtiy it means compromise, which is exactly what happened.

Obama is disappointing but G.W. Bush was the bees knees? The RNC is so out of touch with reality it's unreal.

Republicans: Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way! Now, you've already proven that you're incompetent at leading; your current behavior shows that you're equally unequipped to follow; so please quit trying every dirty trick in the book to stall the progress the rest of us are making at trying to fix the avalanche of problems, disasters, failed policies, economic destruction, government growth and national embarrassment you caused.

Obama bought and paid for the white house. what that menas is that EVERYTHING from Jan 20th onward is HIS problem, not George Bushes. all of you who continue to blame bush are only making excuses for obamas failures. when you buy a house yoiu do so with the problems that it has (seen or unseen). It is not the previous owners problem/fault if you find yourself having to make repairs. stop making excuses for obama, stop blaming other people and start demanding that he take responsibility for the mess that he is having a hard time cleaning up.typical dems never wanting to take responsibilty for problems because to do so would mean that you have to fix em and you dont know how.

RNC please leave and take your loser trickle down economics with you!

Would you like to know what dissapointing really is? Try being a Democrate during last 8 years of Republican leadership (?)
Try holding your breath for 8 years and praying that the United States will survive one disaster after another.
Try being a Democrat now when our President is asking us to work together and be respectful of our fellow Republicans, when what some of us would like to do is scream and shout – What the H were you thinking for 8 years. It takes some kind of leadership to negatively impact the entire world. And we Democrates are still being called names like – socialist, commies – tax and spend liberals –
Are we dissapointed also? You bet we are, but not in our Party or our President -

Who cares how the Repubs feel? They have no solutions so they create problems as they usually do. I did not hear any grumbles from this party when George Bush was running this greta country in the ground. NONE. Stop all of your whining and be proactive and help steer this country back to it's prominence.

i've lost count of the number of months/years the Repulicans have been a disappointment.

Would you like to know what dissapointing really is? Try being a Democrate during last 8 years of Republican leadership (?)
Try holding your breath for 8 years and praying that the United States will survive one disaster after another.
Try being a Democrat now when our President is asking us to work together and be respectful of our fellow Republicans, when what some of us would like to do is scream and shout – What the H were you thinking for 8 years. It takes some kind of leadership to negatively impact the entire world. And we Democrates are still being called names like – socialist, commies – tax and spend liberals –
Are we dissapointed also? You bet we are, but not in our Party or our President -

GOP – shut up and DO something positive for this country for once! Or, as your revered Dick Cheney once said, "go..."

RNC, Sit down and shut up. You need to sit this one out for the good of our country.

America has turned into a big old Butt and Obama and his Adminastration of thugs are the boils! Lance them now!!!!!

To Kevin in Ohio..."the republicans have no power whatsoever..."
You should be very afraid when one political party has all the power. No matter which party it is.

Good grief, Repubs!

What do you expect?

It took 8 years for idiot Dubya and Co. and you crazies to get us in this mess. It's not going to be cleaned up instantaneously!

Chill.

I think it is fair for the Republicans to voice their opinion. God knows that all we heard for the last 8 yrs was the griping opinion of Democrats. If in the next 4 to 8 years the Dems retain control and the republicans win, we will no doubt hear the griping of Democrats again. this is so cyclical!

The question of why, or who, don't really matter anymore. We don't care why you try to shape public opinion, or who within CNN thinks this kind of garbage is news worthy. But we do care about HOW LONG it will take for people to see that we are trying to solve some tough issue's together and thats a little more news worthy than The Rnc thinks the Dnc's guy is bad. And Travis criticizing the President is a responsible act when done responsibly but a racist act when done on the basis of race. If Being a white man didn't make George Bush a bad President. He just wasn't very focused on America's Issues.

RNC....set it to a hip hop song

Here's some definitions from the GOP playbook, so we can understand the quotes above:

"partisan" – the other side did not come to us on bended knee begging for guidance and seeking to appease us

"bipartisan" – our ideas were the only ones put into motion and our agenda controlled the decisions made

"questionable ethics" – someone did something bad that we've been doing for years, so we're going to scream about it real loud to draw attention away from our own behavior

"interest groups" – everyone but corporate America and the very rich

"significant amount of GOP votes" – see "bipartisan" above

"spending" – anything that involves using gov't funds to further the Democratic agenda

"tax cuts" – universal panacea

Well... the election season's big losers, the ones who were soundly rejected by voters across the board... of course they're going to whine about not getting their way.

RIGHT OR WRONG, everyone has a right to their opinion.

Please try to think before you speak.

Yeah, it's no surprise that the Republicans disapprove. What gets me is all of the people claiming that they are just sore losers, pouting children, and stubborn old white men who don't care about the people rather than a group of people whose vision for America doesn't mesh with that of Obama's. These are the same people who weren't interested in "Moving on" when Al Gore lost in 2000. And for those of you ready to respond with "Al Gore didn't lose the election!" please refer to all of the comments below regarding sore losers and pouting children.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?

Has the ENTIRE RNC been asleep or living in a cave for the last 8 years?!?

Look in the mirror...

"... has been marked by wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics," the RNC said in a document circulated to reporters.

EVERY LETTER of that paragraph is a nutshell description of the Bush-Cheney regime that has put our country where it is today! The republicans took a ticking time bomb and passed it off to Obama. And, BTW, they would have passed that same time bomb off to McCain/Palin, had they won, so how's that for bipartisanship?

RNC = Two-faced, back-stabbing, pathetic whining maggots.

It won't take long for some Dems and Independents to join the Repubs. This President is worse than Carter. He's more like Chavez.

Like the party of the worst President in history has any credibility left. Let's all remember that it takes time to clean up disasters.

The real story here:

Anniversary means annual, or yearly. Not monthly, or periodically. A one-month anniversary is like saying this year has been the longest decade.

This just in:

Apparently, it's not butter. Americans unsure of what to believe for years now have an answer.

From the people that brought you 8 years of George Bush!

well perhaps the RNC should be putting out a report on how well(sarcasm) they have managed to put their "country first" agenda in front of the American people..by obstructionist and blind party gimmicks and filibuster threats..they have truly exposed themselves to even the dumbest of the collective voting pool..they could only slap the hand that Obama reached out to them

in spite of this.. the Obama administration moves forward with an agenda of "DO SOMETHING" The GOP broke this country and lined their cronies pockets with our investments..retirement accounts..family budgets..and every last nickle they could steal from us..

do we even wonder anymore why all they can do is express "disappointment" in the man that kick their collective butts in the last election..when rush limpburger is running their party and their propped up figure head thinks hip hop is the answer to his party's self inflicted morass..

so be disappointed rnc..then shut up and move out of the way...

WHO CARES WHAT REPUBLICANS SAY OR THINK,A BUNCH OF FAILURES WHO SHOULD JUST KEEP QUIET

"Disappointing" first month, eh? Here is my observation of the previous 8 years...incompetently mismanaged, catastrophic, borderline illegal...and also disappointing.

The criticism by clueless and ever increasingly irrelevant Republicans should not discourge Democrats from doing whatever is necessary to fix the economy and bring an end to the disasterous war in Iraq. Hasn't mid-term losses in 2006 as well as the Republican bloodbath in 2008 taught them anything? To say that President Obama should be faulted for his failures to secure bipartisanship in the developmwent of the stimulus package is especially ludicrous. It is as though Republicans were invited to a party, did not show up, and then whined because they were not at the party.
Republican Colin Powell was right. As long as Republicans and conservatives in general allow crypto-fascists like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh define the party, they are going to be on the outside looking in for years. The appeal to base instincts that has come to characterize the Republican dialogue will only alienate greater numbers of the American people.
What is wrong with these people?

Again, the GOP can cast the first stone. I'm amazed that the GOP can fix their mouths to criticize anyone. The Republican party was in charge of Congress for more than a decade and the results of their leadership is bank failures, massive job losses, wars, suicide rate hikes, depleted 401Ks, increased homelessness, etc. Really GOP. Can you work with the new administration and not try to divide the country again? We, the American public, can't take the results of your leadership it has driven us to the edge and many have jumped over.

Rick, us ignorant voters thought the same thing when GWB got re-elected. Go figure!!!

The RNC needs to take a critical look at its own party, and make a determined effort to place nation above party for a change.

The failure of gaining more Republican votes in Congress for the stimulus plan was not a fault of Obama's lack of bipartisan effort but the Republican parisan stonewall that has been rerected to side track and delay any and all attempts by the new administration to straight out the mess left by the past Republican adminstration, And yes, I can say this loud and clear having been a Republican since Nixon. I will also state that what we have wandering the nations Capital today calling themselves Republicans, bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of the past and definetly no resemblance to the Party of Lincoln.

If our politicians are not in Washington to move forward and resolve the nations problems in a "Bipartisan" fashion, they need to go home and be replaced by those that will. Bipartisan means working together and getting the job done, not pouting like little children and saying do it my way or I am not going to support anything.

What can one expect from a bunch of GOP radicals who have idee fixe about an admininstration by a Dem? Quite predictably, Boehners, Cantors, Pences, and the like will, forsooth, intone this monotony of disappointment , or maybe sing a boring encomia for themselves.

Reading the headline of the article I believed it was with some sort of sense. So you're saying that the Republicants are disappointed with Obama? WHO CARES!!!? What the Rup thinks doesn't mean a thing! They complain about everything under the sun just to seek attention. They are old and tired just like Palin, Steel and McCain...who refuse to go away.
They had all the time in the world to read the stimilus bill but chose to complain Not to mention that Obama did try to reach out to them and they refuse. So enough of reaching out..lets move on without them!!!

Has anyone else noticed the overwhelming news coverage from the Republican point of view?

Please. Was anyone expecting the conclusion to be otherwise? The RNC really should sit tight and keep quiet after the last 8 years and what's happened to this country. Funny, I don't recall the RNC ever concluding that Bush was ever disappointing.

Obama has been in office for one month. Can we even reach any conclusions yet–other than observe that he seems to be working a whole lot harder than the last guy who occupied the office?

CNN (Communist News Network) kool aid drinkers, if you think this Spendulous Pork aced bill was necessary or if you believe it will help this country, I hope to be there to tell you in 2012 "I told you so" because it failed before it was signed into law. It will get worse now. Watch and see. I hope it works, but realistically and logically it is impossible and I hope I am wrong, but chances are, I'm right. You will see and pay for it.

Wow. They refuse to compromise when a hand is extended and its Obama's fault?

Stay suburban urban hip-hop classy, Republican Party!

Do they think anyone really cares what they think?

The Republicans find Obama to be a disappointment? Go figure. And in other news, the sun rose in the east once again.

Color me unsurprised that the RNC would choose to say something negative instead of something positive about a Democratic president with staggeringly high public approval ratings. Obama inherited two wars and the worst economy since the 1930s from an inept Republican president, and he's already done more work in his first month than George Bush did in his first six.

He has been the best info commercial I have ever watched. I mean, he sold one of the best bill of lies, that any other info commercial has in the history of TV. What other commercial has sold in one signature over $700 billion of worthless spending?

Hey RNC, whose fault is it that we have failed bipartisanship? It is definitely not Obama's. There are many American who wish Obama would just put the Republicans in there place, but he too presidential to stoop to there level. Therefore, Republicans watch what the American electorates does in 2010! Congratulations will be in order as the Democrats get the 60+ majority in the Senate! Congratulations to the Republicans as well, continue to put your foot in places the stuggling public will only imagine!

This from the fools who got us into the mess(es) we are in today. Then the johnny-come-lately -idiots name one of maybe three minorities (most would say tokens) it can count as part of its memebership to lead its national party and he tires to be hip using terms from the '80s. Gotta love 'em, though-you always know what to expect.....

The entire world is sick and tired of the Republican party in this country. The people have spoken LOUDLY. Why don't they [Republicans] just shut up and go away?

To my fellow dems, the GOP is clueless, without any understanding of economics, unable to develop its own plan or offer alternative ideas and unwilling to act on anything except standing on the sidelines and throwing rocks and whinning. They are continuing to self destruct which is a good thing so they won't regain any level of credible power for a long, long time. This is a good thing so we can fix thier mess and get this country and the world back on the right track.

Look at the benchmark Obama is being judged from. There is no standard there. Its all coming from an empty promise of a new beginning that really has not been defined. His support is based on hope. His arguments are all rhetoric. There is no substance there just a stimulus that didn't even happen on the bipartisan stage as was promised. So his presidency is accelerating already on one empty promise with I am sure many to follow. It is all empty. I do not see a leader in Obama.

So, according to the RNC, Obama's first month is still better than Bush's active warmongering and efforts to spread hate and fear for the United States among other nations.

Under the circumstances, I am extremely relieved that the best they could come up with is 'disappointing.' This is actually a good thing. It could have been worse! A Democratic Government will always be a Disappointment to a GOP Opposition. There are two very different philosphies and ideologies. And without pointing any fingers, if anyone comes into power and has the power to disappoint you in the first 30 days, then at least, he must be doing something right.

Luckily for the American people, the GOP has hawks like Rush, Sean and then there is this guy, Jay Severin, who is going to simply whip everyone into a frenzy of not really caring what the Republicans say.

And to think that I was once Republican!

Now, I am disappointed – in myself as well!

Good grief! The man has been in office ONE MONTH.

Stupid Republicans. What did THEY have to offer? Sarah Palin?

The RNC is questioning Obama's ethics? ROFL

the question is are you better off now than you were 2 yrs ago when the democrats took over congress ?

One, the guy's been in office exactly one month. Two, who cares what the bozos who put us in our current mess have to say about him. They're his vicious opponents and they've made it clear they will do anything to prevent his agenda from happening. The people have spoken: The RNC needs to remember Obama was voted in decisively and the voters support him. Somebody's jealous.

All I have to say is: GOP = Gutless Obstructionist Pukes! They are nothing but sniveling little whiners that took us down the road we are on – this country is changing directions and they are too stupid to see it! Conservaties (GOP) are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservative (GOP) . . . John Stuart Mill

I have to question why this RNC report is considered news by the team at CNN?

Particularly after all the hubub re: the (unsurprising) revelation that Fox news takes ownership of and reports RNC talk points as "fair and balanced" news...

Face it...The RNC's opinon right now is about as important as George Bush's opinion...

President can not make you Repugs work with him or the Dem Party. You all ran this country into the ground and it seems okay while you all were destroying us.

I guess the President would be very good if he were doing exactly what you Repugs wants him to do and that is to destroy this USA and line your pockets with golden prizes.

Now, the RNC want to copycat what the citizens has been trying to tell you for years. Your party is out of touch.

CNN please post.

"Change We Can Believe In" is obviously translated into "Business As Usual". There is no one who can account for the billions of dollars being thrown at a problem. You can't spend yourself out of a recession. Perhaps ex-Gov Rod and soon-to-be ex-Senator Burris would be better. At least you knew where they stood.

The REAL disappointment for this first month is the GOP. In a time of severe national crisis, they have done nothing but bully, whine, obstruct, criticize, and do everything within their power to try to undercut the incoming president AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS. The GOP has hurt itself more in this first month of the new presidency than they even realize.

what a waste of a headline – sort of like "Weatherman predicts weather"

Wow, the G.O.P. is shooting for the title of most hated institution on Earth. I'm really starting to wonder if this party is going to survive.

Rick,

Take a long walk on a short pier.

Rush Limbaugh said it all when he said "I hope Obama fails".

The RNC is doing everything they can to add partisanship to the mix, when it is confidence in a plan (any plan) that is needed. They want the USA and Obama to fail so in 2010 they can say look how bad it is.

Bush and the GOP set the stage for this fiasco by putting the country so deeply into debt and deregulating the financial industry.

The GOP missed a chance to say hey, we messed up. We should have taken him up on his attempt to work with us. I hear by call for the disbanding of the GOP and the creation of a 3rd party. Can I have a 2nd?

Lecturing everyone on living within our means, then taking money from ones who are and giving it to those who did not, is not the way to get re-elected.

I don't care what the republicans say. President Obama has done more in 30 days than Bush has done in 8 years. People need to realize that the previous administration left a HUGE MESS for Obama to deal with. It is going to take time for us to see a turn around, but he is at least trying to do something. People need to stop being so critical and judgmental. I do not remember hearing this many negative comments about Bush, oh yeah I forgot, I guess that is the type of president that people want. Someone who cares more about what you wear in the Oval Office rather than working within that office to help the American people. People need to grow up and realize, whether you like it or not........ BARACK OBAMA is the President of the United States and if you don't like it, then you need to take up residence in another country!

President Obama has done all he possibly can to bring in the Republicans..........

The problem with the Republicans is that it's the "same old, same old". The American people wanted CHANGE..........they got it when THEY ELECTED Democrats to take charge.

All the Republicans can do now is AGREE TO DISAGREE. How about giving President Obama and this new Administration the chance to prove itself. They have done more in a month than the Bush Administration did in EIGHT YEARS!

And are we supposed to be surprised by this assessment? I think not. The RNC needs to keep in mind that bipartisanship is a two way street. It takes work from their side also. The House vote along party lines even after changes were made tells me that the RNC does not want to work with the Democrats.

P.S. I do agree that the stimulus package fell short on construction (Only 30B for highways and bridges) which would get more jobs created and the economy going and also contained too much pork. Not my assessment just look at the market.

who cares what the RNC thinks. Those jokers are the reason the economy is a mess and we are in a pointless war costing billions per month.

If the RNC is so all knowing, why haven't they offered any solutions besides tax cuts to the rich???????????? Bring something to the table besides complaints.

Atleast Barack is attacking the issues head-on instead of insisting the issues are not real as the RNC did for their entire time in power.

Since Obama's swearing in, CNN.com has consistently been putting these little blurb headlines on it's front page, saying how horrible Obama has been. Then you read the article and it's "so-and-so says..." And of course the so-and-so is always a Republican.

Where is the front-page headline about what the DNC thinks of Obama's performance.

The liberal media, my butt.

What a surprise!

The RNC is talking about wasteful spending in the first month of the Obama Administration, yet that description would better characterize GW for the for the past 8 years.

how ironic....

The RNC really needs to get their stuff together. Michael Steele is pathetic. Obama has done more in his first 30 days then any other president in my lifetime. Closing Gitmo, ending torture, more transparency in the executive branch then ever before, largest piece of legislation 787B to help keep and create new jobs, foreclosure plan to try and keep people in their homes.

The RNC can critize all they want, but they have set forth no other plan except more tax cuts. They have no original plan and the only item on their agenda is to see Obama fail, and with him the country. Sad, very sad.

are you kidding me....this is laughable coming from them

They've been trying to sabotage President Obama from the start. They act like the state of the economy took a nose dive AFTER Obama's election. It's disgusting that people are not even giving him a chance. One month in office trying to fix 8 years of disaster.

First, a grammar lesson for whoever writes this stuff: "amount of GOP votes" should be "number of GOP votes." (You measure an amount; you count a number.)

And as for the GOP claim of "failed bipartisanship," I agree, but they're the ones who failed. Obama reached out, but they were more interested in reestablishing their pathetic credibility than in putting country first.

CNN: Alomst each day I see at least one error in grammer and spelling in your articles. I don't mean the blogs, which in general display a shameful level of education. I am talking about your articles. This particular article has its blatant error right there in the opening sentence. Journalists should be our national models in correct English.

I do not see these kinds of errors on the AP and Reuters service. Perhaps they hire writers that made it through high school.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nice of the gop to point out where they failed...
bipartisanship...despite repeated efforts and then, compromises in the stimulus package to increase tax cuts that got us here in the first place, the party heads told the house repubs to vote no.
wasteful spending...from the party that gave us the largest deficit in history; can you say "Iraq"?
ethics...this may be the only point the repubs have half an argument. Pres Obama's nominees may not have been completely vetted, but they were qualified. I'd rather have Daschle than "way to go brownie"

One more thing, those who want to blame the GOP for not being Bipartisan –

Have you actually watched any of the the debates on the stimulus package from congress?

The GOP wanted a stimulus package too. They just wanted one that was going to stimulate the economy, NOT Government. What about the 10 Democrats who voted NO to the bill...What do you think about that? Obviously they thought something was wrong too!

Of course, you probably don't care because you get your welfare check every month, so this is good.

Probably not...

Yeah, Disappointing...for the RNC.

But not for America.

I am so impressed by President Obama! You Rock!

Would these critics be the same people who gave 'w' everything he wanted? Who allowed the debt to nearly double in the last 8 years? Who killed nearly 5,000 American servicemen and women by invading Iraq in order to satisfy "w" and Cheney's imperialistic ambitions?

Oh, it's the Republicans, so it is the same people who did everything they could during the last 8 years to enrich themselves and their friends, while destroying the economy and trading American lives for no bid contracts and a shot at Iraqi oil contracts.

If you are not a whacked out far right religous fundamentalist bent on creating a theocracy in America, or in the top 2% of wealthiest people, HOW can you still support this party?

The republican's input means nothing. Michael Steele is a sellout joke.

DEMOCRATS have a point.

GEORGE BUSH has been asleep at the wheel and allowed bad banking laws created in the last presidency to continue and not be corrected. Financially he was a terrible president and put and added 5 trillion to the national debt in 8 years.

REPUBLICANS have a point.

Much of the economic crisis is because of mortgages that liberals wanted to give to the people who could not afford them. You must also understand that Republicans have their opinions and have beliefs that they stand by. They are not going to fold because their president was a failure. There are conservatives that were not listened to by Bush.

FINALLY,
There are 2 arguments if not several in either case. I personally dont believe in spending but I have a problem with my Republicans. We lower taxes but we increase spending for eight years.

Democrats at least increase taxes to cover spending. I personally do not support either side. I would rather see no tax change and no spending change. Allow the market to correct itself. That is life.

Allow time to past. I dont believe Barack is correct, but I do believe it will take at least 1 year to 2 years before we can argue success.

Did anyone expect the GOP to say anything other than disappointing?
The people of our country know the truth and that's what matters...we know that President Obama has had a brilliant month in office, and that the GOP are out of touch with reality and going down fast.

Oh yes...disappointing indeed.
Unlike the last 8 years.

Just think how disappointed they're going to be in 2010.

What would you expect from the Republican Clown Car?

Really, do you think that they would praise our President for the actions he has had to take to deal with this financial disaster?

What is so disturbing is the media continues to print crap like this, all the while, more banks are being raided for their criminal behavior, your house value is going down, your job is being cut....

Could the media please report the news and stop reporting opinion?

Well....things are off to a horrible,horrible start.And then having clowns like Geitner and Holder around don't help things either.

IF John McCain had won the election you can bet your hind end that the dems would have said more than "disappointing". Nothing wrong at all with speaking the truth. The problem comes when you can not accept it.

Air headed RNC and party got us in this mess and have only air left for idea's and have only this bitch, bitch, bitch dialogue in the hopes that it will catch on. Trouble is it just might. The disconnect and back biting is astounding and frightening. It must be difficult for those who speak and think in sound bites to hear and understand mindful thoughtful dialogue coming from a politician. Rave on until you are out of breath RNC.

America's opinion of Republicans-they are worthless! Obama has been in office for a month and has had to work to fix 8 years of failure. Americans clearly see the failed blame game the republican employ but NO SOLUTIONS for what ails America. This party is nothing more than a fringe group.

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markets tell the story. Obama and his grand plans have failed

The RNC is dead. They did it to themselves with arrogance and ignorance. This bunch of people is just disgusting; they can offer no ideas except tax cuts. They would have destroyed the country had they been elected.

The GOP, who ignored the economy and called it "fundamentally sound", is calling President Obama's first month "disappointing".

I'm looking forward to the final humiliating defeat of the GOP in 2012.

And Rick says, "It is not surprising that Obama is a disappointment, he does not have the experience to be president. He never finished his FIRST term as a U.S. Senator. He does not have the FEDERAL political experience that is necessary to be the leader of this country. But the ignorant voter decided to put this trouble upon us." So, Bush, whose ambition is to own a baseball/football team, whatever, was experienced in these areas? I must have blinked and missed that information!

As a Republican, I would really like the RNC to shut up.

Lets get something straight: Most of the Republicans that voted for Bush had no idea that he was going to be a Lunaitc and destroy the country. We figured that since his father was such a smart guy, that maybe the apple didn't fall far from the tree. We were wrong. Most of you Dems are to blame for Jimmy Carter, so give us a break.

What the right wing needs to do is stop whining every time Obama has a press conference, start figuring out a way to work with (Nazi) Pelosi, and start grooming a young, sharp opponent to actually have a chance to beat Obama in 2012.

I gotta say, this is hilarious, LOL!!!!!!! What, what are they nowteachers? LOL!!! Let me get this straight...they are complaining their problems to the Prez? LOL!!!!! For the record, we got transcripts, I don't think they wants us to go back and pick on the GOP...is too easy, LOL!!!!

Give the guy a chance, my lord he just became president and forced to clean up a mess thats worst than anything my 4 dogs could do. Want to talk about disappointing, how about the last 8 years of hell we were forced to live

recovery.gov GO read for yourself what is really in this stimulus bill !!
no one is being fair if they "havent " read it..its easy to read TOO
recovery.gov

Wow, considering the pile of SHITE they heaped on for 8 years, I would say the first 30 days of digging through the pile and actually GETTING SOMETHING DONE is a HUUUGE step in the right direction!

President Obama, the only words you should use to quote your predecessor are "Stay the course." Keep on laying out your plan and don't let the crazies who think this mess can be fixed in 30 days or even 300 days sway you. The majority has proven we are behind you all the way!

Carl O'Bonnor:

Thank you for enlightening my day. One sure doesn't have to look far to see how unintelligent the Democratic party is...reading your post does the job well.

Can someone please explain to me why the vast majority of the uneducated and unintelligent in this country vote Democratic? Is it nothing more than a party full of idiots?

Maybe the RNC's "not surpris(ing)" verdict is because very little that Obama has done has been impressive. If you don't work for a living, want people to bail you out of your bad judgement, want working people to pay for the financial damage you did to yourself, Obama's the guy for you. For the rest of us, he's a fool who is obsessed with hiring Clinton retreads and tax cheats. You can make fun of Sarah Palin all you want, she's a cut above this wannabe. A lot of people did not vote for this guy and he still wants to pretend he has a mandate.

What planet does the RNC live on? If they're disappointed in Obama after only 4 weeks (in which he's been doing a very GOOD job in my opinion), imagine how a lot of folks feel about the GOP after they managed to destroy this country over a span of 8 years! What?...do they think Americans are stupid? The sins of the Republican party are unforgivable. They rightfully lost in November and frankly, I'm tired of their b***** and moaning! I wish they would just shut up and go into hiding for a long, long, time! And by the way, I'm a Republican.

I thought they would say Obama is wack, since they are going through their hip hop transformation.

The GOP doesn't want to have talks with Obama so they can say he's not bipartisan. These people should just go to Iraq since they are so in love with that place.

More continuation of the same ... if you just keep repeating the same old lie, maybe someone will believe it. It didn't work for Bush, McCain, Palin, and it won't work for the REST of the RNC.

In 1 month he has done more good than Bush did his entire term in office. The only think that saddens me is that he TRIED to work with them and put things in the Stim to try to bring them on board, just for them to vote against it, with THEIR perks in it. As long as they were going to vote against, it would have been nice to take THEIR special additions out!

Of course the RNC is gonna find Obama dissapointing. Thats like asking the CEO of McDonalds if he likes the Whopper.

Why is this news? What's next? A story about Fox News' opinion on the performance of MSNBC??? Talk about bias....

The man has been there for 1 month and the GOP is already throwing garbage his way? Please... Keep it up and 2010 will be another butchering for your party.

Who cares what the RNC thinks, give me a break.

To all you clowns that keep bringing up the Republicans trying to block the stimulus, guess what, it didn't work. And THAT is the reason Obama is disappointing. He jammed this stimulus down everyone's throats, created a witch hunt for any person who dare not support it, and got it passed.

But let's take a look at the markets. Every "plan" the administration comes up with (TARP money, stimulus, foreclosures) has only pushed the markets further down. We are no better off with Obama in office. All he's done is have bipartisan drinking parties, superbowl festivities, and flown around the country on his new big plane to sign failing bills for all the world to see.

I'm sure disappointed.

Our economic woes are due to the Republican administration? The first 6 years were pretty decent, economically speaking. Could you tell me who chaired the House and Senate financial committees, who told the Bush administration to back off on checking out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac activities? I am certainly no Busch fan (neither senior nor junior) but wish this hateful diatribe against Republicans would stop. THERE IS PLENTY OF BLAME TO GO AROUND!

Is this news? Was there any chance the GOP would say anything else? Of course not. All they're doing is looking to the mid-term elections and to 2012.

I get really pissed when I hear of "failed bipartisanship" from the congressional republicans. Obama didn't have to appoint GOP members to high positions in his cabinet. He didn't have to reach out to them and meet with them during the stimulus debate. And he included way more tax cuts in the stimulus that most democrats would have wanted. It sounds to me like the GOP is being stubborn dickheads, then complaining that Obama is unable to comprise with stubborn dickheads.

After 8 years of the "my way or teh highway" mentality, the republicans need to learn how to be bipartisan. They also must remember that teh majority of teh country does NOT support them, despite all their rhetoric to te contrary.

Instead of folding their arms across their chests and putting every program down as a potential failrure, they need to come up with ways to make things work. Unfortuneately, their only solutions seem to be tax-cuts, and Obama just signed off on one of teh largets tax cuts in history.

Just remember that 1/2 of this US population are not in favor of Obama's spending package, that should give you a clue. Obama's reputation seem to be getting lower every week. Anyone in there right mind that finds it ok to sign a spending bill without others reviewing it have got to be out of there right mind. He is up to no good. You left wingers go ahead and dream away while the rest of use live in reality

If the Repugs were saying that Obama was doing a great job, I would be very afraid!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

What can we say about the previous last 8 years, DISASTRIOUS!

Like it or not, they are right. Stimulus plan done by Pelosi, he did not read it or write it. Forclouser plan a joke, still not out of Iraq and pouring in funds, Afganistan 140,00 Russian troops could not solve, we put in more, send funds there to rebuild their country to a corupt governemnt. Nothing on lthe Mexican boarder, where is the National Guard? They are kidnapping Americans on the boarder States, nothing being done. NAFTA killing American jobs, no action, WTO killoing American jobs, no action. Too many other things to mention. WAKE UP AMERICA. Lets give the auto industry billions more so they can fail

It is so sad that in this desperate time with these prevailing sufferable issues confronting the American people, all the RNC can do is stand back and criticize. They are an incredibly disruptive force in our current environment right now.
There is not one person that I have talked to who does not agree that now is the time to roll up our sleeves collectively. Criticizing the President at this time is divisive, disturbing and unforgivable. I recommend Republicans get it together and stop behaving like sore losers.

You couldn't please the Republicans if you gave them every thing they ever wanted. They are so ignorant and arrogant, they don't know a good thing when they see it.

What are all you guys talking about? Have you guys not seen our market since Obama has announced this stimulus and since Geithner (head of the IRS that didn't pay taxes himself) announced his treasury plan. This economy is headed for even worse shape with this out of control spending. We had a lot of debt because of 9/11 and an 8 year war. That took 8 years people!!!!! Obama is tripling our debt in 1 month. Wake up!!!!! And do yourselves a favor and go on the internet and look up the bill proposed by John McCain in 2005 to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that your beloved President voted against. If the democrats would have voted to reform this housing trouble, then this recession might never have happened. So quick for you all to blame the republicans, and act like the democrats sat on their high horse and never had anything to do with anything. So typical of a liberal. What is also funny is you all are waiting for your handout from the government, when all this money is just going to the people that helped get Obama elected. Have fun for the next 4 years guys, because I have no doubt Obama will go down as the worst President in American history. Bush wasn't good, but at least he kept us safe, lets see if Obama can at least do that. I doubt it.

It took Republicans eight years to get us into this mess and they expect Obama to get us out of it in a month. Sounds right to me. By the way, nobody cares about Ann Coulter anymore.

Yes, where were the Republicans when this economic storm was brewing?? There are those that are so against the newly minted stimulus plan, of all parties: what alternatives are they offering?? NONE.

As far as people thinking President Obama does not have enough experience: who is born knowing how to be president of a country, or anything for that matter??! He inherited a horrible economy, and now he is tasked with improving it, for the whole world when you think about it.

We need to all work together as a country (and world), and stop worrying about this partisan foolishness. Reason why I've never claimed a political party. We need to do what's best for the country!

Obama is doing just what he promiced. He is taking money from the middle class and giving it to those who don't want work, and there a lot of them.
Let these people go get a job even if it is picking up trash on the road side.

The republicans find Obama Disappointing???? Surely they jest.
Well, I find the GOP laughable. idiotic, and just plain ignorant.
So there!

"FAILED BIPARTISANSHIP"??
Ummm...bipartisanship is a 2 way street, you stupid rethugs.

GW, you want to talk about childish? What about when Reid and Daschel used the fillibuster on a regular basis? Even just for judges which should only be a majority vote? The minority does not have to just roll over and take it. The Dems proved that in the 2000's. We may be on the sidelines but we will not be quiet. Citizens should be able to scrutinize and question their government. Last I checked, we lived in a democracy.

You Obama lovers are still in the clouds I see. There is pork in the stimulus...just one example....$246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film. He promised the people would be able to review new bills for 45 days before action. He has hired several lobbyists for his cabinet. Most of his economic advisers are from failed government entities...like Fannie Mae, and have even been indicted. Plus that cheesy middle finger towards Hillary Clinton during the campaign..scratching his face? Ya right. That did it for me...how arrogant. There are creeps on both sides of the aisle, but Obama lovers see through rose colored glasses.

Obama has a long way to go, until he equals the disappointment of George W. Bush.

Still spreading that poison RNC! Hey, our country is not in good shape and a lot of people are hurting. How about doing some nobel – like coming up with some 'across the table' solutions to get us out of this mess. I'm not going to stoop to your level and make a comment how we got into this situation as a country.

Not surprizing the republicans don't like Obama, he is anathema to most of their failed ideas. For THAT I am grateful.

I hope they keep ON disliking him. I want him to succeed brilliantly, and to PROVE they are in the wrong corner. True, he will need their support in some areas, and it will be in the republicans best intrests to support him at times. ALL parasites do what is in their best intrests. Nuff said.

Oh please, disappointing??? Bipartisanship failure is clearly the fault of the Republicans. Obama has extended his hand only to have it slapped away by Republicans. The Republicans idea of bipartisanship is "do it our way", maybe they need to look up the meaning of the word.

Wasteful spending??? This country during the past eight years has seen unprecedented deficits under the Republican leadership. How much of that Republican caused deficit has gone to help American citizens??

Ethics? Now there is a good one for Republicans to tout, talk about hypocrisy.

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You guys have to be kidding me. You really think that the independents or Democrats give a flying leap about what the republcans in congress thinks. These are the same people who believe in tax cuts for wealthy. If the rich are not paying ftheir air share of the their taxes for the government functionality, then who will. The average tax payer will end up fitting the bill. So, the republicans are just wrong. They want to abdicate responsibility. Remember, we are in this position because the same approach that the republicans want to persue. Republicans want little functionality of the government and low taxes. We should understand what happened during hurricane Katrina.

Let me get this straight. The RNC is disappointed in the way President Obama is trying to clean up their mess. Please–go make your hip hop video and let serious people work on our nation's serious problems.

Hey! Instead of he said/she said let's get to the heart of our economic nightmare-and it is everyone's fault-Republicans & Democrats. Here goes: illegal aliens. Enough said, now do something about it!

Who really cares what the RNC or republicans think. They had 8 years to fix things, they completely screwed up, and now our country is feeling the effects of 8 years of do nothing leadership. You lost, get over it.

what a crock! was cnn asking the democrats monthly about what an unmitigated disaster w was for like 7 of his 8 horrible years? no.
enuf said. give the guy a break. the repubs blocking strategy will blow up in their face when the stimulus starts working. its other problems thta havent manifested themselves fully yet that are the wild cards.
that the incompetent clowns who drove the bus to the edge of the cliff are now complaining that noone is asking them to drive again shows the maerican people arent complete ninnies.

Hey Rick, Bush had no experience either and I'm sure you didn't have a problem supporting him while he throw the world into turmoil.

Wow, those smart Republicans think Obama is disappointing? There's a shocker. I hope President Obama continues the good job he's doing so we can see more stupidity from the Republicans. Memo to Republicans: Work together as Americans!

RNC are members of a "gang".....terrible hoodlums. Hell is too good for some of these folks. Their interest lie not with the common man.

Boy, the Republicans sure do die an ugly death don't they?

The RNC is just mad because President Obama won't kiss their a%$. He reached out to them, inviting them to the White House, even going over to the House, but that's still not enough! He said he would LISTEN to you, but he will do what HE thinks is ultimately best for the country. That's a lot more than the rethugs ever did. They didn't give a rats a%$ about what the democrats wanted, nor did they reach out or consult. Funny now how the rethugs are crying and whining like a bunch of kids on a playground about such things. Your party is an embarrassment! And you look desparate at every turn!

But you need to get over it because you lost. The People have spoken and it's not going to be done YOUR WAY anymore! You can try and block him and oppose him at every turn, but it's you (the RNC) who look like fools, not President Obama. I know it pains you rethugs to witness REAL work in action, but take notes. You might just learn something!

The greed and corruption of the last 8 years is over boys. Better get used to acting responsibly.

Obama and Congress have been a bit disappointing. My two senators from Arkansas are Democrats, yet they are suppose to represent all of the state which is close to 50% split between both parties. We have had one large spending bill that was only done and supported by the democrats. What should happen is that the republicans should not be so unbending, nor should the democrats be so demanding. They really should of worked together (lead by Pres Obama) to come up with a plan that would suit both parties – not rush the bill thru. That would demostrate a change. This attitude of blaming the other parties has to stop, it is tearing our country apart. We all must reach across politics and work together, but Congress is not setting a good example. If they continue the manner, then in 2-4 years you'll have a republican congress again and republican president. – it wil happen. But if they truely work together, then there is no reason Obama can't stay for 8 years and democrats control congress. But they have to represent everyone. Why not start now and set an example instead of looking and blaming the past.

My god, you people are so blind from hate in the past of the other party. Look how you despise or oppose other people's view, write it off as non progression and ridicule for being stupid, hate filled or fear mongering. I thought the democrats were supposed to be a more caring or accepting party for all people, but you are no different from republicans you have replaced. None of the senators or representatives from the Democrat party took into consideration any of the republicans view on stimulus but you expect to work together and be bi partisan?

I am sick of these misconceptions that Bush/Cheney failed the economy, but not regulating. Its not their fault, its yours, the american people's credit loving spendholicness. YOU spent too much, YOU saved less and YOU expect me as someone who is responsible to pay YOUR mortgages. And trying to prop us this failed economy based on service with no production basis will only delay the inevitable collapse.

It is stunning that the GOP has become so out of touch.
Or perhaps America has moved amazing foward.
Either way the GOP is dead.

"wasteful spending, failed bipartianship and questionable ethics"...hmm...sounds like the history of the GOP to me!

Spare me – was anyone actually expecting the RNC to give him a good grade? Reality check – they are the opposing party – they are supposed to bash him – saying anything else woudl mean, they, the RNC is irrelevant.

As Rush has said "(They) hope he fails". Nothing Obama can do will please these idiots. Maybe Obama would not be "disappointing" if he was doing what Bush was doing for the past eight years...ignoring the plight of the people, the economy and spending money in Iraq instead!! I watched "Right America" recently and realised there is enough ignorance and hate still among a small but virilently group of anti-Obama Americans, to last forever. The question is whether the GOP chooses to follow the likes of Gov Christ of Florida, or their blowhard Pied Piper of Presidential hatred. Christ is dealing with the real problems of real people facing real economic hardship and Rush is spouting from atop his luxury condo. That's like having the choice between listening to the school principal or the school's biggest truant, to solve a problem your child is having in school.

Obama has NOT reached out......he is offering lip service, and that's it. If he had truly reached out, legislation would have come out that we could live with. We CANNOT live with a return to stagflation and the welfare state. Been there, done that with Jimmy Carter........

Oh, give me a Break!! The RNC is what's dissappointing! The Party of NO!! They have their mouths set to say NO before they even here the question or issue!
What's Truly disappointing is the LAST 8 YEARS!!
One Month and they're disappointed!! WHO CARES??
What's Really Sad is the Many Really Great Republicans who have to be torn down because of the IDIOTS that are trying to take control of the RNC NOW!!
The Govenor of Florida, for example Obviously puts his citizens First and votes for what's right for them. They are So many others also.
I just can't imagine how they put up with this Garage from the RNC!
In ONE MONTH this New admin has done more AND BETTER than the last 8 LONG Years.
The RNC will never give in unless they change Leadership!!
That's the Only way they can Save the Party!!

Republicans,
ok so let me get this straight – eight years of george w. bush's messing up and then one month of so much more positive actions under obama, and you are "disappointed"? What in the world... Agreed that Obama administration might not be doing exactly what you wanted, but hey you are the minority party and Obama was able to get 3 republicans on board for the senate vote. He tried, you guys didnt get on the boat, acting like a bunch of 5 year-olds! Now you're "disappointed"? Give me a f-ing break!

So far the GOP hold the record for months of disappointment in a row with 96...make January 97. Are the GOP even relevant anymore?

I couldn't disagree with the RNC more. This president has done exactly what he said he would. I don't necessarily agree that the stimulus package is the right way to improve the economy, but it is exactly what the president proposed to do. Bi-partisanship is a two way street and the president certainly went to great lengths to include the Republic leadership, because it failed is not necessarily a failure on his part. In my opinion, the RNC is out of touch and their tactics of divisiveness are, hopefully, losing their effect on the American people.

This is news? I would consider it news if the RNC wasn't disappointed with Obama's first month!

I for one watch CNN and CSPAN daily, and from what I see and hear, I an more than willing to "wait and see", give this new Pres more time to do what he is trying to DO, after all, what did Bush do with that bailout money, we will never see results from ? I am not hearing or reading on these blogs much from people attacking Bush bailout bill ! Oh, I forgot, that bailout bill went to rich fat cats with NO strings attached, so why is this new Pres being attacked by the repubs ??? gee, "suddenly" the repubs have gotten morals ( after they got so much money from bailout) so now they think we will listen to them ????NOT

He CAN"T UNDO the mess Bush did in 8 years, in 2 months!...WE all have to help President Obama get the USA to the place where it's suppose to be.....All those who are negative can kiss my ASS!

Can someone please tell the editors at CNN.com that an anniversary is a yearly thing (ann = annual). Also that generally speaking, the RNC is not going to agree with President Obama being that they're the opposition (opposition = opposing force).

You need better interns.

Remember, you can't make it bleed so it can lead!

WHAT? Did you expect the RNC to give a good rating?? The definition of a 'critic' is that they do not think anything you do is correct.
HOW ABOUT THE RNC COME UP WITH SOME SORT, ANY SORT OF A PLAN OF ITS OWN???

GImme a break, THIS is not going to make me entertaining voting republican and time soon!

Hey GOP, I'm throwing my shoes at you! Go away and stay gone – you are a disgrace to America.

All Obama has to do to be a great president is ask himself "What would the Republicans do?" and then do the opposite!

The GOP is a mess. The GOP would be funny if it weren't so tragic. They need to get on board. Their way of doing things has passed. They blew it. Listen to this nation, GOP!

I reading the many posts here – I have concluded that America is doomed to fail now.

All you posting your ignorant comments are in for a big surprise! You would rather believe everything the Democrats (and Liberal media) have to say, rather than do a little work and find out the truth.

I hope you guys remember the ignorance you've displayed in this "historic" election, when you realize you've sold out.

The GOP has their faults, but they are right on with the disappointment. You should open your eyes, take off the rosy colored glasses and take a look at whats going on.

Then again, I bet most of you live off of Government handouts and that is why you love this new administration so much!

I'm proud to be an American, but Ashamed of America right now.

I too am dissapointed with President Obama's first 30 days.

1) The news conffrence when he came off superficial arguing with those silly Republicans.

2) Not leaving this massive stimulous bill enough time to be looked over by the American people. was it even 48 hours?

3) Not whipping Pelosi & Reid into shape.

4) While the arts and national parks are noble goals THIS package is about Jobs only.

However even with these dissapointments he's doing a helluva lot better than the last administration. but he's got much work ahead of him.

Javier,

Have you taken a good look at the first lady? She's Darwin's missing link

Memo to Americans: The RNC & GOP only care about their wallets. They would gut the people like a trout for a chance to put an extra dollar in their pockets. They couldn't care less about America her citizens.

The Republican Party? Who are they–oh, yea...the folks who brought us to the brink....

The President is the President of the United States of America–give him a little respect–and give him a little time. A month is a joke–regardless of the outcome.

The President is doing pretty well considering what he has to work with–a Congress that is one of the worst in history–.

The Republicans are only saying what is statas quo...and that's the problem isn't it?

you republicans had your turn and look where we are, so shut up and hope that you are wrong again, then things will get better, wher eis the loser bush now! hiding at home with his wife!

Is this not ironic? The person trying to solve the disaster the Republican party and their Republican president caused is ssessed as being disappointing? The Republicans all over have being holding up on all votes all across just for their own interest instead of "America First". During a very very hard time, Republicans are putting politics and their party's interest ahead of America and still have the gut to accused the President, "A Real President" of being disappointing.. "This is stupidity to the highest" and I want all Americans and voters to remember this come 2010 and 2012.

I CALL FOR EVERYONE TO POST INTELLIGENTLY.

DISCUSS. HAVE INPUT. DO NOT SAY MEAN THINGS.

QUESTION FACTS BUT DO NOT LIE.

DO NOT GIVE POLITICAL TAG LINES.

COME UP WITH YOUR OWN THOUGHTS.

DO YOUR RESEARCH AND POST IF YOU HAVE A POINT.

DONT BE BLACK. DONT BE WHITE. JUST BE.

And the last 8 years hasn't been a disappointment. Get your head out of your _ _ _!!!!!

The Republicans should not rag on anyone right now. They had 8 years (and 6 years of control of everything) versus one month for the Democrats.

Travis

He has been in office for one month, what failures? You're the racist!!!!!!

@Rick – he does not have the FEDERAL experience necessary?

Tell me, how many presidents have? Very, very few.

The Republican Party ruined this country and then for purely political reasons blame the Democrats for trying to fix it.

These people are inhuman.

I think the first month went great. He got alot done, even without their support. It's like your first month on a new job, once he learns the ropes to this thing he will be unstoppable. Just watch.

And really, who cares about cabinet appointees? Eventually, the right fit for each position will be placed. That's a give in.

I believe the "failed" bipartisanship is a failure of the Republican Congressmen not a reflection of Mr. Obama.

What, pray tell, did W do in his first month ....

If the Republicans believe that President Obama's first month in office is "disappointing," what would they call the last 8 years of the Bush administration? Break out the kool-aid for that answer all of you Republicans.

RNC will always bee disappointed in Obama!! They were attacking him before he was even sworn in. Shawn Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are the Dummest People in RNC, Fox New >>>RNC CHANEL, UNFAIR AND UNBALANCE. What ever President Obama does in the Office will be better than the past eight years of BUSH. He will succeed so shut of Rush, Shawn and RNC and give him a chance!!!!

Gee, the Republicans are disappointed in the Democratic president.
What a surprise!

I guess if he'd behave more like GW Bush they'd be happy?

The republicans need to understand that the private sector is not responsible for maintaining or countries infrastructure, the city, county, state, and federal governments are the entities responsible. Infrastructure is maintained with tax revenue and good planning, not tax cuts.

There are a lot of wealthy people who have the power to invest in our great nation. It is in their self interest to promote education, health care, and the economic growth of all citizens.

The republicans want to privatize everything from health care to education. Do we really think that greed should be the driving force when it cones to education and health care; look where greed has gotten us.

Why would anyone be surprised to reat tha tthe republicans are viewing the first month of the Obama presidency "disappointing". they ahve done nothing to reach across the aisle. McCain lost...get over it! I think Obama should continue doing what he's doing...if the republicans refuse to participate....oh well! Obama is the president....we all need to support him and help in any way to get america back on track!

I don't know if HE is disappointing ~ but I DO see that some of his programs/ideas definitely are. There MUST be a better way to fix this economy, especially since they haven't all agreed that this way will even work!

Instead it keeps getting worse! It was reported this morning on CNN we've ALL lost 47% of our savings since Nov. 2007!

I am truly stunned that the blithering idiots who got us into this crisis in the first place object to anyone trying to fix it. I'm also happy that they're doing such a good job of demonstrating why more of them should be removed.

Well my verdict for their 8 yrs. of Grammonomics was a total and devastating disaster for a large number of working Americans.Do I hear voices in the wilderness or is that Phil Gramm gagging on his country fried steak?

Ohio Man you need to grow a brain and the shut your face.

Republicans – please stop your whining!

President Obama is a cool, calm, & collective man, because if I were the President at this point I would really go off on these so call Republicans people can only take so much of others bickering, I know thats what they want they want to see him get mad so they can call him the mad black man it's not going to happen, he's to cool for that REPUBLICANS WHEN YOUR CHILD COMES HOME CRYING EVERYDAY SAYING BILLY KEEP PICKING ON ME, BILLY KEEP INTERUPTING ME IN CLASS WHEN I TALK, YOU MAY TELL YOUR CHILD TO WALK AWAY FROM BILLY, BUT WHEN BILLY PUT YOUR CHILD IN A CORNER EVERYTHING YOU TOLD HIM GOES OUT OF THE WINDOW AT THIS POINT BILLY AZZ IS GRASS THE MORAL TO THIS STORY IS IF REPUBLICANS WANT TO ACT LIKE BILLY THE FROG THEN JUMP IF YOU DON"T WANT TO JUMP THEN SIT YOU AZZ DON"T AND BE TOAD WHAT TO DO (yes I know it's suppose to be told for the smart conservatives) I DON"T KNOW ANYONE THAT LIKES TO CLEAN UP DOG POOP THATS WHAT OBAMA IS CLEANING UP.....................

I agree.. the first month of the Obama admin. has been a disappointing time. The disappointment comes from the fact that instead of trying to work with the admin., RNC has wasted time being critical and bipartisan. I haven't heard a single unique or forward thinking suggestion from the RNC, just a whole host of criticisms. We the people welcome a web listing of what the RNC suggest should be done to correct the major problems in our country. Make sure the list includes options that will take care of EVERY man and woman, since you think this is a possible task.

The republicans are simply "full of crap"

The RNC is not trying to slow down anything, didn't Obama even say that any bill that comes across his desk he would make it publibly available for five days over the internet so we could all take a look and see what was in it? Yes he did say that, but did he do it? No he didn't, so in my book Obama the saviour is a LIAR. And if he is trying to work towards bi-partisanship and yet if only three republicans voted for it, then go back and re-do it. Find a place in the middle of the road. Thats working together.

P.S. Obama is a liar. He said one thing, did another.

I find it funny that you Demo's have a ton of stuff to say, while us Republicans just sit back and watch/listen to you yap your traps. Typical...

Don't worry guys...you'll get what you voted for. Just give it a little longer...you'll be sorry!

Just imagine what a mess John McSame could have made egged on by the Palin thing... Thank GOD they didn't get elected!

Most of your English is so pristine that it just makes me want to take whatever you say as completely valid. You're obviously part of the uneducated, unintelligent, socialists that decided to let the country swing from one extreme to the other. Which, of course, is always the best way to go. Overcompensation generally pans out.

At this time, there is no one in the entire Republican party qualified to do an analysis of President Obama. You should consider the source before you publish nonsence.

Disappointing yes but unexpected, no. ANY candidate vetted by either
major party by very definition is part of the problem, not part of the solution. He is waffling on Iraq, escalating a war with no mission and
no end in Afghanistan. Refuses to even acknowledge the root causes of our economic problems never mind deal with them. Thinks he can restart the economy by trying to keep the bubble inflated that has to burst before a recovery can begin.Refuses to advocate for a sane foreign policy. Staffs his administration with Clinton retreads and the very same insiders from industry that created our problems in the first place. Hey America you could have fixed it by voting for Ron Paul
but no, you screwed yourselves again.. Way to go

Fred in Boston

This type of "news" does little more than provide a therapeutic Friday-morning outlet for frothing liberal bloggers...

This is funny. The GOP still doesn't get it... They looked at Hillary, and gave us Palin – bah ha ha ha. Obama gets elected, they decided we just wanted a black man, so who now chairs the party? Hee hee hee. They know something Obama did had to do with the Internet, so republican Pete Hoekstra breaks security protocal to Twitter his delegations moves in Iraq. ho hohohohoho! Many are taking credit for popular moves they voted against. Let me help clue you in, GOP. We Americans are smarter than you want to believe. The Bush years taught us a whole lot! You are so far out of touch with the masses, and just don't have the humility to "stoop" to our level.

When Obama is finished punishing the wealthy for their success, who is going to be around to pay for all the parasites on welfare that helped elect him?

And the last 8 years hasn't been a disappointment. Get your head out of your ...........!!!!!

RNC, are you serious!!!??!?? Obama is trying to clean up the mess that your party left, and you give him a grade of disappointing? The only focus of the Repub party is the 2012 election. Its time to stop playing politics and help the country. Offer the American people more than just tax cuts. By the way, can someone please explain tax cuts to me? California can't even give tax refunds, and its ran by a Republican Governor. If you can't provide us with tax refunds, how can you fight for tax cuts??

If Obama is "disappointing" the Republicans have been a catastrophe. They haven't learned from two election defeats and only prescribe the "same old same old".

Republican prescription for governing:
1) Lower taxes on the wealthy
2) Trash Democrats whenever possible
Repeat until next election.

We may hope that when that election happens, there will then be even fewer Republicans. The Republicans took over in 1860, when the Whigs were a failed party. They are now on their way to becoming a regional, failed party themselves.

Of course they are going to criticize Obama. They are accustomed to 8 disappointing years under the Bush regime.

The GOP needs to learn to work with this regime and not against them like a bunch of sore losers.

I think Chairman B-HO should read "Term Limits" by Vince Flynn.

There's a lot of similarities in what is going on at present.

To the liberals out there.... the Republicans have NO POWER WHATSOEVER...the GOP is the minority party now, and all they can do is bring reason to the argument...they cannot block or obstruct anything that the Obama-Pelosi-Reed regime wants done. After one month, it is painfully obvious that the left wing "leaders" have no willingness to listen to conflicting points of view. The debacle we are now in will fall squarely and 100% at the democrat doorstep.... whether it succeeds or fails.

I don't think the republicans are being fair in their criticism. Their criticism doesn't seem balanced.

I am disappointed too. I was hoping that when he was elected, people would start to cheer up some. I was hoping the stock market would turn around and start going up, and businesses would start hiring and things would get better. So far none of this has happened, and to top it all off we get a huge spending bill that will worsen our debt situation.

So yeah, I'm disappointed.

It's a month, give it a rest. I think he's doing well.

I'm a republican and I'm sick of the RNC being so damn divisive. Why is it that we have to pick sides in politics now. This isn't kickball in third grade.

I voted for BO, and I am disappointed, too. But, I don't need the RNC to tell me what they think – I already know. Moreover, living in DC, I saw enough of Michael Steele's political advertisement (when he ran for Sen. in MD) to know that this guy is a complete clown.

This two-party system is a joke. It's like choosing between Herpes and Hemorrhoids.

Republicans criticize Obama. Is this REALLY news? I'll concede that he's had a misstep or two, but the GOP is going to fight him tooth and nail at every turn in a pathetic attempt to save a little face.

Obviously the GOP is disappointed with President Obama. They would be happy with the same old policies that dragged us into this mess. This bunch of experts need to shut up and try to work together to help, not just criticize.

We need to wait until the first year is passed before we make our judgement. Not because I believe in Barack Obama, but because it is impossible to judge any progress without the passing of time.

It will by 1 year and probably 2 until we can make a call on this. Much like when you get a new coach on your football team.

I do not agree with Barack. But I must admit that George Bush financially was more of a liberal spender than has ever been seen.

I am not happy with the socialist agenda and we need to fight that. But, the problem is with our entire system. SPENDING is always bad. LARGE governement is always bad. Unfortunately I do not believe any more the lowering taxes argument because I believe there is a truth in both parties if you do the research.

The truth is Republicans lower taxes and spend causing deficits.
The truth is Democrats raise taxes and spend but paying some.

WHY CANT THE POLITICIANS JUST STOP SPENDING?

Here are the current spending.issues. You must also look at spending vs. GNP which hurts with Bush and may kill with Barack.

Carter caused HYPER INFLATION AND HIGH INTEREST RATES – But he only added 276 Billion to the national debt in 4 years.

Reagan slowed inflation and lowered interest rates. It spurred job creation while lowering taxes but never cut spending. He added 1.672 Trillion to the national debt in 8 years

Bush H – continued the Reagan programs but because of economic slowdown raised taxes and added 1.462 to the national debt in 4 years.

Clinton – with a Republican congress had the greatest growth for 4 years. He added 1.609 to the national debt in 8 years. I hate to admit but the formula with Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress worked well. I believe our National security was at risk but financially we were strong. 1 FACT that is true is that President Clinton created the Mortgage Crisis.

Bush HW – added almost 5 Trillion to the Nattional Debt. Socially and National Securtiy wise I believe that Bush was somewhat correct. Financially President Bush FAILED miserably. Bush should have fought the congress and changed the banking laws. Bush should have stopped spending. Bush focused on the terrorist and nothing else. I hate to admit but he failed us.

THE POLITICIANS ARE THE PROBLEMS. THEY NEED TO CUT SPENDING. I BELIEVE THEY SHOULD LEAVE TAXES AS IS. LET THE MARKET CORRECT ITSELF. I WISH BARACK SUCCESS. I WORRY ABOUT HIS PRESIDENCY BUT WE NEED TO SUCCEED.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

well...lets' review....lobbyists in the administration.....tax cheats in the cabinent.........massive government give-aways.....brokedn campaign promises...and more troops sent to war...yeah, I would say that is dissapointing

To Travis "Oh Dear. Don't criticize his failures, that's racist"

Interestingly enough, most people that oppose Obama are the ones that brings up his race more than those that support him.

Travis have a seat and hush...

RNC criticizing democrats? No credibility. Zero. Desperately trying to sound relevant by attacking. The day that the RNC gives credit to ANYthing a democrat does is the day I will buy them all parkas because hell froze over.

I can't believe the Republicans have the nerve to to say anything about Obama not doing a good job, thats alot of nerve considering that idiot Bush screwed our county up so bad no president in office could fix his mess for many years to come. Bush should refund our country all the money he took while in office. He should be ashamed of himself and tell the country so. He didn't do anything good for our country period, and Americans no that. All Republicans that think he did a good job needs to give their extra money to the people that are unemployed,the people that can't afford food, cant pay their bills, can't afford gas, can't afford health care, and people mental health care that he has created for people while was in office. Thanks you ignorant Republicans.

Boy, I am appaulled at these comments from DEMOCRATS... How childish... Nothing is going to work if this kind of attitude continues, please stop this childish behavior. I am sure even this comment will get a back lashing from the Democrats

The criticism by the RNC doesn't go far enough. Take the housing bailout just announced. Obama's message to home owners........... Dear Homeowner – if you did all the right things – saved your money, bought a house you could afford, made a decent down payment that allowed you to get a fixed rate mortgage & have & continue to pay your mortgage on time – well your are SUCKERS!! We ( the Obama Administration) are going to take your money and give it to irresponsible (or just plain stupid) people who did NOTHING right and bail them out. And here's a added bonus – since these stupid irresponsible will have learned nothing from their folly, there's a good chance they will do the same stupid irresponsible thing again & we (the Obama Administration) will take more of your money and bail them out again – maybe three or four more times. SUCKS TO BE YOU, RESPONSIBLE HOME OWNER!!

My verdict on the GOP : F for failure.

The RNC faults President Obama for failing to gain GOP votes? Didn't the RNC whip its members into line to vote against anything that didn't look like the economic management of the last 8 years? I don't know if the package will work, but I'm glad that Mr. Obama is taking the nation in a new direction. The Republican mantra of less taxes, but borrow and spend like drunken sailors has been awful for this great nation.

Republicans seem to be bullies when they are in power, and obstructionists when out of power. Seems fitting that Mr. Rush Limbaugh appears to be the flag bearer for the Conservative Movement.

Bipartisanship is a two way street, republicans. He's appointed republicans, met with republicans, talked with republicans– what have they done? They have resigned from the posts they were appointed to for unwillingness to work with the president and they have almost unanimously voted against a plan to try and save our economy. The votes of the senators are theirs and theirs alone. not casting them in favor of the stimulus package shows the republicans are not team players– not the president.

I suggest all the republicans forgo stimulus money to their states if they are so against this package. Give the extra stimuls money to democratic states and let's see where we are in 5 years.

I can not believe how the repubs are trying to sabbatage President Obama. It is clear to me that they are not concerned about the citizens of this great country, only about keeping there jobs. If deficit spending was a concern for them, why oh why did they not STOP GWB from doing what he did. Did they forget who is REALLY responsible? Repubs refuse to take responsibility for the wrong that has been done by their fearless leader GWB and the way he TRASHED america and now can not bring themselves to do the RIGHT THING. They approved everything GWB did and it FAILED, why not give the NEW PRESIDENT the same consideration and if he fails, he will not be re-elected. Repubs want him to fail and that to me is TREASON. As for me, i will be patient as our President tries to pull us up out of the muck that GWB so willingly put us in along with his JUST SAY NO to President Obama, selfish, greedy, racist few politicans that are just as bad as GWB.

Maybe if Obama hadn't lied to everyone things would be different. When exactly were the 5 days that the public got to view the Porkulus Bill before it was voted on??? Where is the transparency??? Where is the commerce Sec???

The verdict for the Republican party or as it is currently known, the the Grand Obsolete Party, during the first month of Barack Obama's presidency –A for obstruction and party first loyalty and –F for caring about the American people.

Man so many of you Democrats are so dumb it is not even funny.

the one point you fools never seem to get is you better be thinking your lucky stars for the Republicans to be obstructionist because if not the country we all grow up in will be no more.

maybe you clowns want to live off the government and have other people pay your way in life but a few people don't care for your kind telling us making a living on our own hard work is a bad thing.

when I think of worthless people, I see nothing but lazy good for nothing Democrats!!

What a surprise. Someone needs to tell these people that we tried it their way.. It didnt work. Bi-Partisanship works both ways. The Republicans are complaining, not that they were not consulted, because we all know that they were. They are complaining because they did not get what they wanted. They were loudly denounced in both the mid-terms and the Presidential election. The American people voted to go in a new direction and now they are complaining that their ideas did not get a place in the stimulus bill. From what I can tell, they are asking the new President to disregard the will of the people and stay with the same old failed ideas. When he chooses not to do this, they cry foul. Enough already. I have listened to all of their complaining, money for Acorn.. billions they say, it is not in the bill. Money for a high speed rail line from L.A. to Vegas, a pork project for Harry Reid they say, not in the bill. They have no compunction about continuing the lies and deceit of G.W. Bush and Company. No transparency they say, visit recovery.gov and see for yourself. There is more transparency in the first eight words found there then we had from them in the last eight years. America is in trouble and it is time for them to stop playing politics with the day to day lives of average Americans and become part of the solution instead of exacerbating the problem.
The American people will not tolerate watching these people attack the President, daily, relentlessly, as they did to President Clinton. Someone needs to tell them to pay heed to the new RNC chairman, Michael Steele. As he so ineptly pointed out to George Stephanopolous, any job that has an ending point is just work, not a real job. As each of these politicians is elected with a definitive start and end date of employment, by his definition, none of them have jobs, just work.. Maybe they should all go get real jobs and leave the rest of us in peace.

Did anyone expect the gop to be anytlhing but "disappointed"? The disappointment started Nov 5, 2008.

I am glad the RNC doesn't like Obama. They are the ones that have caused this catastrophe – and it is world wide. If they like what he was doing I would worry.

Remember those that caused the problems don't get to try to fix it.

And they think bipartisanship is something the Dems give to the GOP.

Very low IQ stiff I think.

Yep, and the last 8 years have just been a blast!

The party of "no" is saying no again. How is that news? Keep on Republicans...keep on...let's just see how few Republicans will be left with this type of mantra. Where are your solutions? You've got nothing!

RNC is ridiculous! I can't wait for them to eat crow! They have been nothing but the flat tire on this road to recovery. They have not added any solutions or added any value in any debate about fixing this economy and helping out the American people. They are the ones to talk about wasteful spending? The last administration was all about wasteful spending into their friends wallets. Get a clue!

This is from a party that ravaged the country for a decade. Talk about kettle calling pot black. GOP enough being a sore loser pick yourself up and be constructive.

...and the sky is blue.

Did anyone think that a Chicago Politician would live up to his words? He is taking this country down the wrong road, either revolution or socialism is coming. Believe he is the "Messiah", well think about it when your taxes are 50% and your children are starving.

The RNC has been nothing short of a failure to help the American people. They and their policies helped to put us in this recession and now they say that the man who is trying to fix their mess is disappoointing. What a crock!

The Republicans have fought Obama every inch of the way and are trying to bring him down with their obstructionism. The Repub governors are talking about not taking the stim help. Why would you want to have your state reduce it's services in police, fire and healthcare unless you want the people to suffer and there by point a finger "see I told you the stim would fail".

I certainly hope that the moderate Repubs take back their party from those Right WingNuts.

The cover story of the 2-23 Weekly Standard suggests using stimulus monies to place more police in high crime areas. Know why they are high crime? Poverty. Crime and poverty go hand in hand. Why in medieval times a person would have their hand chopped off for stealing a loaf of bread. The article mentioned paying one person to dig a ditch, and another to fill it in. Something like that happened in the movie Coolhand Luke, but it was intended to break a man's spirit. I have an idea, let's use the mony like they did during the last depression. The WPA projects. Most of our State and National parks were built that way. The San Antonio riverwalk was a WPA project, and look at the jobs and touristry it created.

What a joke! Obama has done more to improve the US in one month than Bush and the Republican congress did in 8 years – actually they did no improvement, they nearly destroyed the country. I used to be a Republican (before Clinton) but Republicans have become the party that "did-nothing",subsidized the rich (top 1%), destroyed the middle class and poor, doubled our deficit, ignored our economic health, thumped their bibles, and started (but could not finish) two wars. Unbelievable that we still have people in the US stupid enough to vote for these sad , ignorant, pathetic neanderthals.

RNC... dissapointing would be good for you... So hes lived up to your expectations...

To me hes been dissapointing...

And all eight years of Republican run Congress and George Bush has been dissapointing!!!! The man is in office for a month!!

Ideology certainly appears to be a term of convenience for the Republicans. Their 'ideology' of historically high spending, historically enormous government growth and historically widespread imperialism are enormous factors in the mess Americans are in right now, along with the allowance of the plundering of the nation's wealth. NOW they're claiming ideology as a reason for their disappointment? Please... I've always been for a balanced government, as I feel that this is what leads to the best solutions. However, if the Republicans continue with this tact, they're going to continue to circle the drain of irrelevance.

Obama's stimulus plan is a slap in the face to all hard working Americans. It reverses the Welfore Reform that Clinton enacted– under obama's plan, Its more rewarding to be a parasite on the state than go to college, work hard, and make responsible decisions with your money.

This is definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

This statement from the Republicans would be laughable if it was not so idiotic and scary. They are like robots moving together locked in step. Why don't they try to be helpful instead of impeding any attempts to fix what they screwed up.

They have their nerve. I hope more of them get voted out in 2010 and get rounced again by Obama in 2012.

The Republican idea of bipartisanship is "give us all that we ask for". The bill we got was clearly influenced by Republicans, which is more bipartisan than anything offered by their leadership when in power. We have to "Just say No" to those crybaby Republicans, who don't know the meaning of bipartisanship, and have proved it with their own actions. They're more interested in the Republican Party than in solving America's problems.

Hey Travis,
Stick it where the sun doesn't shine, little boy.

@ linda

When will you people learn that "checks and balances" refers to the splitting of power between 3 branches of government in order to prevent the tyranny of a dictatorship? Each branch serves as a check on the others' exercises of power and, theoretically, they balance each other. It does NOT refer to making sure there are two parties sharing equal say in the legislature, etc. THAT is somethign the people decide by casting their votes and elected the people whose ideas they agree with most...and the people did so on November 4, 2008. The GOP just can't wrap its proverbial head around the fact that the majority of Americans WANT the Dems ideas to be put into action so they elected a DEm as POTUS and gave the vast majority of congressional power to the Dems. We're sick of the stagnant, obstructionist nonsense. It's time for us to progress and the only way to do that, apparently, is to marginalize the party with the dumber ideas.

It is not so easy being the leader of the US. It is easy to say promises of things being different during campaign but hard to make those promises happen. For either Ruplicans or Democrats. The president still has to work in the confines of the government structure.

Ease up on the President!

Failed bipartisan strategy? Good. I'd be concerned if Obama's ideas were jiving with the losers who helped drive us down.

Because this blog is full of fat, bearded Liberals (the women too). They can't objectively look at anything.

Obama has showed ZERO leadership thus far. You have to look no further than him allowing Pelosi to write the porkulus bill.

His vetting process on Cabinet selections was a fine act of ameturism.

Sorry Fatso's, it's the truth......Obama is all style and no substance.

It was always naive to believe someone with such little accomplishment could change anything. Obama never had any credentials to begin with. With stealth and suave he was able to dupe the people. Obama is digging the hole deeper. Change will only come when we stop re-electing the same people to Congress. Change will only happen when people stop being self centered and greedy. Obama won't be able to change anything. I'm not even sure he wants to.

The RNC should be so quick to criticize. It's infuriating!

Oh please, spare us the crap. The GOP put us in this mess and now that someone is attempting to get us out they don't want it to happen. They will disrupt the spirt of bipartisanship until the next election when the next guy will run on that platform. This is only about politics, and control, not about running the country.

CNN is NOT unbiased nor is it providing the complete views of the viewers. I posted in this comment section only to see my comments moderated and ultimately squelched. The free press isn't free and is controlled by our government. There is no free speech anymore. Your opinions only count as long as you are drinking the Kool-Aid.

Republicans will not gain any respect unless they come up with new responsible alternatives. PS: If I hear the words "TAX CUT" one more time I'll puke.

SOUR Grapes !!!

RNC 2009

Long Live Obama / Biden 2012!

Who even asked them if the first place? The question isn't if our new President is winning the approval of those who destine him to fail. The blame for the failure of bipartisanship should be placed on the GOP that doesn’t even realize that it is the year 2009. You have concerns about the stimulus package doesn’t constitute you boycotting the vote and making the vote bipartisan. The President reached out to everyone and it was the GOP that didn’t listen. Bipartisanship can only come when those who oppose stop blaming the other side and decide to work together for the great of the country. When you criticize someone’s efforts or work then it should be constructive especially when you are working for the people. Many of their constituents were angered by the fact that they were looking in their own best interest instead of those whom they are working for. One month of turmoil on the behest of a failure of a republican president should not be a reason for the GOP or the RNC to place blame on an incoming President that is trying to fix all of the problems that he basically walked right into. The failures that they are referring to are only those that they themselves cannot fix and are too lazy to talk to their constituents about. Many want to make this a Democratic/Republican issue and that is clearly not the case. This is about stubborn people that don’t realize how to connect with the members of their party. When you have to revamp your entire, PR that means that you have lost touch with those whom you thought shared your views, opinions and idea. With that said, my evaluation of the RNC and GOP is that they need to look within themselves and figure out the direction that they are going.

Does bipartisanship lie at Barack Obama's door? What has the RNC done to promote bipartisanship with Obama? They have gone to the extent of ostracizing members who believed in bipartisanship. Talk about staying in glass houses and throwing stones!

I think we are all disappointed in Obama right now, not just Republicans. As a voter of his, he has gone back on everything he said in his campaign. This entire bill is pork, he is adding to lobbyists instead of getting rid of them, he said he would trim the fat of spending because of our debt, when he is actually tripling it in 2 years, he keeps talking of going green in this economic crisis when that costs twice as much, he is paying all the democrats that got him into office before helping struggling Americans, all his cabinet members have been caught with not paying taxes (not exactly the change in Washington he promised). Once again, he is the same old politician as every other politician and the whole country bought into this salesman. Oh ya, and when he criticized the auto industry for taking their private jets to washington and criticized AIG for their retreats, both the democrats and republicans took a retreat that cost half a million dollars. And Obama flew to Arizona to announce the stimulus that cost $600,000 just to fly, when he could have just announced it from the White House. Talk about wasteful spending.

Let's see. We have had a smirking chimp in the White House for 8 years who has destroyed our economy, put us in an endless war, and taken our country from one of the most liked countries in the world to the most hated, and the RNC said nothing. Now they are complaining about Obama after 1 month........ Unreal

WOW! News flash! Republicans think that the tremendously popular Democratic President is "disappointing!" Who would have thought it possible?!?

Well, as conventional wisdom goes, if you are making your opponents mad, you must be doing a good job. Congratulations, President Obama!

there is no difference between the two parties in our one party system.

they all want to take (steal) money from those who work, and reward those who are fools and criminals.

all of you who who think O is doing anything different than the last 8 yrs are ignorant and uneducated.

more spending and borrowing and printing is not going to fix our problem of spending and borrowing and printing.

only returning to the constitution and sound money are going to fix the problems this nation faces.

but americans now think the gov't is supposed to take care of them- you will be sorry. can't you see it already?

not being transparent on whats in the bill???? Republicans are being absolutely ridiculous. He has an ENTIRE website on whats in the bill. Go to recovery.gov and you can read the whole bill. What more can you ask for in transparency??? Maybe people are just too lazy to go and read it.

The RNC is pathetic. How dare you disagree with what they are saying...? They will label you unpatriotic...and a socialist. How dare you focus on rebuilding this country and trying to create a base for future change in our education and health system...how dare you.

The best thing to do...is not to change and continue on with the same Washington tactics:

Cut taxes for the big oil companies
Cut taxes for the wealthiest
Take care of anyone who makes 250,000 or better, if you fall under this parameters tough luck, this is America. We only give oppurtunity to those who came from money. The last thing we need is a bi-racial settin the rules and making executive orders. What does that mean...progress...now every black kid in America thinks he or she has something to say. Our power and greed can easily be diminished.

Let's all try and make up as much crap as possible...hoping this president fails...as if Bush succeeded...

Democrats are no angels..but the RNC should be banned from politics...after Ronald Regan.

Perhaps if the idiotic republicans actually tried compromising or reaching across the isle rather than demanding more of the exact same thing that Bush used to cripple the economy there would be some bi-partisan work done. The republicans demanded an across the board boycott of the stimulus package before it was ever discussed. Anything but their plan would get none of their votes. And they are being critical? And they're stupid enough to think people can't see that? Don't go home mad, republicans. Just go home.

Larry Apex
Hang in there Larry, but I got to tell you that these are pretty much all Democrat bloggers that actually turn a blind eye to the reality of Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi and Harrry Reid and their obstructionism at a critical time during the last two years of Bush's presidency. Because of those four people, we are in the current mess and bloggers and Dems simply want to blame the other party for all their woes. Tell a lie often enough, and people will begin to believe it.

Most polls show that the American people have a different verdict of President Obama. They also have a verdict for Republicans in Congress. In a word, "disappointing".

How surprising that the party who demanded that its members show "unity" by nearly unanimously opposing the stimulus bill now turns around and calls Obama "disappointing" because they opposed the stimulus bill! And they somehow think Americans won't notice the rampant hypocrisy. Ridiculous.

I AM NOT SURPRISE GOP WANT OBAMA AND AMERICAN POEPLE TO FAIL.. AND THEY WANT SEE ALOT PPL LIKE US TO LOSE OUR JOBS. SO THEY CAN COME BACK POWER. OBAMA HE'S NOT EVEN PRES MORE THEN A MONTH AND THEY TALKING LIKE THIS

I DONT TRUST GOP . THEY DONT EVEN HAVE LEADER EXCPT RUSH

The republicans should be ashamed, they are the only ones that see nothing positive so far! Sore loosers! It is time to get to work and do your job since the middle class has carried all the heavy load. The people are not stupid. Obama is doing great and we have and are working toward getting the respect for America from the whole world back. If the republicans can not see any improvement I just want to remind them that we do have elections and people do not forget.

The Republicans decided to vote "no" as a bloc– that's what happened to bipartisanship. They persuaded President Obama to give up some things he felt were important, but that he was willing to let go in the interests of bipartisanship– and then refused to vote for them. It's the old game that Lucy played in "Peanuts": you hold the football and promise you won't pull it out– and then then pull it away so the kicker falls flat. Don't worry, I don't think Obama will be lulled into that game again.

It's impossible to work in a bipartisan manner when the other party refuses to work with you. The GOP needs to be called out for its nasty game-playing.

Publishing GOP press releases is a joke.

The RNC needs to know that they are a party of NO MORE, thanks to their old ways. Why don't they understand that they do not rule the world. The very voters that they tried to keep down are the very VOTERS that pull them down and put them out of business. Over the last eight years Mr. Bush and them they have destoryed this country.

Mr. Obama and the Democrats will be potected by God. They are for every voter, not just the rich.

FIRST 30 DAYS OF OBAMA'S PRESIDENTCY FOR REPUBLICANS IS ..PATHETIC!!! thank god they lost because we the people did not want the losers!

This "verdict"from the RNC means the President is doing a good job.
These are the people who claim that, "bipartisanship is over rated".
Mr. Steele is a new version of Nixon, only not as smart as Nixon was.

The RNC have been disappointed since day one and will continue to be..
Let's be Fair since the RNC and most Repub leaders can not..
Anytime you have people like Ann Coulter saying they wish they had more leaders like Rush "DITTOHEAD" LIMPBAUGH YOU will only find partisan..
I have not heard one single thing the Repubs leader say they would do if they were in charge of creating the stimulus plan, not one...
Like a 15 yo they know it all until it's their time to produce...

Maybe Obama should have done it the Bush way!

Who cares what the republicans think. Their goal is to go against every thing that the president is trying to and they will continue this. They wont look very good in 2012, when they try to vote Sarah in. They wont have enough people left in their party to vote in a republican into the white house. The republicans dont care about the every day people and how hard it has been for them. Especially when one of thiers sets their with 7 houses and has 10 or 13 cars. Lets hope his home state dont vote him in 2010 and may others who are running again plus the other ones that are running in 2010

Even if the stimilus bill had been written to the Repugs criteria they would have voted no. They still stinging from the major spanking at the polls in Nov, so damn angry at themselves they cant see straight. Guess what RNC this is just the begining, they have sunk so low that its going to take efforts something greater than raising the Titanic to revive them and that assuming it is even possible at this point. Go ahead guys make my day, maybe you can employ Chris Brown as you new hip hop poster boy.

In response to Carl's ridiculously cliche comment, are you blind?

Seriously are you? Obama just wants to reward people for doing nothing, whereas the "past president" that's such an easy scapegoat for basically every one of your mistakes that you probably make, wanted it to fix itself, just like it always does. The Great Depression took how many years? There wasn't a stimulus package for that, especially 5 million to create like 5 jobs for people to monitor 500 at risk salmon in California. Read the bills newbies.

Keep it up Gop Keep it up, you did this During the Campaign And you see what happen He won,.People are tired and fed up with this Nasty Bitter Bashing you do Republicans Because things are not your way. go ahead Keep up the Bashing You will be Extinct in 2010 And God I pray you are!

Hey GOP, it's called "investing" not spending. Spending is what you did when you rewarded bank CEOs for robbing middle America; spending is what you did for 8 years wasting money in Iraq when you could have been investing it at home.

Interesting that they criticize him for failing to get a sufficient number of Repub votes for the stimulus package, when they had decided long ago not to vote for it (regardless of what was in it). If they voted for it, they wouldn't be able to turn around and bash Obama for failing to get the votes!

Is this a joke?

wow what a surprise!!! The losers who only seem to know one word "no" should be disappointed in themselevs. At least he is trying to get us out of "your mess" Unfortunaetly by the time he finally got a chance to do something, ti may have gone too far. If we had actually had a former President, who while still in office, who tried to do something other than put a bandaid on a large gash and hope it held uintil he got out of office. we may have had a better chance. Maybe if we had all that money thrown away in Iraq for the war to avenge his father's defeat, things would be easier. You all have done absolutely nothing to help the situation you all even objected to the housing solution before he ever presented it. You people better get your butts up and try to do something positive instead of trying to discredit him in hopes of winning seats in 2010 . It took 8 years of Republican greed and incompetence to get us in this mess Why do you criticize him for 4 weeks of actually trying to do something? I am so sorry I ever considered myself a Republican and I sincerely hope my Fellow Virginians will vote Eric Cantor out in 2010.. Instead of trying to become the hip=hop party you better try to become a believable party. By the way, the hip hop culture would never embrace your party because they are not stupid.

The Republicans continue to be divisive, and to play politics with the well being of everyday americans. They obviously don't care about the people who are the backbone of this country the middle class. They had eight years to get it right . Instead what do we have record deficits, the economy in the crapper.Republicans have the gaul to criticize Obama after one month! They can't lead so I say shutup and get out of the way!

The pope is a "Catholic" say cardinals.

How dare these economic terrorist say the first month is disapointing. they are the sole reason for it w/ their obstructionist and childish ways. You people should be ashamed. I hope you all get voted out. Soon enough the public will be sharing you Phone # and home addresses with each other and when we show up at you houses for redemption, you will know why it led to where it is going.

The RNC doesn't like the job Obama is doing. This is worthy of a news article, because ....?

I think the GOP needs to get over the fact that Barack Obama is now the "President of the United States". The President has reached out to the GOP and they refused to participate. The only dissapointment here is the GOP. They need to get over the fact that they lost in a big way.

Well naturally RNC considering you guys must have been in a brain dead coma the last 8 years while your leader and your roaming spirits were ruining this country.

And they said Country First, seems like all they want to do is take the ball from the playground and go home, and forget everyone else!!!

How can you have bipartisanship when the Republicans block every attempt? What a ridiculous statement. Instead of improving their image, they will waste their energy trying to diminish others.

Why does Obama think he can conveniently excuse himself from blame for the deficit? As a senator, how many times did he vote no on a spending bill?

What else do you expect them to say? They were ousted from control of the highest post in America. They are, however, labeling him too soon, therefore, gearing up for a massive feast on their own words. Eat up Rappin' Republicans.

The Republicans astound me with there tunnel vision approach to politics and economics.

But what does one expect from the party that nearly destroyed the US and the world economy.

So let me get this right. Republicans refuse to work with the President, march lock step together against every attempt to work together, and then criticize the lack of bi-partisanship? Call me nuts but isn't that kinda like criticizing your dance partner for not being a great dancer – when you didn't bother to pick her up on the way to the dance?

Every critical remark made by the RNC is a ridiculously stupid comment. We refused to ote for the stimulus so it isn't bipartisan enough.

The bill has money for special interest groups – but since they aren't OUR special interest groups it's excess.

The bill wasn't transparent enough – who cares that we tried to stone wall it as much as we could.

Your inability to adapt to a changing environment and work for the good of all the citizens of this country is why the RNC lost – and they still don't have a clue...

Keep up the good work President Obama!

Who cares what they think???! At least he is really trying to clean up the mess left by you Repubs.

I am very proud of my President.

I'm disappointed in republicans who take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh. This is a man who hopes President Obama fails. He sits behind a mic and makes 10-15 million dollars a year but hopes that more americans continue to lose their homes; lose their jobs; lose their pensions. Because that's how he would determine that President Obama has failed. How patriotic of him.

What a bunch of bull. The no credibility GOP is disappointed. Please do not let me laugh. .... 8 years of them is certainly enough.

I hope all those repub govs refuse the money and watch all of them get booted out of office.

We thought the RNC would give Obama a positive review? Someone needs to tell them the election is over and THEY LOST! I guess they're free to say whatever is on their minds, but the amount of open media space and coverage the RNC is getting is absurd. If this is posturing for the next term, starting off out of the box with a negative tone just creates a stronger link with the "old school" Bush, Cheney, Rove nonsense. Republicans, wake up and smell the coffee. America wants, has asked for, and has received CHANGE. You guys are just serving more of the old same old, same old.

I had hoped he would do better but that hope is going away, rapidly. I didn't vote for him so don't blame me.

wow, if the RNC thinks Obama's first month was disappointing, I'd love to hear what adjective they would use to describe the preceding 8 years...

idiots. The GOP has become a big, backward anachronism...

This is not newsworthy and the media should just ignore these guys.

The RNC should be ashamed of themselves. They should know that all of this happened during their watch. What they should be doing know is doing everything they can to help this president make it right and stop whining all the time.

What a surprise! Let this be a lesson to all who jumped on the novelty of an Obama presidency. The very thought that a junior Senator with little experience and little accomplishment would be able to change anything was naive and ridiculous to begin with.

You think it was difficult to live under George W Bush? Just wait. With stealth and suave, Obama managed to dupe the masses into believing him. Nice sales job Obama! He never had any credentials to begin with. He cannot dig us out of the disaster that Bush has left.

I put equal blame on the democrats in Congress for not standing up to Bush. Get rid of Pelosi. Stop re-electing the same people. Nothing will ever change until that happens.

If the Republicants say that about Obama why do they lack the testicular fortitude to say anything bad about that major league DUNCE: Bush?

What a bitter disconfigured party they have become. Oh, and yes those Republican Governors will take the stimulus money because they are two faced.

The party that got us into this mess is disappointed in the party that is trying to get us out of it. Wow!

The RNC is a joke. They think they did such a great job!!! Eight years of what? The republicans were in charge for eight years and they did nothing but let our country go down the drain.

Last eight years of BUSH DISSAPOINTING!!!

"Disappointing" doesn't even begin to describe how all of us outside the pathetic RNC feel about their guy's eight years in office. Hush now, Republicans. We'll get back to you when/if you matter again.

Well, most of the stuff they accuse him of is true...but then the smart voters already knew that, oh well, the next 4 years should be interesting.

The Republican Party is beginning to become annoying. They are like the sore loser that keeps beckoning for attention. Get on board to help move this country forward, or stay on the sidelines.

"The lengthy document goes on to criticize Obama .."
Wow ! The lengthy document for a month ?? Boy, I wonder what would the document that criticizes Bush would be ...

Bill Peterson, you have historical amnesia. The KKK has historical ties to the Democrat Party. And just a few years ago, a democratic party leader was a former clansman.

Give me a break! He is cleaning up a mess that our republican president mad for the past 8 years. Let alone trying to deal with the unethical way the country has been run. We all need to work together to get this country back on its feet. It doesn't help that every thing Obama does is mulled over and second quessed for days by the GOP and the media.

Obama is a joke I can't believe so many americans bought into to this looser. Every bill just gets his dream of socialism closer and closer.

Already they're complaining and blaming Aren't these the same "legislators" who were at the helm for the past 8 yrs? They're not taking credit for getting us into this economic mess Why is it always the "other " guy??? How many of them would come out clean if they were to be audited???

It would be nice to know how the DNC feels about this clown.

I don't see anything from Obama to be disappointed in, he is doing everything the RNC said he would do.

If any one thought that guy was going to be a good president they did not look at his past record.

Just keep in mind Democrats, that like your old friend Clinton this guy knows how to lie and make it sound like it's the truth.

The only good news for this country is we have 3 years 11 months and then we can vote this clown out!

Disappointing compared to the past 8 years of the failed Bush administration that left our country at war and our economy in a shambles? Oh, I see.

Maybe we should put the drooling puppet Chimp back in office. The RNC will be pleased then!

All of you claiming that the GOP is the obstructionist party...what is it that the DNC did for the past 8 years?

keep that criticism going republiCANTS...your party has damaged itself for so long at such a volume that you not only helped the shrub kill the party, but now you are digging the hole to bury the leavings.

next year we can vote out more of your ilk, muffle the rest and get on with the business of repairing the immense damage you have caused

There's a big shocker!!!!! hahahaha. That is like having this story, "Democratic Party views President Bush as a failure." OF COURSE they are going to say this. Man, CNN. Running out of stories. It's called cognitive predispositions. google it.

Wouldn't it be more productive if the donkeys and elephants tried to reach compromises and work WITH each other instead of only offering criticism to the other party? Ugh, it's like professional wrestling with ties instead of spandex.

I truly hate the Grand Opposition Party. They are pathetic, bitter, losers.

Man elected President has questionable ethics, skeletons in closet and has to "pay back" election through questionable spending.

BIG SURPRISE

and here I thought we were all going to sing together, hold hands and go back to Woodstock.

I would say that the American people are disappointed with the GOPs refusal and failure to work with Obama.

Keep it up ... at this rate, the Republicans will be the regional party of ALASKA by 2010.

What else would you expect from the RNC, whose party for the last eight years was to rubber stamp everything Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumesfield wanted and which has gotten into this horrific mess Obama came into and they expect him to straighten up their mess in a month!! Can you say get a grip. It took eight years for Bush to ruin the country, it's going to take at least that long to bring it back.

And the RNC may want to get a freaking clue about bipartisanship, it takes two.

The RNC needs to sit down somewhere because everything is not going to go there way how dare you say president obama's first month is disappointing you really should disappointed in yourselves for waiting so long to agree on a bill that we really need to boost our economy all i'm saying is let president obama do his job ad stop critizing him for every decision he makes.

It's not just Republicans disappointed. I am a registered Independent and find his first month very disappointing. Same old people, same old lies, same old politics!

Bipartisanship must include two parties, hence the "bi". The Republicans haven't had to compromise with anyone for a very long time, so I'm sure it must be difficult now. Love that the GOP is calling this wasteful spending. We didn't get this trillion dollar debt and severe recession by saving over the past 8 years.

Oh, this is rich! These corrupt mickey-fickey Repubs flushed this country down the crapper over the last 8 years with their greed and lack of any kind of integrity, and here they are, one month into the new President's term, feeling that they are in a position to criticize him. Amazing. The RNC really does not care about the American people! They care about their own sleazy self-interests, and that's it. The level of pure spite and outright hatred put forth by the RNC during this time of hardship is inexcusable. They had a chance to prove that their way was best and they blew it royally! Now they need to shut up, step aside and at the very least stay out of the way while Obama tries to fix this mess, if they are not going to try at all to help.
Here's a verdict for the RNC: GUILTY! Guilty of screwing up this country!

MAYBE YOU COULD CALL ME A "REPLICRAT"...NO I DIDN'T VOTE FOR OBAMA..BUT HE'S THE PRESIDENT...AND MAYBE WE DON'T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE IS DOING ..BUT THIS GOTCHA ,AND SOMETIMES VICIOUS ATTITUDE OF BOTH SIDES DELIGHTING IN THE TEARING APART OF ANYTHING THE "OTHER " SIDE PROPOSES IS COUNTERP RODUCTIVE TO ANY PROGRESS WE MIGHT MAKE AS A COUNTRY...THERE ARE SOME PRETTY BRIGHT AND WELL MEANING PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE...THIS JUVINILE "MY TEAM GOOD ,YOUR TEAM EVIL " IS TIRESOME....THE RUSS LIMBAUGH AND KIETH OBERMAN ATTITUDES ...AND ALL THIER CAMPS...GOOD FOR RATINGS BAD FOR THE COUNTRY..I THINK THAT OLD 'SAW' FAIR AND BALANCED IS SO OVER WORKED AND SO FAR FROM REALITY....LETS GROW UP...THATS ONLY MY OPINION,WHATS YOURS.................BRUCE LEWIS

yeah that would be the assesment coming from you guys. Failed bipartisanship, gee i wonder why that happened could it be because you all swore not to help and oust anybody that went against the grain. At least specter,collins and snow were able to put the country's needs first.

And who would listen to you guys anyway? You have no vision, no voice, and a small percentage of supporters thanks to bush, cheney,mccain,palin and rove. And steele doesn't change anything, you're still a group of myopic,dogmatic,bigoted individuals.

Disappointing would be most generous when describing the last 8 years of REPUBLICAN rule, so please-zip it RNC!

How convienient that one of the RNC's measures of success was how well Obama worked with them, when all along they were telling their members to reject his ideas no matter what they are! Would you even expect them to give him credit for what he accomplished whether they really agreed with it or not? Why is this even a news story??

OMG THIS IS SHOCKING!!!! The RNC and repubs acting like spoiled children? Of course they are going to trash Obama. How is this news CNN?

Really. One month in. These guys just keep digging their hole even deeper. Cynicism is out folks. Instead of your ridiculous quasi-racist marketing scheme that you discussed yesterday, how about actively participating in our Federal government, instead of sitting on the sidelines and crying foul every time the new President makes a move?!

Travis...it's not racist...as a matter of fact only you brought that up. They can be as critical as they want but if they TRULY want to put "Country First' may be the Repbublicans, and yourself, can take a '5 minute' break from flinging incitful words. No is being racist, and most writers who disagree can and do without going where you'd like to take this. Shame on you....move on.....

Republicans have not given the new President even a month before heaping unwarranted criticism on him. They truly want him, and by extension the country, to fail as Limbaugh ordered.

When will the rest of America wake up and realize that the Republican Party is the party of privelege, racism and treason?

If Obama is succesful, then Republicans are done forever. Why would they say he is doing a good job.

why is this news? the republicans are so delusional - it's comical - it's no wonder they got spanked in two consecutive elections.

Who cares what the RNC thinks. I'm just glad old man mccain is not in office

Dude, Obama's a joke, so that in essence is news in itself considering how so many of you uneducated voters threw out 2.5 years of campaigning and ridiculous promises that were obviously hollow to "vote for the black guy"

How is it disappointing when Obama is trying to help the country when the previous President wouldn't? The RNC did NOT complain when Bush ran the country down the tubes.

Keep talking RNC & GOP. The party you are today is not the party I once respected. Your aimless search for a soul will inevitably doom your continued existence and relevance.

Americans are disappointed in RNC!! and so those the rest of the world!!

im sorry to say this but the stimulis bill how is building bridges and ballparks and porn shops and all that junk we dont need is to help the people in america that is sufeering and why the new car and the plane for the new president its waisting money we need to put that money in something to help the market and to stable the econmy and spending it on stuff that we dont need wont help the famlys thats lost there jobs and are homeless so if we could have a say in it please spend the money on the people not for the stuff that wont help jobs

President Bill Clinton left us with a surplus. still the Republicans were disappointed, no matter what President Obama does they will still be disappointed. We are with you President Barack Obama. We choose you becouse we do not want the same leadership that have ruined us for the past eight years. So let's roll up our sleeves America and work.

The RNC finds President Obama's first month disappointing? This is headline news? It doesn't matter what the new president does, the RNC will find a way to criticiize it. In one month President Obama has gotten a stimulous package passed; added 4 million children to the States' Helath Care Program; made it more likley for women to be paid on a par with men for equal work; begun the process of undoing destructive environmental policies by the Bush Administration; proposed a comprehensive program to head off millions of home foreclosures and established strict guidelines to reduce the influence of lobbyists. I'm sure I 've missed a few. President Obama has done more in a month than the Bush Administration managed to do for years. The RNC should not be taken seriously.

The Republican party is a failed politcal organization. It has succeeded only in destroying the economy and very fabric of this once great nation. The discredited economic and social policies of the Republican party should be allowed to 'trickle down' the sewers of our politcal system, never to be seen again. Republicans should get on the train, or get out of the way. Progressive thinking, not a 1950's based political philosophy, is needed to restore the USA's economy and position in the world we now live in.

Maybe we should put the C- puppet chimp back in office. The RNC will be pleased then!

who cares what they say, they are a joke.

I agree. The RNC has been very disappointing in the last month.

The GOP is akin to the kid in the playground that always wants to win and if he doesn't he takes his ball and goes home. The President can extend his hand all he wants, but the GOP also needs to grow up and take that hand when it's extended. It shows more strength and character when you can agree to disagree and 'work together' for the common good of the United States of America!!!

The same goes for the Democrats in Congress and the Senate also!!!

R u seriuos .. from what i have read and seen.. The Prez. has tried in so many ways to reach out to repulbs. it just seems that if its not there idea or there way then its a bad idea...the Repulbs are like drunk drivers .. everybody knows they had to much to drink but yet they dont want anybody to drive but them .. and on top of that they say " TRUST ME I GOT IT.. I CAN STILL DRIVE JUST GET IN YOU WILL BE SAFE WITH US" ... but the funny thing is that they are disappointed in 1 month of Prez Obama .. trying to do anything and everything he can think of to help the american people , but they was ok with 8 yrs of help and doing anything possible with the tax payers money to help other countries

The only way the RNC would not have been disappointed would be if Obama stepped down and handed the presidency to McCain. I can't imagine a more irrelevant opinion or new story.

No, but what they say is true. He is already way on his way to become the next Carter.

The Republican party has a lot of nerve to question anyone's ethics.

I guess Obama isn't hip hop enough for the RNC.

It's probably a good time for some Public Relations type proclamations for the administration. If these guys were really good they could figure out a way to take credit for all of the success in Iraq!

'Wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship and questionable ethics:' They're kidding, right?

And after ONE MONTH...ONE MONTH, they are disappointed? After 96 MONTHS under Bush the country is more than disappointed, the country is decimated.

I expect them to be disappointed, but did they really expect more? He's just a slick talking liberal who road President Bush's unpopularity to the white house.

You've got to be kidding me. The RNC is a disappointment to america. Instead of working towards the betterment of all americans they have become the PON( the Party of No). Instead of putting country first they have already starting campaigning for 2010 and 2012. For the next 2 years, all I expect to see from the PON is more of the same rhetoric. More bipartisan BS that gets us nowhere. What a travesty, and what joke our country is becoming.

Are you kidding? The GOP gets us into this mess, then cries when someone comes in trying to fix the problem. It is going to take the efforts of all people to get us out of this mess.

Each day Republicans continue to show more concern about the economy. Where was this concern for the last eight years under "W"?
They did nothing! All of a certain after eight years of this. Why are they being so vocal? Mr Obama has done more in thirty days, than Republicans did in eight years. They didn't recognize the problems with the economy. As Republicans, let us hunker down and try to make the present policies work. We have a President that has inherited a problem given to America by the Republican party.

The reason his bipartisanship has failed is because of you, you idiots. Obama has reached out to you and you have spit in his face. You hope that if you say that he has been dissapointing enough times somebody will believe you. I guess I should remind you that YOU LOST! – get over it. You could care less that your party has ruined this country, you just want what's best for the Republican party, not what's best for America. Guess what, we don't need your votes, we are the majority. You are now irrelevant and the majority of the people in this country don't want to hear what you have to say. If you are not going to help, get the hell out of the way!

The republicans are going to have to do a little more than to just elect "step-n-fetch-it" as head of the RNC, in order to attract blacks, hispanics, and youth voters. If Steele couldn't attract any of these groups during his run for the U.S. Senate, what makes him so apt to do it now? Perhaps he will have bumper stickers printed that read, "RNC Black" or "RNC Hispanic", or "RNC Youth Voter", just like when he tried to trick the black voters of Maryland into thinking he was a black democrat by printing bumper stickers that read, "Steele Democrat". Attention republicans, the reason why you won't attract these voters has nothing to do with you party's lack of having a My Space Page, it is your message and policies skewed toward the rich! A hip hop make over for the republican party...ha, ha! Try not patronizing and insulting those groups as a menas of outreach.

What I dont understand is why Obama indicted the GOP for sticking to party lines about the stimulus when republicans were pushing for the bill to include things Obama promised on the campaign trail, like the elimination of the cap gains tax for small businesses. Its becoming clear that Obama's only perogative is to grow the govt so that the Democrats can micro-manage all private enterprise.

Ha-ha thats funny... why am I not surprised? Can you imagine RNC would say he is doing amazing job? Even he would do miracles RNC will be disapointed. Shame on you RNC!!!

If any one group is expert regarding wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics, it is the GOP!

To the RNC and every Republican/Conservative out there...GROW UP! Quite your whining and complaining. You got us into this mess and you are trying your damnest to keep us in this mess. You will pay for this at the polls. I can't wait to vote you out of office.

It is not surprising that Obama is a disappointment, he does not have the experience to be president. He never finished his FIRST term as a U.S. Senator. He does not have the FEDERAL political experience that is necessary to be the leader of this country. But the ignorant voter decided to put this trouble upon us.

All I can say is the republicans couldn't pass the muster to get someone in the office to fix anything so why are they bellyaching?
We know if they had gotten in there the rich wold have gotten richer and we would have gotten pooerer.
We know why they put Mr. Steele in there,the same reason McCain picked Sarah Palin. Think about it.

yawn!!

This is not surprising coming from the GOP. He's only been in office for 32 days. I don't remember any other President being under this much scrutiny. The GOP is totally forgetting that they were in power when all the signals started on this economic issue. THEY were the ones who passed the legislation that allowed these banks to do what they did. President Bush (GOP) and his cabinet were the ones who asked for the initial bailouts (with John McCain voting in favor of it).

So why now are they asking us to believe in THEIR policies? THEY presided over the largest growth in government in history. President Bush didn't VETO not a single spending bill during the GOP controlled congress. Where was the corporate tax cuts during their reign? Where was the suspension of the capital gains tax during their reign? Ethics? Let's see: Alberto Gonzales and the firing of the US Attorneys, no bid contracts to Halliburton (Cheney's company), build up to the Iraq (much secrecy). Oh BTW – the TARP was asked for and passed by Bush. The banks can't even tell you where the money went. There were some banks that received money that we didn't even know got money.

It's a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The GOP is asking us to forget their culpability in this mess (Democrats have blame too). But for them to all of a sudden to so call start their fiscal responsibility when they ran the government up largest in history is laughable.

I think the Rush-publicans should worry more about getting their own house in order.

Oh Please!!! Seriously! The Republicans are just pouting because Obama is actually doing something for America and the people who voted.

What a ridiculous statement by the RNC. Republicans are responsible for the state of our country today. Many – including the former president and much of his administration – should be thrown in prison. To hell with the Republican party.

Aaahhhh.... the Party of NO strikes again.... same tired old arguements with no concrete solutions (except their continual sreeching for tax cuts!!!!)

Thank goodness the country is not buying their b.s.

I'd be more interested in hearing an honest description from them of the previous 8 years. How about "disastrous?"

yeah very very "dissappointing". CAN WE COME UP WITH A WORD FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS????? Do you need a month to clean up eight years of mess? if so then its a "dissappointing" month.

I agree. The fact that the stimulus bill was voted on less than 24 hours after it was received is disturbing, particularly since Obama was promoting more transparency during his campaign.

The American people didn't have a chance to read that bill online and call their congressional representatives to let them know what they thought about it before there was a vote. Congress didn't even have time to read it. That doesn't bode well for the future of Obama's transparency or for America's future.

Without the pre-written speeches and the sound bites, he is actually a man with average intelligence and very little experience to draw on.

Amen to that...SPARE ME! RNC had plenty of time to get it together. Either work with Obama or get out of the way.

My verdict of the GOP after the past 40 years = Disappointing.

The day the GOP has any relevance, Hell will have actually frozen.

Yeah, I guess he should've spent his first month on vacation screwing around like GWB.

They're "disappointed," eh? Because the RNC had such high expectations of Obama...

This is not surprising! This is partisan. I am an independent voter who has supported both parties and I see the Republicans as finding the only way to redeem themselves after 8 years of secrecy and mismanagement is for them to blame Obama. Unfortunately, it is easy to find faults with Obama administration because of the very high expectations.The Republicans are not interested in bipartisanship. They are out of touch with the American people. They are practicing hypocracy. I praise Arlen Spector and the other two Republicans Senators who have put America first above party ideology. Question: How is it that republicans claim that there was no transparency with the stimulus or that no one has read the bill, when I knew what changes were made and TV pundits talked about it. How could you find fault with a bill without reading it?

What do you expect from the Republican National Committee? This is hardly news. In fact it is stupid to even report it like this is news.

In your headline on your home page, why didn't you include GOP or RNC, i.e. "Ticker: Obama is 'disappointing,' say critics"? It should say "Ticker: Obama is 'disappointing,' says GOP". I wouldn't have clicked the damn URL then. Keeping them honest?

Oh god, like the republicans have a real template of what a president should be. They should not be talking ethics after the abuses under the last president and there party. The party is on the titanic and they have no validity right now.

Obama is fixing what they left behind, don't most democats have to do that?

Obama has and continues to make the republiklans and their cult followers look like idiots. All I hear from them is constent complaining and whinning, never any real solutions. All I hear from their followers is a repeat of the republiklans taking points, never a oringinal thought or solution. For the last eight years we had to sit back and go along with their program. No transparency,lack of oversight,abundance of criminal activity, lack of concern for the average american, lack of concern of financial responsibilty. President Obama has been in office for one month and is trying his best to help the people of america. How dare you try to hold him to a higher standard, when your standards were so low. ITS TIME FOR THIS REPUBLIKLAN PARTY TO BECOME EXTINCT UNTIL THEY HAVE SOMETHING POSITIVE TO OFFER.

I can't wait for the huge bail out by Obama of the housing foreclosures. These people lived off credit and now they want the responsible people that paid their bills to pay for their greed. And then to give them a tax credit. I guess being greedy and stupid really does pay off. Next we'll be paying to spruce up the HUD housing with are taxes. God knows if you're gonna be lazy, ya might as well be comfortable!

RNC is disappointed? Are you kidding me! The very group that drove this country into the ditch are disappointed?! The very group that refuses to answer to the rule of law? Rowe, Libby, Gonzales, Cheney, Bush et al. Where were they the last 8 years? What a bunch of posers. Their states should get no stimulus money. Unbelieveable. Smear and fear as usual. No solutions, just criticize, that is all they are good for.

Well so much for CNN's "Breaking News". I predict these critiscms will continue for the next four years. I am sure President Obama is not expecting any praise from the RNC.

Oh please, even the outside world is looking and wondering if theAmerican people are really going to re-elect these self serving Republicans- whose mission is to oppose everything the new President proposes.

They reject the stimulus proposal yet they are clamoring for funds. When will you people put your foot down and demand better representation?

The Repugs are a disgrace; this country and world are going thru a economic recession with millions hurting and all they can do is say "no" and smear with lies. Rush and the thousands like him need to leave this country now! They are traitors and losers in life.

This has sour grapes written all over it. The GOP are nothing more than a regional party now and they know it. Their majority in congress for many years did nothing for this country except explode the wealth for the top tier Americans while the rest get scraps (outsourced jobs). The GOP party had no intentions of ever working with Obama in a bipartisan fashion. They are so pleased things didn't completely fall apart on their watch and are happy to see that Obama isn't going to have much success in getting things fixed quickly. It's a political strategy with all of our futures hanging in the balance..I'm sure Grover Norquist is jumping up and down with delight. Completely destroy the economy and the people's confidence in Gov until the US resembles a 3rd world country just to say " I told you so " .. And they call us on the left unpatriotic?

YOU TOOK THE OPPURTUNITY YOU [REPUBS] HAD AND WASTED SO MUCH LIFE AND MONEY ON YOUR WATCH. BUSH AND GANG TERRORIZED THE PEOPLE [REMEMBER ALL THOSE SLEEPER CELLS] AND BULLIED THE WORLD. NOW YOU ARE JUST A ROAD BLOCK TO RECOVERY . AS THE SAYING GOES.........IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LEAD THEN GET OUT OF THE WAY. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TOLD YOU WE ARE TIRED OF YOUR LEAD. ON A PERSONAL NOTE AND THIS MIGHT NOT BE PRINTED BECAUSE OF IT, BUT LIKE THE SHOE THROWER I MUST..........RNC........BITE ME!

along expected lines

Maybe he should just cut taxes for the wealthy and pray on it. That would be a better month I'm sure......

Actually, I know a lot of democrats who are disappointed with Obama, as well.

Has anyone seen the ratings for the RNC? What makes them qualified to rate the President?

I dont think its just the RNC thats disappointed. Any moderate or independant that voted for him on "change" can surely be demoralized.

oh, that's a headline, allright... as disappointing as... say... BUSH?

I am disappointed in the RNC and the Republicans in general. If they want to be relevant. They need to get in the game or go home. Do we really care what they think. Republicans did not care what the American people wanted for more than 16 years. They need to quite crying and grow up.

Oh, no!
The Party of "NO" speaks!
Not surprisingly they blast Obama with their spin and lies..
He reached out to them.
They spat in his face.
He moved on.
They're pissed.
They lost.
He won.
They did nothing under Bush.
They now want to take over Obama's administration.
Repugs:
Just SHUT UP, SIT DOWN and DO NO MORE HARM!!!!

The republican party is irrelevent . The only thing that keeps it going, is the media's search for anything negative to fill its space and time. But the people have already moved on without them.
They will either be replaced by anew more centrist party or our country will return to a Jeffersonian Democracy as it was at that time . One party with diverse and proper programs. The days of Rove and Limbaugh will slowly recede into oblivian.

ha...as if they would say anything useful.

Really... It's amazing that only one side is responsible for bipartisanship. You know, as the party of personal responsibility, I find it Ironic that the GOP would find it has no responsibility for how issues play out in Washington. Crying like school girls who don't get their way when they fail to realize that Most of America has rejected their ideology.

IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO, idiots. By the way, how do you think the rest of America would grade you clowns on the job you're doing??? Obama's approval is much higher than yours. What idiots you are.

The RNC needs to look in the mirror.

I would be shocked if they didn't say it wasn't disappointing. RNC you know what is disappointing. You pimp a black man to head your committee like that is going to change your image. And then for him to come out and say that the Republican party is going hip hop. That is truly insulting my friend. Have you all been so far out there that you don't realize that regular individuals are human being and not monkey's that you are trying to communicate with. WORD OF ADVICE. "Take a page from Mccains' play book, It did not work with Sarah Palin and it's not going to work for you guys with Steele. (well it didn't work with the women let's see how stupid black people are) It will not work with African Americans either. Momma didn't raise NO fool. The balls you guys have.

Too bad for them. It could have been bi-partisan, if the Repugs would have participated. Obama reached out, but cautioned them not to come to the table with the same old ideas that haven't worked. They didn't like the package, but had no real new ideas (tax cuts foster corporate greed, not economic growth). I am so tired of hearing all the whining from the right. They need to figure out how to get more of what they want, by reaching out themselves. It's not their ball game anymore, and this time they can't just take their ball and go home. Boo-hoo.

NO WONDER WHY THEY DID NOT VOTE FOR THE RECOVERY PACAKGE. NOW THE SET OF HYPOCRITES FOR THE MONEY. THEY ARE A TOTAL FAILURE, AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN SEE STRAIGHT THROUGH THEM. SEET OF PHONIES.

I am not dissapointed in Obama. I beleive this country will turn itself around, one person, one positive good deed at a time. President Obama did reach out to the "other side", but not many were interested.

Good luck to all the people in all parties, who have the best interests of the American people at heart.

I would like to see the RNC do the President's job.

The failed bipartisanship is not Obama's fault. The Republican members of Congress have been invited to the table to help resolve the economic problem. Did they offer anything of signficance? I don't think so.

For the RNC to talk about questionable ethic is ludicrious! If that isn't the pot calling the kettle... The RNC has NO ROOM TO TALK. The ethics of the previous administration, or the lack there of have put us into a war we will never win, made sure to line the pockets of all of their friends (including their friends in the Middle East), and severely diminshed our good standing with the rest of the world.
In addition, they produced a VP candidate that is a complete airhead.

As far as I am concerned the RNC can sit down, and shut up!

we need to just say no to this massive obama and congressional spending. enough is enough DO NOT SPEND OUR CHILDRENS AND GRAND CHILDRENS MONEY. lousy corrrrupt govt leaders greedy brokers and idiots who bought homes who couldnt afford them is no reason to punish future generations only help the truly responsible needy AND quit subsidizing lazy and dishonest people who got us in this mess. those corrupt politicians franks dodd
and any one else kick them out now obama is not the solution HE was and is also a part of the problem. lets act like adults and be responsible spreading out your neighbors wealth will just make everyone poor then WHAT.

The RNC should not voice an opinion – since they seem hell bent in destroying every idea that President Obama is tryingto use in stabilizing the financial woes of this country. Their actions make me think they want this country to financially go under -

The Republicans fail to recognize that bipartisanship is a two way street. The Presidents failure at bipartisanship is their failure as well.

Where were the republicans during the Bush Administration.

Who ran the country in deficit?

Who started a war they had no reason to start.?

I think they need to look in the mirror before criticizing this new

administration. I know; they looked in the mirror and did not like what

saw; so instead they are thrown stone while standing in house made

out of glass.

let's review...............lobbyists in the administration.....tax cheats in the cabinent................massive fiscal give aways.............going back on campaign promises....can you say NAFTA......and more troops sent to war......yes.....I would say this is dissapointing

"Obama's first month has been marked by wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics,"

oh please.. like RNC was not wasteful in the past 8 years? Like we care about what RNC think.

THEY DUMP 8 YEARS OF CRAP ON THE MAN AND EXPECT HIM TO FIX IT IN 1 MONTH? WITH IDIOTS LIKE THIS, I'M NOT SURPRISED WE GOT INTO THE MESS WE ARE IN UNDER THEIR LEADERSHIP FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS. IF THEY WILL JUST SHUT TO HELL UP AND AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT THE MAN IS TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, WE WILL GET IT DONE. THEY INHERITED A COUNTRY WITH SURPLUS AND SUCCESSFULLY TOOK US IN THE CRAPPER. SO I DON'T THINK THEIR THOUGHTS DESERVE A LOT OF CONSIDERATION. ENOUGH SAID.

Really, this is news...what's next, Boston Fans Don't Like The Yankees; Really! Give us a break, no...give us news.

MEMO TO REPUBLICANS: YES, Obama did not get a mandate last November...HOWEVER, he did not win in a close tie either. That combined with your losses in Congress combined with 8+ years of the mantra of less regulations, governement caring and involvement equals you to seat at the back of the bus. Yet the WHITE HOUSE is still willing and waiting to work with you...if you can some how grow out of your whinning, hissy fit, drama queen rolls you are designing for yourself...spoiled loosers; PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

Really, this is news...what's next, Boston Fans Don't Like The Yankees; Really! Give us a break, no...give us news.

MEMO TO REPUBLICANS: YES, Obama did not get a mandate last November...HOWEVER, he did not win in a close tie either. That combined with your losses in Congress combined with 8+ years of the mantra of less regulations, governement caring and involvement equals you to seat at the back of the bus. Yet the WHITE HOUSE is still willing and waiting to work with you...if you can some how grow out of your whinning, hissy fit, drama queen rolls you are designing for yourself...spoiled loosers; PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

No one can accuse Michael Steele of being biased, soft, etc (being that he and the president is black). He will go as far as decency allow by not working with Mr. Obama. Mr Steele, Mr Steele – what r u trying to prove. Careful of what you are doing as my grandmother will say "the higher the monkey climbs the more he is exposed". Does it mean that u being black u will make sure u are not working with the president in the fear that u will be accused of "brotherhood". This is not about u or not about Mr Obama this is about America and it citizen. It is ok to criticize but in my opionin u seem to take things to a differnt level. i hope one day u will be elevated to the level of president but be sure if u continue down this path u might be always looking in.

DUH???

Shocker. The RNC is underwhelmed by Obama. Thanks for this breaking news update CNN.

Too bad they toed the Party line for the last eight years and didn't express any disapproval of Mr. Bush while he led us down the road to ruin.

What?!!! The RNC is disappointed in Obama?!!! How could this have happened? What will we do?

It's pretty obvious that the Republicans have decided that the only way they can combat this president is to oppose him at every turn on every issue, that is, unless you live in a state that was strongly for Obama. It took Obama less than a month into his presidency to do something about housing. How long did it take GWB and the Republicans in Congress to act? Oh wait . . . they didn't do anything!

Of course, because the RNC, GOP want Obama to fail, so they will say all negative and refuse to cooperate. Silly, immature, selfish, pocket lining ingrates those republicans are. Get over it.

In other news, the sky is blue, the Pope is reported to be Catholic, and bears defecate in the woods.

When you elect a president based on his youthful good looks, race, and rock-star performances at the podium – rather than the quality of the person, his ethics, past work record, performance, experience and ability; you are absolutely bound to be disappointed.

No surprises here. He is just your average self-serving political hack, willing to promise and do anything to get himself elected, then can't or won't deliver on the promises.

There is a bright side to this. If Obama really does have a leftist socialist agenda, and if he, Heaven forbid, actually wants to undermine the Constitution, then he will not be any more successful at that than he is at playing president.

Republican sour grapes. The R's are becoming spoilers. I'm an ex-Republican and I'm happy I changed. Compared with most first month presidents, Obama is acting intelligently and getting things done in a messy Republican-made mess.

CNN-
Who cares what the RNC things? And CNN, why do you think this is news?

The US is on life support, and you insist on putting "nonsensical" stuff like this online. I continue to believe, you too CNN, want Obama to fail as well.

My 2cents.

Come Mr. Steele. That's not very hip hop. The RNC is is already failing at their new goal of reaching out to the urban-suburban hip-hop demographic.

Shouldn't the statement have said "Obama's first month in the hizzie was whack. Too much bling-bling, throwing up too many gangs signs, and his ethics are all crunked up"

Maybe he should just cut taxes for the wealthy and pray on it. That would be a better month for sure.....

If the republican's are disappointed, I know Obama is on the right track.

Obama could have turned everyone in America into billionairs, ended world hunger, turned the national debt into a 50 trillion dollar surplus, ended the Israeli-Palastinian conflict and made Mars habitable for colonization, and the republicans would still have been disappointed. Please, some real news.

The guy's been in office for 1 month and he's inherited a mess that the Republicans spent 8 years making....who cares what they think?!??!

My god, he's had a whole month and hasn't undone the damage of Bush's 8 years? I guess he's not the man we thought he was.

Seriously, could the GOP have any less credibility at this moment? They need to switch their Aerosmith bootleg from "Back in the saddle" to "Dream on"

So surprising that the RNC is disappointed that they can't continue their "brilliant" economic strategy of giving tax cuts to wealthy people. They continue to support the strategy of greed and "free market" principles that's worked so well that our economy is in a tailspin while they continue to be in denial. As if these tax cuts are not just as responsible for the deficit as spending is...and to continue tax cuts while funding and supporting a meaningless war in which $125 billion "went missing". Honestly, how can their criticisms be taken remotely seriously.

The Republicans are accusing Obama of not being bi-partisan. I am speechless! They invented partisan politics. They are irrelevant, why do we care what they think!

The RNC is lost and confused they don't know what to do or say If it was not for the RNC the country would not be in this fix. Time for them to step aside and let someone work and try to fix this mess.... I am sick of them and all this winning their ideas did not work now it is time for new ones.

Oh what a surprise. ahahahha.

And so proud of the 1.35 TRILLION dollar tax cuts bush gave the rich. mmm yeah. you betcha!

The RNC is disappointed in Obama. This is news? Please spare me!

The RNC is disappointed because the Obama administration refuses to accept their failed policies of trickle-down economics and socio-religious blackmail. I thought the American voters expressed THEIR disappointment with the RNC last November.

He orders Guantanamo shut down, tries to end secret prisons and torture, and brings far more transparency to the executive branch than the previous administration. . .and he has "questionable ethics"?

Failed bipartisanship? Because he didn't give enough tax cuts? Hmm. That's funny - I don't seem to recall trickle-down economics working that well.

I really, really hope that the Republican party responds to losing the recent elections by becoming increasingly radical. Looking forward to Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor Limbaugh in 2012!

HA! HA! HA! HA!....... what a bunch of HYPOCRITES. The ONLY BIG disappointment is the RNC's recent statements about going "HIP HOP, TECHNO or COOL". HA! HA! They are seriously delusional or smoking the same pipe Micheal Phelps was puffing on!!

These are the same clowns who continue to talk trash about everything and anything President Obama and his campaign staffers accomplished and YET, the RNC themselves are trying to COPY EVERYTHING President Obama and his campaign staffers did in the hopes it will help their Titanic from sinking!!! How stupid is that?

These are the same copycats who continue to cry "wolf" over and over and YET can't seem to come up with ONE original plan to call their own. Everything is either stolen, borrowed, robbed or blatantly copied from everyone else.

The RNC is a PARTY strictly controlled and managed by the SAME OLD SOUTHERN WHITE MEN, not Michael Steele. Michale Steele is NOT only driving the RNC off the nearest cliff, but these WHITE SOUTHERN MEN have their foot on the gas peddle the whole time!!

Don't you ever wonder WHY Michael Steele DID NOT win his run for a Senate seat? That's because these same old white men DID NOT back him, they backed the other WHITE guy. PUHLEEZE...let's not get it twisted, let's call a spade a spade.

The RNC thinks that by putting a black man up front is going to "trump" another black man, their SADLY mistaken. African Americans can see right through these types of "segregated mentality." being dished out by the RNC and GOP. America is NOT buying this BS anymore, we are so DIVERSE country and the RNC fails to understand this fact over and over. They've IGNORED minorities for decades and NOW that they NEED the support of minorities, what do they do? They insult their intelligence with this BS bigotry. Thanks, but NO thanks.

Obama has been disappointing. Hope and change. hah

Did anybody expect anything different from them?????
This is so obvious.

Please RNC go away with your bickering. Not like you did anything for the people. You were ok with financing the 'golden tiolets'

I think he performed EXACTLY like I thought he would. He's a marxist/socialist & has done more in one month to destroy this country than Bush did in 8 years & YES I do think that Bush did some harm to us while he was in office.

I didn't vote for Obama, but I'm willing to give him a chance.

It's too early to criticize him. He has the worst job in the world.

The RNC no doubt finds President Obama disappointing in that he is not catering to huge corporations and allowing them to run our country's economy into the ground as his predecessor did.

I'm not buying their verdict and I doubt many other people are either. RNC propaganda....plain and simple.

Yeah, they are disappointed that they got left behind this past election. Same old tired policies that got us into this mess is all they have to offer.

Obama is way over his head. You can only fake competence for so long. He is going with the old Jimmy Carter play book that we know does not work. The "responsible" majority will not put up with paying for everyone elses lack of fiscal judgment.

That's okay. We're all disappointed in the RNC.

"Stuff it", Michael Steele. It looks like the Republicans are doing what they do best. When the going gets tough, the Republicans go negative....or should I say, "off the hook".

This is typical of the RNC. I agree with Patman. This is not news. The RNC is disappointed in everyone who are not members of the RNC.

I hate to ask this question but feel compelled. WHO REALLY CARES WHAT THE rnc thinks??

it is amazing that the party that started this problem is blaming the person trying to fix it. The party that decided not the coorporate is blaming the person who extended an olive branch and met with both republican congress and senate members to get their input. it is amazing that the party that did not want to do anything is blaming the person trying to do something. And even more confounding is that the party that wasted and can't acount for tmost of the bailout money is blaming the person who is trying to instill accountability in the stimulus package. Another reason why they are out of power.

GOP last 8 years ...very very disappointing. Grow up.

Gee. Republican's unhappy with Oboma's one month performance when they did nothing but put road blocks in his way. Surprise Surprise.

Did you really think the inexperienced one could do anything? Geez, give me a break. By the time his 4 years are through, many of us will be too! Too little, too late. But! He's taking care of his kind.

being a conservative i will just say this. It is the fault of the Republicans for not being more transparent over the years either. But they are right on, Obama has promised so many basic things only to break them. No lobbyist, no special interest, no ear marks, no wasteful spending and he pledged to have a cabinet full of top shelf honorable people only to see them drop like flies because of tax and ethical issues.. Pelosi said the same things when she took power 2 years ago yet Rangle, Dodd, Frank and a number of other congressional members have been entrenched in controversy and have had not answered to any of their wrong doings. But instead of the dems correcting their glaring issues they will keep on keeping on simply by trying to point out where republicans went wrong during the last blah blah 8 years blah blah. Obama promised a different setting in Washington instead he brought more of the same and if the last month is any indication, he has put corruption, lying and double standards on a fast track.

I am NOT surprized!!!! I've been extremely dissappointed.... and by the way I voted for him...I regret..

....so, the RNC has discovered the 'best offense is an outrageous defense'. What else can they do – after virtually sinking....no – correct that – wilfully scuttling the economy, the credibility, the pride of the American people, they can do little else but, be OFFENSIVE! Such commentary/critique is disgusting! And, colossally un-patriotic. Now, at a time, when TeamUSA needs ALL the players to endorse the new playbook, the RNC can only bicker, bitch and blindly strike out at actual,
constructive progress. It would appear that they believe, that if they can create in the minds of the American public, the idea that there is a new Emperor – they can then proceed to sell everyone on the caliber of that Emperor's clothes. Beyond disgusting – factually and actually, cowardly.
Talk about tea kettles and pots........time for these 'critics' to grow up!

Maybe if CNN stop being the GOP station and report more about real news. For instance why can CNN money talk about the good and the bad about the foreclosure program. Instead your reporters only talked about why the program is so bad. Do real reporting CNN. Your station is becoming another Fos News.

I can't recall, did they write this condemnation before of after he won the election. What a joke!

The RUPLICANS ARE LOOSERS, NO WONDER WHY THEY DID NOT VOTE FOR THE RECOVERY PACAKGE. NOW THE SET OF HYPOCRITES FOR THE MONEY. THEY ARE A TOTAL FAILURE, AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN SEE STRAIGHT THROUGH THEM. SEET OF PHONIES.

The understatement of the year

And how do we rate the rnc? Bottom of the barrel.

WHAT IS EVEN MORE DISAPPOINTING IS THE FACT THAT OBAMA STILL HAS NOT PAID THE CITY OF CHICAGO HIS TAB FOR USE OF GRANT PARK ON ELECTION NIGHT FOR THE RALLY. HE STILL OWE OVER 1 MILLION DOLLARS.
HE IS GOING TO STICK IT TO THE TAX PAYERS OF THE CITY AND HIS DIRTY POLITICIAN FRIENDS ARE GOING TO LET HIM GET AWAY WITH IT.
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH MR. PRESIDENT. YOU SAY THIS IS THE ERA OF RESPONSIBILITY, PAY YOUR BILL!!!

WOW!
"I'm shocked, I'm shocked" to paraphrase "Casabalca".
As obstructionists, what else can one expect from the RNC-GOP.
This isn't news by the way CNN – It's spreading dis-information from a less-than-creditable group like lets say the Arian nation – Thanks...

If the RNC is disappointed, then you're doin' a heckuva job Baracky!

I'm so tired of political 'tit-for-tat'...on both sides! Good Lord, the man hasn't even been in office two months yet!

Why is this a headline? This is just the RNC newsletter that they had probably already drafted before President Obama took office. What would you expect the Republicans to say?

Disappointed!?! Where were they when Bush was letting the ship sink? All they do is tear this new administration down – they have no ideas except to cut taxes.

i think it's funny how after one month some are so quick to have an opinion on how he's doing. here's a novel idea, let the guy do his job. he has not tried to hide any info on the stimulus plan, he has been pretty open with the things he does and he makes a point to include the public in on what he's doing.

how about after 4 years, we then talk about the job he did.

Of course the RNC will be critical. Compared with Bush's first month, Obama is a world beater at getting things done. Sour grapes.

did you expect to hear anything else from the RNC? they think this whole thing is a game, about scoring points, their job should be to work to make country better, not just complain at every moment. They come across as cry babies, and I am a register republican. I will be changing to independant soon.

The world sees the Republicans as a “rogue party” – anti American – anti World.

They not only have “no credibility” but are now seen as the “root cause” of this major world wide depression and current world unrest.

It is very possible that they will continue to be demonized, held in contempt and blamed for everything that is negative in the world.

A recent European poll had them listed as the “second worst” threat to world peace.

Not a good time to be Republican! – I would change the name!

This is expected. The worst is yet to come. His Illinoise friends are all corrupted. What about him?

Most Americans have been disappointed for the last 8 years. We don't really care if the few remaining Republicans aren't happy.

How many articles about Obama is CNN going to dedicate to the opinion of the GOP? Of course they don't like what Obama is doing, they've made it clear they're not interested in doing anything but being sore losers and throwing expensive hissy fits.

If by "failed bipartisanship" they mean "doesn't do exactly what we want him to do" then I guess they'd be correct, but I don't see any Republican Senators jumping at the chance to cooperate with Obama, either.

And "questionable eithics?" Until this president rolls back civil rights, encourages torture, and brings us into an unjustified war all under the guise of "keeping us safe," I think the RNC should be careful about throwing stones around their glass house.

I am afraid I cannot believe ANYTHING the Rebublicans say about President Obama based on their "behavior" over the last month....and I'm a REPUBLICAN!!!

That is what is TRULY depressing.....

The RNC can go to hell for all I care. In only one month Prez Obama has achieved more than they did in eight years. They help W. drive this country over a cliff. They need to stop yammering and get a life. Obama is making America work again.

Isn't this what Bush and his lackeys did for 8 years? Inherited a surplus of almost 1$ trillion which translated to almost negative 2$ trillion on his last week in office?

Wake up. Most politicians are the same, camillion colors. There are very few exceptions whether they are Reps, Dems, or Independents!!!

Give Obama a break. He has only been in office for a month since inheriting this quagmire left for him by his predecessor.

Yeah really, if anyone should be disappointed in Obama then it should be Obama!

so what nation does Holder live in? i think he is the real coward. I am half white, half black, half arab, half russian, half portuguese, and I have never met or heard of anyone caring what color someone his. so apparently Holder is the real coward.

The point-of-view here is disturbingly close to Fox News. I don't care what the RNC thinks. We voted them out. Let that party of crooks not be remembered.

The RNC sure seems worried that Obama might be successful. They are acting like children on time out throwing a fit. Too bad they weren't so critical of Bush.

Woow, look who's calling the kettle black!! Please the RNC has no businees criticizing anyone, may I remind everyone that the worst president ever was a Republican!!!!

Of course the RNC would do that. Do they ever go back and look at the wastefull spending they did the last eight years or the NON transparent way they did things. Always so quick to judge but easy to forget about their own house and why we are where we are today.

Boohoo. Cry me a river. George Bush was disappointing for 8 YEARS!! Actually, that word doesn't quite describe it.

Hmmm. Failed bipartisanship. Perhaps the Republicans should have have a more concerted effort to reach a compromise instead of simply saying "more tax cuts, less spending".

Why don't they stop complaining (especially John Boehner and Eric Cantor) and try to do something constructive. Now there's an idea!

No solutions, just criticism...typical. How about getting off your butts and offering something besides roadblocks.

Very Disapointing!!! No hope or change, just business as usual...

Response to RNC:
Republicans last 8 years has been marked by wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics – a mountain of debt, loss of 2 million jobs and 2 inconclusive warst which cost $ 800 billion. Need to know more?

Yes, spare me! I think Obama is doing quite well trying to clean up 8 years of Republican mess.

Coming from a group with absolutely no credibility, this isn't news. I think the election spoke loudly about giving the RNC and the Republican ideology a verdict that is more than "disappointing." How about FAILURE!!

Blah! Blah! Blah!...Republicans are very stale and past tense lol

What do you expect from the rethuglicans. The are praying Obama fails which means they are praying that Americans suffer more so that they can get back in power. I hope Americans have learned a permanent lesson over the last 8 years of letting these criminals and elitist have power. Note to the rethuglicans: It is going to take a lot longet than one month to fix the mess you morons left this country in, so shut up and sit back and let people who ruly care about this country clean up your mess.

The party of Vitter(prostitutes, Foley(boys), Greg(bathrooms), Cheney(drunk shootings, Limbaugh(drugs and all the good times he can find in a pill) should spend more time repenting for thier extracuricullum activities then worrying about how long its taking to clean up their crap.

Perhaps the GOP would like to address the reason why we need a Stimulus Package in the first place?!

Sure they would – it's Clinton's fault, right?!

What's truly disappointing is the way they spout if you're not with us, you're against us when we criticized their Iraq Plan, but for them to not cooperate in fixing the eceonomic problems is very partisan?!?!?!?!

The RNC would have said the same thing if our president had been Jesus Christ himself. As long as our Commander in Chief isn't a Republican, they'll continue to try and and tear them down.

I think the RNC should lie low for awhile, we are just coming out of what is perhaps the worst 8 yrs in the US history presided over by the RNC (both Executive (8) and Congress (6)). I don't think they have the moral standing to judge someone after only 1 month. What I see happened in congress is a party determined not to support the new president no matter the concession he makes. What the RNC needs is a time for soul searching, take a break for maybe 6months to 1yr and then come talk to America. For now we have a RNC mess to clear up.

It's not surprising the RNC veiws it as disappointing with his broken words. It would be surprising if Dems held him as accountable for his words. Obama purposely raised high hopes and has made excessive excuses on the deliveries of those promises. If Obama knew he could not delivery on what he promised, how is he different than a con artist? During the campaign, Obama told us what we could say and think. I guess he thinks we should still be the obedient followers. I still say Obama speaks a lot without saying a lot and now does even less. (Doing anything is not the same as fixing the problem.) There is no honor in that.

Hoot and Holler if you actually care with the RNC think?

*crickets*

Did we expect anything positive to come out of the mouths of Repub's, whats their approval rating anyway?

OMG – the RNC thinks his first month has been "disappointing?" Gee, I can't imagine how'd they describe the last 8 years... anyway, all Americans who hear this crap will consider the source...

Obama is doing a great job. If it weren't for the GOP obstructionists in Congress whose only concern is making sure the top 1% in this country keep their tax cuts, the stim would have passed weeks ago, and public programs aimed at helping the poor and middle class would not have been cut.

And despite the RNC's "evaluation," all polling of opinions that REALLY matter (i.e., We The People) give him a solid approval rating hovering around 70.

It's a shame that CNN (and other "media" outlets) seem intent to only focus on inside beltway irrlevant pundits, and giving them a platform to continue to spew lies and bullsh*t and tout how it wasn't the last 8 years have nothing to do with the current economic mess, or how Reaganomics wasn't the catalyst that started this mess, or how the New Deal was a failure ...

I'm pretty sure that in the last 2 election cycles, most of America rejected those lies. Why CNN and other tradmed outlets continue to feel it necessary to give these blowhards a platform is one of the reasons I don't watch CNN anymore, and only rarely visit the web site (more to see if there's breaking news)...

The only ones listening to the RNC and the beltway pundits are themselves. The rest of the country has long since stopped listening.

What a joke this is, just more RNC spin to add to eight years of failure.

CNN THIS IS NOT NEW

The only thing the RNC is truly disappointed in is that they haven't succeeded in sabotaging the new Administration to the point that our new President's approval rating slips below 50%. The RNC has proven since January that it's primary interest is in remaining wholly political, not in doing what's right for the country at one of the worst times in our history.

Who cares what the RNC thinks? Certainly not me.

– Former Republican

Such hypocrisy among the GOP. Wanna talk about wasteful spending? Let's talk about the $18 billion (of the orig $350 billion) that went to bonuses after the Republican administration's (Bush) Sec of Treasury lied to Congress about the money and wanting no oversight. I guess it's clear now why Paulson wanted no oversight.

Let's face it. For 8 years, the Reps said they 'could do it.' They could not or would not. The only thing they need to do now is to sit down, shut up and let the other side work.

Wasteful spending? Pleeeeez. These same folks weren't complaining when their man (Bush) increased the federal debt 72 percent.

Ditto RNC.

Guess what RNC? You have been dissapointing for years now. Besides with all the crap they tried to pull is it really a surprise they say this? PLEASE GIVE US REAL NEWS CNN.

At this point in the RNC public opinion this is really positive news for Obama.

Verdict on RNC for the Last 8 years: DISGUSTING.

Like the RNC would say he is doing great....The RNC is a bunch of sorry a.... fools – that help send the county further in a nose dive and now THEY HAVE NO NEW IDEAS AND IS MAD. JUST LIKE LITTLE KIDS...GROW UP!

Thats Funny. Bush was on vacation for his first month.

The RNC is a dying breed.

And how exactly does the Republican National Committee summarize the last 8 years of Republican leadership of this country?

Oh please...the "Grand Old Party" has been disappointing for 8 years. Obama needs more than a month to clean up the 8-year mess.

"Critics" disappointed in Obama? That makes it sound like they're impartial observers.

That's sloppy and sensationalist journalism CNN. Consider this "critic" disappointed in you.

Wow. I wonder what these folks said about Bush and Cheney? If they're this up in arms about Obama this early, we should have heard them ASKING FOR THE HEADS of Bush and Cheney years ago, right? Did they? I think not.

I would have to agree. Obama lied about lobbyist, Washington special interest, war, and now he's on a useless spending spree. No my disappointment doesnt make me a racist either! geesh

Did people really think Obama was for change? He mastered the slogan and propaganda to get elected, but its the same old same old for washington. Obama is a politician first and foremost. Everyone should be realizing right now they have been duped once again. Obama isn't doing what is right for this country. He is doing what is right for himself and for the Democratic party.

Utterly shocking,Republicans find the Democratic President's first month disappointing!!!! More Republican pouting, nothing to see here move along. It's his fault they didn't vote for the bill, because they are hoping it fails so they can gain seats in 2010 and the Presidency in 2012. Is that transparent enough? Whiners, just like wall street whining because bailout money is going to homeowners and not to line their pockets.

Is anyone suprised? I surely wasn't expecting any other verdict. If they had loved what he did the past month, then we might as well have voted for McCain.

Stupid ticker. Moving on...

Next up: Water is wet!

The GOP can spare us it's nonsense. They'd complain if Obama helped cure cancer. The whole country is waiting for the GOP to wake up and realize that their political gamesmanship is the single most transparent thing in DC. We need a viable two-party system, not this garbage they keep shoveling.

republicans are gleefully bragging in their districts about the money they will receive from the stimulous bill that they claim is wastefull and voted agianst
republicans are gleefully bragging that President Obama is not being bipartisan when they are the ones that turned their backs on him simply because he will not play by their partisan rules
republicans are happy to announce that just after one month in office President Obama is a failure because in that span of time he has not been able to clean up the 8 years of republican mess they left behind

That's their job and they have been doing a good job of it lately.

In other news, the sun came up in the east, the sky is blue, and rainbows don't end in pots of gold

What would one expect these guys to say ? After claiming Lil W. created the most robust American Economy(for Wall Street) & the greatest American Foreign Policy in history((9-11, Iraq, Afghanistan, World Respect) does one think the RNC would say that Obama was trying to chip our way out of the deep tunnel W. led us into ?

When will the RNC give us their verdict on the last 8 years? Or is it just Democrats that they do this for?

Please tell me if the past 3 WEEKS are as dissapointing as the past 8 YEARS? Wastefull spending? One example – shipping millions of dollars in cash on palletts to Iraq and no one knows where it went. Let's just start there? or should we go on?

I am so tired of these people criticizing Obama. What do they really expect? I didn't see any of them come up with a better idea to get us out of this mess that they created. All they want to do is complain, never offering solutions. He has tried to be bi-partisan but they refuse to work with him unless he completely and totally caves to their ridiculous demands. They should be happy he hasn't completely steamrolled them as he has the power and right to.

Here's a thought – quit being so argumentative, progress-blocking, and petty, and maybe he'd be willing to listen to your ideas.

This type of behavior was not exhibited by the Democrats in Bush's first month in office. I say give him a chance and try to be a little more bi-partisan yourselves instead of blocking everything that comes your way just because you are upset that your party is on the outs. You're making yourselves look foolish, childish, and outdated.

I am very surprised that the RNC has such an opinion of the President.

To go along with their thinking, the following are my recommendations for 2012.
1. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
2. Palin and Joe the Plumber
3. Steele and a one-armed midget

What a deep pool to talents! LOL.

OK first of all there are so many things wrong with this verdict I don't know where to begin
1) we wouldn't need the stimulus in the first place if Bush hadn't destroyed the economy
2) lack of transparency? pishahhh Bush was transparent? yeah he kept everything a secret and conducted wiretapping....if that's their deffinition of transparency than I guess Obama must be doing pretty well
3) We are already in debt by trillions...not billions....trillions thanks to the pointless and unnecessary violence of Iraq...so what's a few billion more to that...my kids and grandkids are already going to be paying off a debt for the rest of their lives.
4)Obama tried to be bipartisan...he threw parties, went to talk to these people, and all they did was shoot every idea down...they have just a NO rubber stamp....these GOP idiots just want to sit around, let Obama fail, while letting the country go down the tube....all so they can keep all their money and houses and get back in power again to cause us more misery....
I mean this in the nicest possible way...the GOP needs to PISS OFF!!!!!

Lets be clear on a few things. 1. The pork riddled initial stimulus package that Bush passed was supported by the Republican Congress ONLY after it was laden with wasteful spending. Are you kidding me? 2. Bipartisanship assumes that BOTH parties are willing to talk and agree, not just make demands and cry foul when the majority ignores yor unreasonable positions and requests. So far the GOP position has been akin to a heckler at a comedy club. Instead of enjoying the show you are now the topic of the jokes. 3. It's laughable to criticize his ethics. Lets not forget Republican administration and majority (for 6 years) whose great ethics policy condoned water boarding, outing CIA personnel, and a pre-emptive strike first defense policy amongst a laundry list of other things.

The Repudicans are "disappointing" at the very least. My parents always told me you are either a part of the problem or you're a part of the solution, they are a part of the PROBLEM! Stop pick apart the president and sit your a-- down and do some work that we pay you for. What a bunch of whinners and whimps.

Who cares what they think? Unless he had followed the dictates of the Republican platform, they would be disappointed with him. This is not news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why dont people stop judging his every move and give him a chance to do something it took years to get are country in such a bad state and it seems like people think obama is gonna be able to fix it over nite WAKE UP PEOPLE everyone needs to help the republican committee needs to get off there a-– n help instead of blaming someone they never wanted in office in the first place thank you

I am so sick of the RNC I could puke.

"Obama's first month has been marked by wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics."

This stands in sharp contrast to the past eight years of controlled spending, extensive bipartisanship, and ethics beyond reproach. Please!

Why are we surprised by this? Republicans were open to compromise IF the President was willing to concede on a few provisions. The President has other plans. The President is frankly exercising excellent PR within his administration by giving the impression that he is willing to work across the aisle when in fact, he had absolutely no intentions to concede anything within the stimulus package.

What do you expect from an inexperienced President. Once the lefties come down off their high they will realize the disasterous direction this administration is taking our beloved country. May God forgive us and may the people of this country pray for this President.

OMG – the RNC thinks his first month has been "disappointing?" Gee, I can't imagine how'd they describe the last 8 years...

Obama is doing a great job. If it weren't for the GOP obstructionists in Congress whose only concern is making sure the top 1% in this country keep their tax cuts, the stim would have passed weeks ago, and public programs aimed at helping the poor and middle class would not have been cut.

And despite the RNC's "evaluation," all polling of opinions that REALLY matter (i.e., We The People) give him a solid approval rating hovering around 70.

It's a shame that CNN (and other "media" outlets) seem intent to only focus on inside beltway irrlevant pundits, and giving them a platform to continue to spew lies and bullsh*t and tout how it wasn't the last 8 years have nothing to do with the current economic mess, or how Reaganomics wasn't the catalyst that started this mess, or how the New Deal was a failure ...

I'm pretty sure that in the last 2 election cycles, most of America rejected those lies. Why CNN and other tradmed outlets continue to feel it necessary to give these blowhards a platform is one of the reasons I don't watch CNN anymore, and only rarely visit the web site (more to see if there's breaking news)...

The only ones listening to the RNC and the beltway pundits are themselves. The rest of the country has long since stopped listening.

I interviewed Gomer Pyle about the fact that the Republican National Committee and his comment was: "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"

At this point, I'd feel better if their reaction was one of absolute horror. That they are only "disappointed" tells me that Obama is being too deferential to the party that Lost The Election Big Time After Screwing Over The Country For Eight Years.

I want to hear screams of anguish from the RNC. I want to hear shirts rending and heads banging against walls. "Disappointing?" How...disappointing.

I am an Obama supporter, but I don't think his first month has been as successful as it could have been. I think Nancy Pelosi and her gang of clowns are getting in his way too much. However, I'm not a member of the party who decisively lost the election and is left in shambles without a clear direction or leader. This is sour grapes. The Democrats are just are implicit in the bipartisanship failure of the stimulus, but it seems that the Republican tactic right now is to do whatever they can to make sure Obama fails-even if it means our country fails along with him. For a party that prides itself on being patriotic, they sure aren't acting like it.

Here's a thought. Why don't we put aside this partisan bullshit and any vengeful interests and just figure out a way out of this mess instead of pointing fingers. The blame game might be fun and might be a tactic for getting the right back in the majority, but it's not going to fix the economy.

My verdict for the RNC is irrelevant!!!

And California is west of Kansas, so what is the point?

"wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics?" Is the RNC talking about the new guy or the one that just left?

how about those better solutions, guys?

too busy fine-tuning that new hippity hop image?

With the Republicans opinions about the President and a dollar, you can buy a cup of coffee. That is how much their opinions are worth. They should change the name of their party to the "sours grapes" or the "Obstructionist Party". I can't believe that the very ones responsible for a huge portion of this countrys problems have the brass you-know-whats to say the things they say. I would love to see those jerks put in the position of having no job, no healthcare, in jeopardy of losing their homes and wondering how they would feed their families for a couple of months. Its easy to obstruct and criticize when you don't have to worry about the above issues.

What would one expect from the RNC? obama can't correct in one month what the Repubs did in 8 years. RNC is the party of negativity. Who would want to wear the lable of Republican other than those that are already committed to it.

I just wanted to thank the RNC for making my day. I needed a good laugh–especially the one about President Obama being a disappointment in regard to bipartisanship. Keep the jokes coming RNC!

This from the deadbeat Repug's, who followed Bush and his ideas until this country is on the brink of going bankrupt. Yet the Repug's sit and throw stones after they did nothing to help the American people. Their idea is trickle down, more tax cuts for the wealthy. Make sure the autoworkers take a pay cut but yell socialism when Obama sets a pay scale for the CEO's.
Repug's attitude is do as much damage to the new President as possible and maybe the American People will forget who really caused the mess this country is in. Guess what? Some of us will never let that happen.

The party out of power always has criticism for the party in power. When it was the other way around, the Democrats said the same thing. The fact is the President is only one person, and bipartisanship only works if BOTH sides are willing to work together. The Republicans would only have supported the stimulus bill if they wrote it, got everything they wanted, and the Democrats gave into their every demand. That's not to say I don't think the bill is a great bill. There was definitely room for improvement. But the Republicans spent all the time complaining, and only THREE had the guts to stand up and actually work toward a resolution. All talk, no action!

W's whole 8 years was dissappointing.

I'm a registered republican voted democrat in the past election because of the failures in the past eight years. If the RNC keep this nonsense up, I will keep on voting for the Democrats.

//marked by wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics//

This quote could be used to describe the previous EVIL Regime. As far as Bipartisanship,I think these know nothings forgot their own "MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY" philosophy they embraced over the last 8 years.There is a reason this evil party has lost big in the last two elections.

Hey, the new GOP mantra is: If you've got no NEW Ideas, obstruct and criticizite..etc. OR What would Jesus do?

Face it the GOP is now a marginalized and regional party of Racists, Rubes,Bible Banging Inbreds and Old fat White Guys.

The Republicans are pathetic losers. The are blaming the president for their decision not to cooperate with him on any issue which would make the lives of the American people better.

What do they think? That the American people are fools and cannot see their self-destructive strategy?

AND? So, what's new? Given the fact that we have been disappointed for years and years with the repubs, i would say this is a compliment for Prez O . Their irrelevance shows daily with all their 'no' stance,fake rages' rantings ,'obstruction and opposition'!
There is not much to be expected from them than 'more of the same'.

It's hard to work with someone that acts like a 2-year old that only says "NO!" Bipartisanship will only occur if and only if the GOP can get out of it's "NO" phase.

I do think Obama isn't taking matters seriously. As a Democrate, I have grown increasingly frustrated with his recent policies, including the stimulus bill. He campaigned so hard that his economic policies would be better but I only find his policies inferior. I think it's time for him to rally both parties in Congress to work together and this includes him as well. So far, he's been too concerned about putting on the makeup to appear on camera than to address America's issues.

Conservative leaders in America have been a big disappointment. They are working on the next election, not on America's problems. What have they brought to the table since our new president was sworn in? Nothing but opposition, delay, personal attacks, obstruction, filibusters, preposterous exaggeration of small features of the stimulus bill, no suggestions for improvement, and nothing positive. They recommend doing nothing, Herbert Hoover style, to solve the nation's economic problems. They have recently discovered that America has a national debt after a long case of economic amnesia, but they still can't remember that 75% of it was run up during the Reagan, Bush, and Bush years.

They don't remember sending troops to Afghanistan or Iraq. They don't remember questioning the patriotism of those who criticized the President and his cabinet bungled and botched both military operations.

They don't remember campaigning for Bush twice and urging us all to vote for him. They claim no responsibility for the legislation and budgets that passed when they controlled Congress and the White House.

Now they are all born-again Goldwater Conservatives, sort of like hookers who have become nuns. They now pretend that they never walked the streets, much less rolled a john.

They should be, along with every other American. People its time to wake up and see where this man is taking our country to. SOCIALISM!
I dont want to pay for my loser neibhors mortgage because they cant. This in only the begining.

Wow, there's a shocker.

And why is this news?

The RNC should give up their pay checks to the homeless until their terms are due to show good faith. McCain should open five of his eight homes up to the people of his district since he has one of the worst records.

surprise surprise.

Headline: "REPUBLICANS DON'T AGREE WITH DEMOCRATS! "

If the Republicans can't support a President who is trying to turn things around for everyone, I think they can kiss their party good-bye. Americans want both parties to support this effort, for the good of the country.

Honestly, do we expect them to say anything different?

For the party that is in shambles, has no vision nor leadership and is responsible for single-handedly taking our nation down a path of ruin, both domestically and overseas, the best advice would be to keep its collective mouths shut. Either lead, follow or get out of the way. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves for their stance on the stimulus package and for deciding to undermine our new president at every turn. Not surprising but certainly infuriating. The leadership of this party during the past eight years continually used an old fear tactic–calling into question the patriotism of anyone who voiced an opposing opinion to their views. Well, how patriotic is it to wish failure on a new administration when our country is in its worst crisis since the Great Depression? The good news: this party will wander in the political desert for the next 40 years!

no transparancy????????/ The friggin' bill is online for ALL to read. Sorry RNC...he hasn't parted the water in 30 days from the flood you created.

Obama sincerely made efforts to gain republican support for this initiative, to no avail. They wanted to continue with failed policies of the last 8, 10, 20+ years. They made the American people further aware of the fact that the repubs are all about ideology and not about ideas.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Like I care what the republican party thinks! I do believe that is the general consensus by the way the election went.
Just the same rhetoric McCain/Palin spread when campaigning?Continuation of the Bush/Cheney mentality! Which by the way is the reason there party failed to win again.
Truthfully I as a democrat love there continuation of a negative attitude and unwillingness to work together with this administration.It shows america there true colors as if the last 8 years didn't!Will also assure us of another win in 2012!
Can you imagine the path we would be taking had the election went the other way?God forbid!

RNC , You disappointed us for the last 8 years. Get a life!!!!

The RNC has set their position as the Monday Morning QB. Put up or shut up. Stop being obstructionists and help get our country back on track!

Really CNN, can't you do better than this. If the RNC finds him disappointing, that means he's doing his job since the American people fired the GOP in the 2008 election, in case they didn't notice.

The RNC is a joke. Dismantle start over.

My verdict of Republicans the last year or more is 'more than disappointing'. Obama has done an incredible job of trying to stabilize the economy, create jobs and support the poor and middle class. Republicans have done nothing more than spread hate, make a mockery of Obama and this administration and Americans in general.

My verdict of Republicans the last month? We're not allowed to use the kind of words it takes to describe them on this blog. I'll say children and school yard bullies and see if that passes.

The Republicans need to take a back seat and SHUT UP! Did they once say that Bush was "Disappointing" within his first 100 days? NO! Although he became President through falsified votes, and everybody knows it! He was NEVER qualified to be President and his 8 years clearly demonstrated it! Give me a break!! President Obama is for the people not for the White House-Thank God! They DON'T WANT TO SEE HIM SUCCEED! Bottom line! The Republicans wanted to sit back and watch America go under while they live comfortably off of their unearned salaries. How jacked up is that! So please CNN can we put the more positive stuff out on our newly elected President? Thank you.

who cares for RNC.

What do they know the Republican lawmakers live in their own
world.If you listen to their comments during a news conference
then listen to the Democrats talk at their news conference on the
same subject you would think you were listening to two countries.
They made the choice to say no,no,no, to President Obama because
they wanted to show Obama that they stand together.So disappoint-
ment is their choice.The Republicans need to grow up.

I am so sick of the GOP, and I'm not even a Democrat. Does anyone really even care or surprised by what they think? It's easy to criticize, but I haven't heard any real solutions from them except the failed policies that got us into this mess, along with our deficits.

There's a real surprise, the GOP calling a Democrat "disappointing,." Why isn't the RNC coming up with any solutions to the nations current problems????? We need help you guys, not finger pointing. The RNC's finger pointing act is disappointing.

Does it say anything about their own distructive behavior? I doubt it. He who casts the first stone.......

And this month's verdict for the GOP – EXTREMELY disappointing! This Country is on the edge of Depression, and THEY are the ones to blame for refusing to work on a successful plan. The GOP will take this Country down with them if we continue to listen to their fruitless rhetoric. What we've been doing up to this point has not worked!!

forget the RNC

I agree with the RNC that the start has been extremely disappointing.
What scares me is he doesn't seem to know what to do so he's trying anything hoping it will work rather than seriously coming up with solutions. He has not been bipartisen and says just because the republicans disagree it's politics as usual. Maybe his ideas are just plain bad. Also, the man who was supposed to be great at bringing the country together has done the exact opposite and it is him and especially is his followers. Nothing worse than a boastful winner to allienate the other side and eventually lead to your downfall.

With all that said, I pray everynight that I am wrong. I pray everynight that I have to eat crow big time. I pray every night that I have to wallow in my job, increase value of my home, increase value of my investments, etc.

I am so ready for a big fat plate of "I was wrong", so let's hope I get it.

Surely the republicans vote Obama's progress as disappointing – what else would you expect? Would Grandpa McCain have made more progress? I doubt it. It's a difficult job in difficult times – it does not matter who is in the hot seat. After all, the republicans are partially to blame for the situation we are in and refuse to be team players and play nice. Obama appears to be a very open minded. When it comes to the stuimulus bill, if the republicans had such a negative opinion, rather than complain, they should not have delayed and presented their own original ideas.

Is this supposed to be surprising in some way? No matter what Obama does, the RNC will hate him. They don't want to be bipartisan, they just want to run things, so as long as Obama is in office hey will hate him. Pretty simple.

The RNC doesn't get it (surprise, surprise). Bipartisanship was attempted by Democrats in general and President Obama in particular, and ultimately rejected by Republicans because of irreconcilable differences.

Of course, this is really just a drum-beater for die-hard Republicans that won't convince any objective person to have a positive opinion of the GOP.. but it's good for fundraising, I suspect.

He beat the tar out of them in November...Do you think they would be pleased?

While I'm disappointed with congressional Democrats and their inability to get past the partisan nonsense which continues to exist, the Republicans are clearly more destructive. When will Congress, both parties, get off of their 'collective' butts and start seriously presenting an agenda for the people of the USA. No ONE party is without blame in this... but enough of the 'tax cut' mantra of the minority party, and the credit grabbing personas of Pelosi and Reid.

Let’s get busy promoting the strength which exists and stop beating the drum of failure... negativity breads negativity.

I would not expect anything less from the Republicans.

Grog in Ohio gives verdict on Republicans for the past 8 years: Catastrophic failure.

Why does this seems surprising from the RNC? I guess they have short-term memory. Who created this mes????? It took the Republicans eight years to create this mess and they're only upset because they could've had another four to completely destroy our economy.

It would have been politically beneficial for RNC to actually commend the president, just once. Once again, its a lost opportunity. It is so apparent that President Obama has had several significant victories, and for the RNC to say he has been a 'disappointment', its a colossal loss of face and credibility.

Well RNC if you had brought up new ideas other that the tax cuts which have been given to the top 1% of the US then something would have shown up. If you want to take this out on the back of the labor unions why not start at the top. Don't you think the people at the top would take lets say a 50% pay cut that this would help the little guys.

Lets talk tariffs. Implement those now. How about taxes on income over 250K. Lets say about 80%. Would that not encourage a little reinvestment in the economy.

Their entire party is disappointing...................................

Surprise, surprise.

This should not be a surprise. Everybody knew he would bring ridiculous spending, a strong liberal mentality, and heavy interest group ties. More of the SAME. What a scam on America.

fox news is full of it,fox news needs to stop saying their fair in balanced,because not once did they mention sarah palin not paying her taxes,but when some people in obamas cabinet had problems with taxes fox news ran on it 24/7,in not once did they mention the cartoon in the new york post,what a bunch of hypocrats.

I like what Obama represents to most people, I just don't like the politics he is playing.
The RNC is right there is no bipartisanship, Government is growing daily, and the fine print is beginning to show already.
Obama says he's not going to support the fairness doctrine on one hand, and on the other he's supporting anything else that's like the fairness doctrine. He says he's not going to take our guns from us, but there is legislation that he supports that would make it hard for anyone to own firearms (Look it up in Peoria Ill.)
He is going to force feed global warming into the science community even though there are many who have evidence against it. (Just ask the ones that have had government grants, or other forms of aid taken from them, or denied for one reason or another)
Then there are Union issues. Look these things up people.
Stop drinking the kool aid people, and switch back to the clear water, of reason.
These are not race issues, or party issues, these are everyday in your face, change your life issues.

As a citizen, I would like to criticize the RNC and party for running the country into the ground the last 8 years. Thanks a lot. If I were you, I would keep my mouth shut.

Are you kidding me? "wasteful spending, failed bipartisanship, and questionable ethics". Those 30 days is still better than 8 long years.

Get used to it, folks; the Republicans will continue trying to keep their reputation as "control freaks" forever. They sat there like spoiled brats when Obama tried to get them to participate (except for three). They are hoping if they continue to whine, badger and criticize that it will rub off on all the American citizens, and they will be raising hell in the streets. Odd that we didn't hear so much whining and pouting when they grabbed their pens to sign on to Bush's $700 billion bailout "with no strings attached." Then they saluted. Even Newt Gingrich commented on one of the news shows that Hank Paulson should resign for requiring the "no strings attached" and hurry, hurry. Think about it....Newt Gingrich of all people critizing one of his own!! And now it seems the Repubs have had a memory loss about Bush's 700 billion bailout, and I doubt many of them can say the money was spent wisely, unless, of course they feel large bonuses and extravagant parties, etc. is wise spending of taxpayer's money. What a bunch of turkeys!!!

The thing I find hilarious is that at the same time when Bush took office he was still on vacation. Obama has put his hand out there and asked for help from the RNC but they are very typical. They want it their way or the highway. They want things to be the way they were that got us in this mess. It would be no advantage politically for the RNC to say Obama is doing a good job. The RNC saying Obama is doing a bad job is like an Boulemic person telling a healthy person how to eat.

Does anyone expect other from the clueless GOP. This is a political party so void of answers and direction that it thinks that if they put a black face out there at every opportunity as a spokesman that it will somehow change their fortune. That is their answer to Barack Obama the problem is that none of those people are Barack Obama and they don't have a clue as to how to deal with him so they will do their best to obstruct him. They will learn the next election that the citizens are tired of that political bull........!

Title again is COMPLETELY misleading...

Title: Obama is "disappointing", says critics

Of course the "critic" is the Republican National Committee.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say RNC says Obama is disappointing.

Tabloids all of you.

The republican party is a bunch of village idiots. President Obama has been in office just one month now. He has accomplished more than the prior village idiot in one month than the prior village idiot did the whole time in office. The republican party is just grasping for straws because most of them will loose their jobs in less than two years. Not that I have any sympathy for them. All they have to put in front of the people is a bunch of old dried up men and women that need face lifts bad and tummy tucks also. Signed a prior republican Jim Hall Kansas City Missouri.

Who I am very disappointed in is the RNC. They seem to think that it is okay to let America go down. The have no substantive ideas to help get us out of this mess and all they can do is add negative input to every idea. They are not working to help save America from this economic meltdown, in fact I get the distinct feeling they would rather see us fail then see a Democratice President succeed.

This may be the real death of the Republican party.

If I were the President I would take this assesment from the RNC as a indicator that I am doing a good job... If the Republicans are disappointed , the President is on the right track. It is also a joke to hear the RNC complain about lack of bipartisanship, when they declared a few weeks ago that "bipartisanship is over rated".
The biggest failure this past month is the "crap"coming out of the mouh of the Chairman of the RNC.

Thats a understatement!

Really?
This, from "the stewards" of the economy for the past 8-years who have by their own actions – or lack of – have put us in this economic mess are "disappointed" after only 31 days?

Imagine that – who couldn't see this bit of hypocrisy coming?

Unless you want to be proactive in fixing this mess you can all just sit down and and pour yourselves a nice big cup of STFU!

Come back in 8-years after the Dem's have had equal time to clean up the enormous pile of feces you have left behind for us and we get our nation back on track?

Sound fair? if not, too bad, life sucks – get a helmet!

I voted for Mr. Obama, but now I wish I wouldn't have based on the new bail outs. I understand he is trying to help the country, but all he is doing is helping Washington Politicians.

8 Billion for a rail line??? Are You Joking! I work 2 full time jobs to pay my mortgage and now I'm going to have to bail out idiots that got a 3 or 5 year arm and should never have bought a $500k house in the first place. I don't care if it hurts my property value if they all go under, as I have no plans to move in the next 5 years. I have several friends that make less money than I do, but yet they bought new cars, 100% loans on houses they could never afford, etc.

One of my friends missed payments on purpose, so he could do a short sell on his house and now we are going to have to foot the bill for folks like this. It is insane and I hope our President that I had so much hope for will realize this is a bad plan and change it.

Obama is still my man, but he needs to step up and shut Peolsi and Reid up and do the right things, or they will ruin his presidency.

Car bail out: How does this help people in Oregon: We do not have sales tax or excise tax, so I guess no one will be buying new cars in Oregon.

One last comment: No one in the media is saying what it cost for us to fly the Senator in from Ohio and back to sign the bill. Was it really necessary considering that the President didn't sign the bill for 4 days after that. I know that had to cost well over 50k to bring him in and back. Another hit for tax payers!

I still believe he has the opportunity to be the best President in history, but he needs to take control and not the nut jobs Pelosi and Reid.

And what else would you expect the RNC to say? They lost!

Now isn't that the kettle called the pot black?
I'm 52 years old and I know one thing, it has been both of the major parties that have been in the leadership of my country in my lifetime. There is plenty of blame and finger pointing for both the Dems and the GOP to go around. And I know life is not suppose to be easy, but this leadership has been nothing but a burden in my pursuit of happiness.
This nation's experiment in democracy has been a dismal failure. We need to have a return of this great nation to what it was designed to be by the founding fathers a Republic, not a democracy, no more Government rule by bullies.

Republicans think that Obama has been disappointing? Wait until they hear what the American public has to say about them! They have nothing constructive to add to the legislative process, and have basically one reply to everything proposed: "no."

The RNC is disappointed in Obama. This is news? Please spare me!

Oh boy, what a surprise from the Grand Opposition Party that is just trying to block his proposals for political reasons and hopes they can fool enough people into thinking the other side is the problem. Republicans don't understand that everyone is tired of their partisan politics. This is really just pathetic and unfortunately nothing new from them. This is why they lost and will continue to lose.

How dare the RNC make and negative comments about a President that is so people orientated. Our President really cares about the people and this country. We didn't see the past President reach out to any common Americans. Did you see him embrace the common family? I don't think so....It's not the President fault if who he pick for an office have some minor issues as we have had. Get over it and stopping looking for excuses..............The people are hurting and we need the help of our President to do what he do......That is make it happen for the people.

Our President is doing a great job................

The RNC has expanded McCain's claim, " it is not the way I would have done it" into their claim, "it is not the way we would have done it."

With both of these c laims the American people have much to be thankful for. Heaven forbid how they would have done it.

Oh Dear. Don't criticize his failures, that's racist.

This just in;

Media Organization owned by, and pandering to, filthy rich right wing white guys, continues it's surreptitious support of the Facist Republican party program to destroy America's economy for political gain. Methods of support include posting new-worthless, extremely superficial stories on their political ticker.......

The Republicans are bunch of loosers.

Grow up, you LOST the election. It is time to move on and stop acting like a bunch of 2 year olds.

President Obama failed to get many Republican votes because the Republican party is an obstructionist band of ideologues who would rather let the economy go down the drain than see Obama succeed. It is time for the Republicans to reform or go the way of the dinosaur.

When is someone going to investigate Chris Dodd for the financial mess that we are in. He is, after all, head of the banking commision and should have been able to warn us a long time ago and prevented the mess we are in.

Scumbags!! WHO has not been "bipartisan"?! President Obama is at least TRYING to do something to help the country, instead of running it in the ground like you greed heads. I disagree with him on one thing: no bipartisanship! Throw ALL of you Republican bums out! You have come close to ruining our country...

Put up or shut up RNC. I hope we get 70-90 Democrats in the senate by 2012. I am so tired of the obstructionist ways of the Republican party their hate/ fear . They are a do nothing party.

It is ironic that the RNC would characterize President Obama's first thirty day as disappointing given what they did to our country over the past eight years. The RNC should keep its mouth shut and hope that their leaders – namely Bush and Cheney – aren't charged with crimes against humanity for wrongfully taking our country to war against a nation that posed no serious threat to us.