In fact, if the following report is accurate, and unless Boehner was intentionally offering up the most unrealistic proposal he could think of, they’re straight up, whacked-out, ridiculously tone deaf, especially in light of all the polls:

Washington (CNN) – One of the reasons Tuesday night’s conversation between President Barack Obama and John Boehner did not go well was because the GOP House speaker sent the White House a fiscal cliff proposal calling for a permanent extension of Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including for incomes in the top 2%, a Democratic source said Wednesday.