Another fiscal cliff offer that's laughable

After calling President Obama's offer on how to stop going over the fiscal cliff laughable, Speaker of the House Boehner trotted out his offer and, in a show of realism, offered the same package that he had turned down in 2011. So how is this realism? Well, maybe it's not realism, but 20-20 hindsight. Speaker Boehner seems to have realized that the best deal the Tea Party was ever going to get is one they turned down in the middle of last year. But there was an election between then and now, and the Tea Party ideas got voted down. The GOP/Tea Party lost the presidential election, lost seats in the Senate and the House, and although  they kept control of the House, Democrats won more votes nationally than the GOP did. So after all that, they offer a plan that they themselves rejected but now want the President to sign. Now, that's what I call a laughable offer.