Two comments below the article:
Poster 1) Is Erick proposing that the House pass a clean Debt Limit increase, or does he want requirements attached?
Poster 2) Yeah, and probably pass a short term CR as well. Right now it looks like either retreat or surrender, so retreat is the obvious choice. If Reid & Obama want to “default” now to stop the GOP from potentially doing it in a few months, let them. Even the MSM will have trouble selling that one - though they’d surely try. And once things are temporarily suspended, the House should pass all of its appropriations bills. Then announce that any future CRs will only cover appropriations that are awaiting reconciliation in conference (meaning the Senate had passed them with amendments). Force the Senate to go on record about specific spending requests. Really shouldn’t ever need a CR if both houses are doing their jobs.
Re Poster 1: My reading of the article is that Erick is proposing that the House pass a clean Debt Limit increase, with no requirements attached. The reason is to keep the focus on ObummerCare until that is resolved. Obummer, the Dhimms, and the Big Government Republicans are trying to combine the CR with the debt limit increase to give McConnell/Boehner more maneuverability to cave.
Re Poster 2: I don’t see anywhere in the article a reference to passing a short term CR. I think that would defeat the purpose of what Lee, Cruz et al. have been doing. My take is that Erick wants to not budge on the CR. Ryan et al. want to conflate the CR and DL to wiggle out of holding firm on the CR.