The President has finally stepped up to deal with his personal pushback deficit by promising to veto any bill that cuts Social Security and Medicare without raising taxes on “millionaires and billionaires.”

Until now, the White House has been threat-free as the Boehner-McConnell gang holds the government hostage and sends all the ransom notes. The turnaround is long overdue. Now, let the Republican candidate clowns show voters exactly how going back to pre-George W. Bush tax rates will cripple “job creators.”

At the very least, Barack Obama has picked up the “class warfare” gauntlet and thrown it back into the GOP’s face.

“Warren Buffett’s secretary,” he said today, “shouldn’t pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett…It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million…”

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