TPM and National Journal point out similarities between the Reid
and Boehner bills. The difference Steven Taylor sees:  While I
may well be missing something, it seems that the main reasons
Republicans don’t like the Reid plan is because it has a
Democrats name on it and, likewise the Democrats don’t like the
Boehner plan because an R’s name is on it.  Jonathan Bernstein
says Reid’s is better:  Both plans keep open, through the
creation of a new joint committee, the hope of a Grand Bargain
that would make all of this essentially a moot point. With Reid,
however, if a Grand Bargain isn’t reached then that’s the end of
it; with Boehner, Democrats would be back to needing to find a
dollar of spending cuts for every dollar of debt limit
extension.  Jonathan Chait agrees:  Conservatives have been
pointing out that debt ceiling hikes are historically short
term. That’s true! But they’re also historically routine votes,
rather than high stakes hostage crises.  Keith Hennessey argues
in favor of the Boehner plan:   M