"[Boehner and Republicans] said the proposal was modeled after suggestions that Erskine Bowles made to a congressional committee a year earlier. ...But Bowles released his own statement distancing himself from the GOP offer, which he said “does not represent the Simpson-Bowles plan, nor is it the Bowles plan.”Boehner will get serious once he realizes he can't win. The vast majority know who's fighting for them.