yep.

thinks he's in a position to "demand" a damned thing!

Taxes are going up regardless. You already agreed to that.

he never 'left port'

It would avoid a long drawn out battle and repub TV time. Later the repubs will have to explain themselves to the american people why the will not lower their taxes. They behave as if they did not get their asses whipped a few weeks ago.

Lift the earnings cap and boom, it's all reformed, as POTUS mentioned during the 2008 campaign, so it has ocurred to him.

won't affect the vast majority of us one whit.

Truly. We'd scare the pee out of them if we just kept saying no and went over.