Rendell: Dems Were "Too Scared" to Hold Tax Vote
The Hill reports:
Democrats in Congress did not hold a vote on whether or not to extend the expiring Bush tax cuts because they were "too scared," Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) said this weekend.
The governor and former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman said that his party should have seized on public support for their plan: to let the cuts expire for upper-income earners but extend them for the middle-class.
“I think we were too scared," he said on Bloomberg's "Political Capital" program that airs throughout the weekend. "And I think we also downgrade the public's ability to make decisions based on somewhat intricate stuff."
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