That was House Speaker John Boehner's summation of
the fiscal cliff negotiations as of this time last week, in an interview on Fox
News Sunday.
Boehner said that plan proposed by President Obama
and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to avoid the fiscal cliff, which included
an end to Congress's control of the debt ceiling limit along with $1.6 trillion
in new revenue, was "a non-serious proposal;" particularly because,
as Boehner portrayed it, the proposal contained federal spending that
outweighed its proposed budget cuts.
