"The Inevitable Republican Concession"

"Senate Majority Harry Reid is going to strike a deal with his Republican counterpart Mitch McConnell at some point in the next few days. The deal will reopen the government for a medium length of time--possibly till January 15, when the next round of sequester cuts kick in--giving the two sides time to replace the sequester with something more appealing. The deal will also raise the debt ceiling--maybe for as little as a few months, maybe until after the 2014 election. Reid will give up almost no concessions in return for any of this, with the exception of one or two symbolic items, and he'll probably get some higher-than-sequester level of government funding (a top Democratic priority) for a month or two starting later this year. Pretty much every Democrat in the Senate will vote for the deal, along with at least five and maybe as many as 20 Republicans." Noam Schieber in The New Republic.