I love the smell of right-wing conservative desperation in the morning:
One idea being considered to end the immediate fiscal impasse is a bill to fund the government and extend the nation's borrowing authority for six weeks, a senior Republican member of the House told CNN...
This idea of an extension being floated among Republicans would give everyone a temporary political reprieve. It would give them a way to reopen the government but bypass the issue of tying it to a change in Obamacare, as well as avert a crisis over whether to raise the nation's debt limit by Oct. 17 when the Treasury Department has said it will run out of money to pay its bills.
The House Republican told Borger it is "unfair" to promise conservatives in the country something Republicans in Congress just cannot deliver - the defunding of Obamacare.
The Democrats should hold firm until Republicans give up the charade and fund the government with no strings attached.
Still, Democrats probably don't mind letting conservative Republicans alienate even more by shutting down the government again in six weeks as it would the same way: a marginalized right-wing, an in-tact Affordable Care Act, and a government open for business despite the reckless sabotage of tea party radicals.