McConnell on Face the Nation

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appeared on CBS' Face The Nation Sunday morning



He talked about the possible rescinding of the Bush tax cuts:

Let me make sure everybody understands what were talking about here: These aren't tax cuts, these are tax increases—tax increases in the middle of a recession.

We don't think raising taxes on small business is a good idea. You can't do what he's suggesting you might do without having a small business tax increase.”

“We can't negotiate it this morning but our view is don't raise taxes on small business. We would rather not do it at any time—in fact I've introduced the only bill that would make the current tax rates permanent—but certainly you wouldn't want to do it in the middle of an income slowdown.

He concluded with insightful comments about President Obama's "sales presentation" of the Democratic agenda.

I think the president believes that somehow he didn’t – his product was good but he just didn't sell it well. I think he's a good salesman. I think his problem was not his sales job. It was the product. The American people simply did not like what the president and this Congress were doing substantively.

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