House Speaker John Boehner says the short-term measure he plans to announce Sunday to avert a debt limit crisis may not get support from Democratic leaders, but he'll push forward even without such backing. 
 
 "The preferable path would be a bipartisan plan that involves all of the leaders, but it’s too early to decide whether that’s possible," Boehner said on "Fox News Sunday." "If that’s not possible, I and my Republican colleagues are prepared to move on our own." 
 
 Boehner said his plan would be based on the House Republicans' Cap, Cut and Balance plan that cleared the House but was rejected in the Senate. Boehner said Saturday he wanted to offer a new plan by 4 p.m. Sunday so that stock markets opening in Asia shortly after that do not panic. On Sunday, though, he tried to take the focus off of those markets. 
 
 "While Asia may be important, this is about American jobs and the American economy," he said. "I believe taking serious steps towards solving this problem will in fact breed more confidence in the economy." ||||| House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that since a two-step deal is now the only way to implement a long-term deficit reduction plan, President Barack Obama should consider a Republican proposal to raise the debt limit until early next year rather than through the 2012 election as Obama has insisted. 
 
 "There is going to be a two-stage process. It's not physically possible to do all of this in one step," Boehner said on "Fox News Sunday." 
 
 Last week, the White House indicated that if a so-called big deal to reduce deficits and debt over the next decade is reached Obama would sign a short-term extension of the debt limit so legislative language could be drafted. Boehner appeared Sunday to be trying to leverage that White House statement into the kind of flexibility that would allow for a two-stage process locking in some cuts and raising the debt limit but only through the beginning of next year. 
 
 Boehner suggested Sunday that by trying to put the next debt ceiling debate off for so long Obama was trying to gain political advantage. 
 
 "I know the president is worried about his next re-election, but, my Gdd, shouldn’t we be worried about the country?" Boehner asked. "We have a 14-and-half-trillion dollar national debt. It's time to get seirous about stopping the spending here in Washington D.C." 
 
 Obama administration officials have said their motivation for a long-term debt ceiling raise is not political, but rather to remove the uncertainty over the issue from the sputtering economy. ||||| Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from March 2011. This uses the new HQ software for distributed crawling by Kenji Nagahashi. 
 
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– John Boehner was a late addition to Fox News Sunday today, and painted a two-step deal as the only alternative left. "It's not physically possible to do all of this in one step," Boehner told Chris Wallace, advocating a short-term fix through early next year; President Obama has vowed to veto any deal that doesn't extend to 2013. "I know the president is worried about his next re-election, but, my God, shouldn’t we be worried about the country?" Boehner said. The speaker said he'll put forth a plan based on the House's Cap, Cut, and Balance plan, and said Republicans are "prepared to move on our own." He added that his last offer to the White House of $800 billion in revenue was "still on the table." Elsewhere on the Sunday debt-ceiling dial, as per Politico: Tim Geithner floats new grand plan: "Both of those are on the table," he said of the so-called "grand bargain" and the McConnell backup plan being advanced in the Senate. "Now, they could be combined in various forms." Tim Pawlenty thinks Obama is 'chicken:' "If you're the leader of the free world, would you please come to microphone and quit hiding in the basement about your proposals, and come on up and address the American people? Is he chicken?" Bill Daley on a two-step deal: "The president's position is: Yes, let's move forward. If there's two steps, fine. But do not have a step in the second part that lets the political system once again show its dysfunction. Get this ceiling put off until after the election." Tom Coburn on Obama's veto threat: "I think that's a ridiculous position because that's what he's going to get presented with. That's the... way through that's going to build a compromise."