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Obama got his big victory with health-care reform. Now it’s time to lower everybody’s expectations.

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Susan Walsh
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Ronald Reagan once compared the flow of a presidency to the flow of a movie: Grab their attention at the beginning, coast for a while; then a big finale at the end.

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