Rep. Henry Bonilla, a fine fellow, wants to rename Washington’s 16th Street NW after Ronald Reagan. People in Washington are going nuts since the city is 90 percent Democratic. Needless to say, that’s going to stimulate a lot of conservatives who will think, in contradiction, that it’s a peachy idea. It isn’t. In fact, it’s a really dumb idea. 16th Street is a major Washington thoroughfare and has been one for nearly two centuries. Renaming something so very familiar is an act of government high-handedness, as the New York City example of renaming 6th Avenue “Avenue of the Americas” demonstrates. It’s been 60 years, and nobody calls it Avenue of the Americas, and nobody ever will (except for real estate reasons). I’m all for honoring Ronald Reagan, but not this way — not in a way that would embarrass Reagan himself.