What happened yesterday that created the public disruption in talks between President Obama and John Boehner on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction? Pretty clearly, this was the only substantive impact of the Gang of Six’s intrusion on the issue. Their proposal has turned out to be vaporware — it doesn’t actually address the debt ceiling, for one thing, and they don’t have an actual plan, either, not one that commits to language that can be scored. However, it provided enough of a distraction to allow Obama to shift the goalposts on revenue halfway down the field, as Jim Pethokoukis...