Negotiation Limits

Only moronic democrats (or crypto-Republicans - it's hard to tell the difference) like Turbo Timmy Geithner would come up with a strategy to deal with House Republican hostage taking of the debt limit by delaying the crisis so that the Obama administration can eventually acquiesce to most of the Tea Party's demands. The debt limit was reached today. Rather than delaying the day of reckoning, why hasn't the administration tried to accelerate the debt issue and force Republicans to vote on the issue before they could organize their demands?