Examiner Editorial: President Obama's second term shaping up as a train wreck

◼ Between the growing consensus that implementing Obamacare is a "train wreck" and confirmation that his administration is preventing Benghazi massacre survivors and whistle-blowers from testifying before Congress about what really happened in Libya, the outlines of a second-term collapse could take shape in the next several weeks. - Washington Examiner Editorial

A portent of trouble ahead came early in April when Time magazine's Joe Klein, normally a reliable Obama enthusiast, warned that "we are now seeing weekly examples of this administration's inability to govern." Then the Obamacare train wreck meme flashed across the headlines when Sen. Max Baucus, one of the health reform law's chief sponsors, told Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that "I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet." Despite Baucus' subsequent efforts to walk back his comments, the "train wreck" quickly became a staple of political conversation across the ideological and media spectrum, fueled by growing evidence that health insurance premiums for millions of Americans will soon skyrocket because of Obamacare.

The Benghazi story seemed to have fizzled out in April until Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said during a weekend interview on Fox News that "explosive hearings" were soon to be held and suggested that they would include "eyewitness testimony" from survivors who had been kept behind closed doors by the Obama administration since Sept. 11 last year. One of those survivors was presented in-shadow Monday on Fox News' "Special Report," then Obama played possum when asked about the issue at his Tuesday news conference, claiming he was "not familiar" with it....