The shutdown will end because it is making corporations and powerful CEOs very nervous. The Republicans have lost control of major parts of their party for the first time in modern history, but that will not last – the CEOs have far more money and thus far more real power.

Anytime corporate profits are threatened – which they very much are by the catastrophic threat of default – the whining children, no matter how belligerent, will be locked back in their rooms for a bit.

Sad that the only thing causing some sense to break out is by some of the most venal, avaricious and corrupt (mostly) men in the world.

But that’s how it is.