President Obama is not resting after his reelection victory last Tuesday. Instead he is planning an aggressive pubic campaign to build support for higher taxes on the rich. This week he will meet with labor leaders on Tuesday and business leaders on Wednesday before traveling outside Washington in the coming weeks for more public campaign-like events.

“You want to avoid getting sucked into the Beltway inside-baseball games,” Joel Johnson, a former adviser in the Clinton White House told The New York Times. “You can still work toward solutions, but make sure you get out of Washington while you are doing that.”

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