With the dems, there is no such thing as a temporary tax hike. The dems want socialism, and right now the only way to stop them is to make them accept the fact that they have run out of other people's money. We can't change policy since we are not the party in power, however, we can stop being enablers (by drying up their revenue base).
It will be temporary when we win a landslide election next year and take the Senate. The democrats only hope is to successfully pin the economy on us right now thru the debt ceiling failure. If Obama and the dems own the economy in next years election, it will be a conservative landslide. I want the same thing you do, I think we have different views on the how to get there.