Knives and Gunfights and Dark Brandon

Tech. Sgt. Gwendolyn Blakley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Debt ceiling crises are as periodic and predictable as El Niño. When the political atmosphere is plagued by the instability of a Republican Congress and a Democratic Presidency, one can expect ill winds to cross the land.

However, one big difference between global meteorological phenomena and U.S. politics is that there is no corresponding La Niña when the situation is reversed. In the closing…