John Boehner willing to raise taxes even more as long as we don't raise taxes

Pretty much sums up my reaction. Breakthrough!

House Speaker John Boehner privately told President Barack Obama that he's prepared to consider more than the $800 billion the GOP has already proposed in new tax revenues ' but only if the White House will back much deeper cuts to entitlement programs, according to several sources familiar with the talks.

Except:

Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, said: 'Speaker Boehner has always been and remains opposed to raising tax rates because raising tax rates costs jobs. He has said that publicly and privately.'

I guess by floating the idea that Boehner is open to more revenues than he's previously said is an attempt by his office to make him sound reasonable, but if you say that you'd be willing to support an even bigger tax increase as long as taxes don't go up, you don't sound reasonable'you sound crazy.