House Leaders Push Debt-Limit Offer

A short-term solution is better than no solution at all, right? GOP leaders are pushing for a short-term increase in the country's borrowing limit to calm nervous financial markets. The proposed resolution wouldn't contain any conservative hobby-horses. Now, Speaker John Boehner has to convince his rank-and-file members to get on board, in which case there might be a floor vote on the measure later Thursday. It remains to be seen if the seditious conservatives in the House will agree to make the offer, or whether President Obama, who has insisted on a full solution to the government shutdown, will be tempted to accept it.