Jon Methven provides charts. Among them:
Cartoon history of the debt ceiling here. Taiwanese TV depiction of recent events here. Ezra Klein, in a more serious post, explains what comes after the debt deal. And Bruce Bartlett continues to lobby for ending the debt ceiling altogether:
While politicians and the general public believe that the debt limit is an important constraint on national indebtedness, not one iota of evidence supports this belief. Economists have been making this point repeatedly for more than 50 years.
The Dish 