Two Ways Out of the Stalemate

First Read: “So with the Oct. 17 date approaching, there are two paths out of this: 1) the Senate comes to the rescue, or 2) House Speaker Boehner, at the very last minute before, puts a clean CR and a clean debt-ceiling extension on the House floor, allowing Democrats and a minority of Republicans to pass them. That House deal would only be for about a month, if that. Those are the two ways out pre-Oct. 17.”

Greg Sargent: “If Republicans refuse to budge off their insistence on lower spending levels, Dems should call their bluff by demanding a permanent disabling of the debt limit as an extortion tool as part of any short-term compromise.”