What color is the sky on your planet?
Boner should have started negotiations with an offer to cut spending by $2 Trillion next year and making the Bush tax cuts permanent and cutting White House funding by 70%. Then start haggling from there. Leverage comes from having a big stick, something Weepy Boner doesn’t.
That would accomplished nothing. Obama would have been happy with no deal at all, higher taxes for everybody, and the Pubs would get the blame. Obama was holding all the cards, the pubs were negotiating from a position of weakness, and everyone knew it. I'm actually surprised they got as good a deal as they did.