Lucy with the Football

Because it's the sucker's play. So Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky--a real Democrat, not a Very Serious fiscal 'conservative'--has released her own deficit plan. It's a perfectly good plan: the numbers add up (no magic asterisks, such as 'we will lower Medicare expenses [somehow]'), and as policy, even if one weren't concerned about deficit reduction, it's pretty good. But, as I've argued before, going along with this deficit reduction mania is a rigged game. Look, if this whole deficit reduction horseshit doesn't just blow away with the next televised national disaster or missing…