"They're angry about the policy in the bill; the half-a-billion dollars in Medicare cuts, the half-a-billion dollars in new taxes, the higher premiums for people on the individual market, they're mad about that. They're also mad, correctly, about all the deals that were cut to get it out of the Senate; the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, the Gatorade."

McConnell says the public is upset with what he calls the deal-making now going on in the house side of the Congress.