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In Washington, we tend to over-analyze things. Surf through cable news channels and you will inevitably hear pundits and strategists straining to devise fashionably counter-intuitive interpretations of current events. That will surely be the case regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Still, there will be no way to spin a ruling overturning health reform as anything but an historic, defining loss for President Obama. Such a ruling would surely energize Democratic activists. And, yes, certain health policy issues that will re-emerge, such as pre-existing conditions, are favorable for the president. But the bottom line is that this ruling will mean that the president devoted more than three years to waging a bitterly divisive, partisan health care battle during a tough economy and emerged with…absolutely nothing to show for it.