Ryan to the rescue?

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...n-fiscal-crisis-with-obamacare-still-in-mind/​

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is emerging as the key congressional Republican in negotiating with Democrats to solve Washington’s two fiscal crises with a plan that only delays efforts to defund ObamaCare, not derail them.

Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is proposing a plan to increase to the federal debt that is tied largely to simplifying the tax code, make enough changes to Medicare to offset cuts to domestic spending and defense programs and a solid promise from Senate Democrats and President Obama to continue talks about reopening the federal government, other fiscal crisis.

Failure to increase the debt limit within roughly the next week would result in the country defaulting on its debt for the first time in history. The partial government shutdown started Oct. 1.

“I'm working to get a budget agreement,” Ryan told a group of conservative meeting this weekend in Washington. “We need to completely rethink government’s role in helping the most vulnerable. … That means we can never give up on repealing and replacing ObamaCare.”

Ryan's efforts to make a deal with Senate Democrats has traction with conservative Republicans, and perhaps most importantly Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash), who is chair of the Senate Budget Committee. Ryan and Murray have yet to meet, but it is said they have been having backdoor communications in the last few days. A Senate effort to extend the debt limit one year and which makes vague references to delaying some phases of the ACA looks to be dead in the water and Reid refuses to let it out of committee if it is approved.

 

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UPDATE: Not only did Reid's plan collapse, so did Senator Susan Collins' (R-Maine) plan.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...l-house-leaves-collins-plan-in-serious-doubt/​

Negotiations to fully reopen the federal government and increase the debt limit faltered Saturday in the Senate and House – with a proposal by a moderate Senate Republican being rejected, hence postponing any hopes of breakthrough until at least Tuesday-- two weeks after the partial shutdown started.

The plan by Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins to fund the government for six months and increase the federal debt limit through January was rejected by leaders of the Democrat-led Senate, who purportedly though they were not getting enough in exchange.

The upper chamber also failed the get the necessary 60 vote on a bill to increase the debt through 2014 that was “clean” of Republican demands to spending cuts or changes to ObamaCare.

That leaves the Ryan plan the only viable option on the table at this juncture, but the House adjourned for the weekend and went home, after defeating a Democratic Party effort to reopen the government with a "clean" CR similar to Reid's failed idea.