Political prognosticators are a lot like Iowa and New Hampshire in that it’s only every four years that people pay them any attention.  Something you can always count on is that at some point they’ll stop gazing into crystal balls and reading tea leaves long …

This week the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution to disapprove of the Obama administration’s request for an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling – another “sign of leadership failure,” in the president’s own words.

The vote itself is an indictment of the …