Let's take a step back shall we? Boehner's plan roughly cuts $900bn over the course of ten years for an equivalent, but immediate increase in the debt ceiling. Do you realize that if all those cuts were made immediately, -this year- we would still be running a deficit for the year? So, at best case, he's talking about trimming a 10th of our current annual deficit. Do you also realize that the "down the road" cuts are non-binding because the current Congress can't pass legislation that ties the hands of subsequent ones.

So basically, what you have is $22bn of cuts in the 2012 budget, in return for a $900bn increase in the debt ceiling. Obama and Reid have called that "dead on arrival". You call him "antiamerican" for proposing it. Who's being unreasonable and unwilling to compromise? When it comes to cutting the deficit, Boehner's plan barely even registers yet the Democrats would have you think they want to throw grandma off a cliff.