Why would any democrat support this? The ones who have been voted out have nothing to lose. The leadership in the house and senate have spent the last two years spending us into bankruptcy. Their holy grail is the power of the tax code to punish those who produce and reward those who don’t.
This is a head fake by the dims to run out the clock.
Because they can once again play the class warfare game in 2012 when all the spineless GOPers will just roll over because they really don't speak out about what they supposedly stand for.
The 2 year extension is just setting up their campaign talking points for 2012. Whoever the GOP candidate is, they are going to have to change the conversation and propose something completely different.