Stormy Monday, 10/21/13

Whew. Debt ceiling raised, spending resolution passed, constitutional crisis averted. Now everything can get back to normal: more meaningless votes to kill Obamacare, more putrescent hypocrisy about deficits, more infantile refusal to compromise, more chicken fried grandstanding, more outrageous policy “ideas” that were intellectually stillborn the first, second or third time they were proposed, back at the lowering, ominous dawn of the Reagan era.

“Positive Bunny” kicks off the week with a Monday morning performance of his “sunny bunny” dance outside the Capitol. Brainchild of “Purge Day” activist Patricia Taylor, the event is somehow intended to help restore America’s “sunny disposition.” I can assure Ms. Taylor that this American, at least, doesn’t have a sunny disposition, and this stunt won’t do a thing to change that, though I applaud her work on behalf of troubled teens.

Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, speaks Tuesday at the Institute of Peace, an event moderated (in an astonishingly garish display of irony) by war criminal and former Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.

Sharif then visits the White House on Wednesday, as the Obama Administration prepares to restore $1.5 billion in aid suspended shortly after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in 2011...