It Was Already Over

Calm Down, People: Obama's Second Term Was Already in Tatters - Garance Franke-Ruta - The Atlantic:

Are the AP snooping, Benghazi, and IRS scandals about to destroy Obama's second term? Not really—because hyperpartisanship in Washington had already stalled the president's agenda and put the 113th Congress on track to become another one of the young 21st century's already-legendary do-nothing bodies...