Republicans are also idiots for passing tax cuts with expiration dates.
Better there were no tax cuts?
Sorry if I'm not the first to mention that the Democrats took control of the Senate with the defection of Jeffords in 2001 and they would only let the tax cuts pass if they had an expiration date.
Since then the Reps never had 60 vote filibuster proof control of the Senate agenda and couldn't bring up making the tax cuts permanent because the Dems blocked it. The Reps tried.