Sarah Palin may have gone rogue. District elected officials went insane. Their madness consumed the government and vexed residents, causing many to fret about the city’s future.

Ward 3 D.C. Councilwoman Mary Cheh accused Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s administration of being lawless. The legislature wasn’t exactly law-abiding. It’s surprising no one called back former Metropolitan Police Department Chief Charles Ramsey to throw a dragnet around the John A. Wilson Building and hogtie its occupants. No one was innocent.