This is welcome news: Obama says he’s not caving on tax cuts. Of all the misguided, backwards-thinking and revisionist propaganda floated during the last election cycle, the idea that permanently shifting a majority of the tax burden away from the richest 2% of the population to the shoulders of the middle class is the least defensible. The Republican party is not the party of the conservative; it’s the party of the rich and entitled, and their only aim is to take more and give less.

Update: check out the second link. I don’t live in that big gray circle at the bottom, do you? Didn’t think so.