Roll Call has the details.

New York Times: “President Obama praised the Senate’s progress, but issued a blunt warning to lawmakers about the possibility that the deal could yet founder in the House.”

A Senate Democratic aide tells Greg Sargent that they want the debt ceiling lifted for about 9 months — until early summer — with the idea being that the closer to the 2014 elections we get, the harder it will be for Republicans to stage another debt ceiling hostage crisis.”

Said the aide: “The effect of this fight has been to destroy the Republican brand and put their 2014 candidates behind the eight ball. We are not trying to bait them into another fight. We’d rather put it past the election. But it’s really up to them. If they want to recommit political suicide a few months before an election, that’s going to be their choice. We’re going to make sure that if this happens it has real consequences for them.”

A new ABC News-Washington Post poll finds a new high of 74% of Americans disapprove of the way the Republicans in Congress are handling Washington’s budget crisis, up significantly in the past two weeks and far exceeding disapproval of both President Obama and congressional Democrats on the issue.

“Top Senate leaders said they were within striking distance of a deal to sidestep a looming debt crisis and reopen the government two weeks after a partisan deadlock forced it to shutter,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Senators signaled a bipartisan resolution could come as soon as Monday afternoon, when top congressional leaders are scheduled to meet with President Obama.”

Politico reports the deal would “reopen the government until Jan. 15 and raise the national debt limit until Feb. 15. Several people familiar with the matter expected that a deal could be announced Monday, though its prospects in the GOP-led House are far from certain.”

“The Republicans’ decision to alter an obscure procedural rule has enraged Democrats and given them evidence that Republicans have purposefully throw the government into chaos with a shutdown,” BuzzFeed reports.

“Normally, any member of the House can force a vote on legislation which the Senate and House are unable to agree on. Although it is a rarely used mechanism, House Republicans were taking no chances in the days leading up to the shutdown. Republican leaders were nervous about the possibility that the Senate’s clean spending extension bill would pass the chamber on the strength of Democratic votes — or worse, that it would fail, taking it off the table permanently as a solution.”

Joshua Green: “Here’s a cheerful thought as Congress remains deadlocked over the debt ceiling and the hours tick away toward default: Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who basically forced the shutdown and whose own private polls have convinced him that it has been a glorious success, at this point could probably force a default and global economic calamity on his own–if he were so inclined.”

The Raleigh News and Observer looks at why Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) agreed to hold the line with her party and force a government shutdown.

“So if Ellmers has anything to fear politically, it is a primary challenge from her right. The pressure will always come from party conservatives urging her to take the most conservative position, to never compromise with Democrats.”

“It is the same situation in congressional districts all across the country, where gerrymandering has caused political silos. There is no incentive for members of Congress to compromise or to work together. But there is constant pressure to take the most strident, ideological positions.”

First Read says the rally that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sarah Palin had in Washington on Sunday protesting the closure of the war memorials didn’t help Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“Why? Because the solution to this fiscal standoff, at least according to establishment Republicans, has always been to declare victory (from the lower government spending over the last couple of years), and simply move on. But the pressure from Cruz, et al isn’t going to give Boehner and McConnell any cover from Tea Party conservatives. Also, it was striking that the conservatives who shut down the government — by demanding that the health-care law be defunded or delayed — were stoking outrage that parts of the government were closed. It was akin to working to close a grocery store but then being outraged that the bread aisle is closed.”

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.”