Sorry, folks: I thought I had published a Day’s End four hours ago before rushing out for a family dinner, but it seems to have disappeared. Ugh. Well, I do have some later news.
So very late, here are some final items of the day:
* Republicans rhetorically shift to a “mini-CR” strategy of funding measures for popular appropriations categories like national parks, but it failed to win two-thirds House vote needed to suspend the rules.
* CR battle increasingly likely to merge with debt limit fight, which means government will probably be shut down for an extended period–perhaps until October 17 deadline for debt limit increase.
* Here’s the sort of imagery that could exercise public about shutdown: veterans break through barriers at World War II Memorial in Washington.
* At Ten Miles Square, Seth Masket explains the government shutdown is asymmetric polarization in action.
* Also at Ten Miles Square, Cass Sunstein offers a new typology of Supreme Court justices over the years.
And in non-political news:
* Stock market rebounds. Go figure.
Here to close the day a second time is Apocalyptica with “Bittersweet.”
Selah.
