Boehner willing to vote for Obama's tax plan, which would raise taxes on wealthiest

The GOP's House leader will vote to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans. I didn't expect to hear Boehner ever say that:

"But aren't you kind of holding the tax cuts for the lower income people, the people making less than $250,000, hostage, so you can give those tax cuts to the upper brackets?" Schieffer asked. "There are a lot more people below those top brackets than are in . . . those upper brackets. Why wouldn't you want to do something for those folks?"

"I want to do something for all Americans who pay taxes," Boehner said.

"If the only option I have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, I'll vote for it. But I've been making the point now for months that we need to extend all the current rates for all Americans if we want to get our economy going again, and we want to get jobs in America."

"So you are saying you would vote for the middle class tax cuts, if that's all you can get done?" Schieffer asked.

"Bob, we don't know what the bill's going to say, alright? If the only option I have is to vote for those at $250,000 and below, of course I'm going to do that. But I'm going to do everything I can to fight to make sure that we extend the current tax rates for all Americans."

The NY Times headline reads: House G.O.P. Leader Signals He’s Open to Obama Tax Cut

Boehner is going to be doing backflips to get out of this one. I don't think the House GOPers are going to like it. This could mean "the Tan" won't be Speaker. Seriously. This puts Boehner to the left of many Democrats.