That's one up and one down, with no statistically significant difference between the pre- and post-shutdown polls.
If Mr Cruz indeed has presidential ambitions - he has only been in the Senate one year - he will surely take encouragement from a post-shutdown poll released this week by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Tribune.
"Flipboard will preserve your Google Reader feeds, folders and favorited items, so you can continue to enjoy all your subscriptions," explained the company, while warning that some features: favouriting items, creating new folders and adding or removing feeds, won't be available post-shutdown.
(The 7, M, and G will see more trains during the shutdown, but whether that service will stay around post-shutdown, when Amazon actually arrives, is unclear).
It isn't clear yet how entitlement cuts will figure in the post-shutdown budget talks, but it's possible they'll become part a new "grand bargain" discussion on Capitol Hill.
Also on the post-shutdown agenda is legislation that would prevent the Department of Labor and the SEC from implementing new consumer protection standards for 401(k) accounts and other retirement funds.
In her post-shutdown New York Times column, Maureen Down ridiculed Obama, claiming he "always manages to convey tedium at the idea that he actually has to persuade people to come along with him, given the fact that he feels he's doing what's right" (i.e., Obama's too arrogant to lead).
The models evaluating facility emissions and resulting air concentrations and deposition accounted for prevailing weather patterns, emission controls installed in the plant, and post-shutdown emissions due to fugitive dust and construction activities.
Soon after, Japan scrapped plans to cut carbon emissions by 25% by 2020, citing its post-tsunami shutdown of nuclear-power plants.
