OK, the Dems do a reverse. They will get hammered again in 2012. They are not going to get away with it without getting badly stomped.
The Dims have 22 Senators up for elections in 2012. I bet they don't have the guts to play lemmings again as the did the last 2 years. When and need be in January, the Repub House passes the law to keep the tax rates in place, the Dim senators will not have the intestinal fortitude. They'll whine like 5 year old girls but will pass the Bush tax cuts. Game set match.
From your lips to God's ears. :>)
I think, though, that the Dems believe in the power of the media to brainwash the people given a 2 year period in which to do it.
They will believe that this past November was an exception.