If Boehner has to go with the no-Hastert rule approach, a deal would be done fairly easily on a clean CR.

GOP Rep Charlie Dent tells me over half of House Rs would be *privately* OK with letting clean CR pass: http://t.co/mVxG3XhVE8

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 30, 2013

In other words, the TPExtortionist wing of the GOP is the one holding the economy and nation hostage to their ongoing demand to defund, delay and destroy the ACA. But for their narrow and single-minded determination to overturn the law of the land by diktat, the debt ceiling would be raised with little fanfare.