The old political hands all warned President Barack Obama to stay away from health reform, that it would sink his administration as it had sunk others. Obama ignored them, lunged for national health insurance and, sure enough, it blew up in his face—exactly as the veterans had predicted. The Tea Party sprang out of the grass roots and roared at befuddled Congressional representatives in town halls across the country. Frightened moderates begged the president to dump the idea. Amid the uproar, the Obama team trooped into a gloomy Oval Office to ponder its next move. The president listened to each advisor until he came to the one responsible for rounding up the votes in Congress. “Well, Mr. President are you feeling lucky?” As soon as the words were out of his mouth Phil Schiliro panicked. In *Dirty Harry,* Clint Eastwood had asked, “are you feeling lucky, *punk*?” But the president’s reaction flew off in an unexpected direction and became Oval Office legend.…