Yesterday, CNN reported that Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is providing cover for the President by claiming that "he didn't know" that the NSA was spying on various allied world leaders.
The problem for the President is that this has become his administration's standard M.O. for virtually every bit of unpleasant news. The IRS is targeting conservatives? The President didn't know. The DOJ is spying on reporters? The President didn't know. The Obamacare website is a train wreck? The President didn't know. The U.S. is running guns to Mexican drug lords? The President didn't know. The NSA is tapping the German Chancellor's phone? We are SHOCKED to learn this!
In fact, he seems to learn of virtually everything "the same way most people do" - by watching the news.
Frankly, this just isn't cutting it anymore. By claiming that he's in the dark in his own White House, Obama has basically told us one of two things.
Either:
A: He's lying, he knows exactly what's going on, and he both authorizes it and supports it.
Or
B: He's an absentee President who's abdicated his responsibilities to such a degree that he's presiding over a completely lawless administration.
He's trying desperately to have it both ways, but the usual out-of-touch shtick isn't working like it used to. That's because, either way, the fault lies at the feet of the man in the Oval Office. As we've documented over the last few days; the Obamacare chaos has caused even his former allies in the press to abandon ship. As they do, they're providing less and less cover for his worn out excuses.
This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the topic turned to the NSA's telephone surveillance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. That they're honestly discussing the scandal is amazing enough, but the video they ran seems like something that Sean Hannity would piece together...
UPDATE: a few of our Facebook commenters have said that the quote section of this clip actually did run on Hannity the night before. I didn't see it, so I can't confirm that but, if MSNBC is actually re-running anti-Obama clips from the Hannity show, that might be even more amazing.
If the President truly knew nothing about any of these scandals, he's basically accusing the government running itself - without his consent or oversight. It's time for Obama to explain how "I didn't know because I'm not paying any attention to my job" is preferable to "I did it, and here's why."
