If the President isn't accountable, then we really have the tea party nightmare of the runaway administrative state accountable to no one.

The Wall Street Journal on The Unaccountable Executive.  At this point the people who are covering for the President, his staff and the media "watchdogs" who are in reality like watchdogs whose master is Obama rather than the public, are telling us that Obama not only didn't know about the scandals, but he should not have known. 

When CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley [remember her backing up Obama's false claim that he called Benghazi a terrorist attack the day after it happened?]  asked Mr. Pfieffer why the White House and top Treasury officials weren't notified, he explained that Treasury's investigation was ongoing and "Here's the cardinal rule: You do not interfere in an independent investigation."

Now there's a false choice. The Treasury Inspector General's report, for starters, was an audit, not an inviolable independent investigation. He lacked subpoena power and could bring no criminal charges. Having the President know of the IRS's mistakes so that he could act to correct the problem was not a bridge too far or even clouding the purity of the process. Those things could have been done simultaneously without compromising Treasury's investigation.

Rush Limbaugh seems to be ahead of the curve again when he says that the issue that should be debated is not what Obama knew or when he knew it.  This country has so much invested in the first Black president that he will not be removed from office before his term is over, under any circumstances.  He could give Alaska back to Russia and the Southwest back to Mexico and he will serve out his term.  Limbaugh says that the focus should be on what the federal government under the Liberals has become: corrupt, lawbreaking, and unaccountable.

If the scandal is showing anything, it is that the White House has a bizarre notion of accountability in the federal government. President Obama's former senior adviser, David Axelrod, told MSNBC recently that his guy was off the hook on the IRS scandal because "part of being President is there's so much beneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast."

In other words, the bigger the federal government grows, the less the President is responsible for it. Mr. Axelrod's remarkable admission, and the liberal media defenses of Mr. Obama's lack of responsibility, prove the tea party's point that an ever larger government has become all but impossible to govern. They also show once again that liberals are good at promising the blessings of government largesse but they leave its messes for others to clean up.

The fundamental law of the land, the Constitution makes the President responsible for the executive branch, and every department that is involved in these scandals: State, Treasury and Justice report to the President.  He is responsible whether he claims ignorance or not.  But let's assume that Obama is telling the truth that he not only didn't know but could not have known.  The lesson here is that if the executive branch of the American government is so far out of control that it is beyond the control of the President it needs to be pruned back; way back.