The Democrats are being stupid here, I think that it's important to get these passed.

The political reason is, it just shows that the Republicans only care about the rich and don't actually care about fiscal responsibility. These tax cuts just add to the deficit and they won't create jobs, but in order to get anything else done it's important that they pass.

I think that the Democrats cannot follow in the GOP's footsteps of being the party of No, I don't think that politically it would be the right thing for them to do. They need to compromise with the GOP and get their agenda passed along with some things that the right wants.