Nobody tells Obama anything

I swear that if Secret Service shot John Boehner, Jay Carney would tell the press that Obama just found out about it by reading it in the papers.

On all three matters, the White House yesterday tried to deflect blame. The disputed Benghazi talking points, advisers said, were chiefly the CIA’s work, while the IRS scandal was an internal agency problem. Obama spokesman Jay Carney referred questions about the AP scandal to DOJ. Asked why Obama can’t just ask Holder, Carney said, “A great deal prevents the president from doing that. It would be wholly inappropriate for the president to involve himself in a criminal investigation that ... involves leaks of information from the administration.”

Obama is so detached from the government that it may no longer be fair to call this the Obama administration. Proving the Limbaugh Theorem: He's got nothing to do with whatever's happening.

Kathy Shaidle put it this way:

Some call it the “Limbaugh Theorem:” That Obama’s popularity lies in his remaining in campaign mode, instead of getting down to the business of governance.

The Obama approach to any problem, scandal or disaster that occurs on his watch is that he's against it.   He's outside of Washington campaigning against whatever's wrong.   He has nothing to do with being in charge of the executive branch of the Federal Government.  The buck never stops with him.

• The Obama IRS decides to harass Obama's opposition? Obama's against it IF it happened.
•  Susan Rice acting as the Obama administration spokesman tells everyone that the Benghazi attack was really a boisterous movie review that got a little out of hand? Obama claims he called it a terrorist attack ... before he blamed the movie.
• The Obama Justice Department seizes the phone records of the AP? Obama didn't know and can't call Holder about it because ...(Jay Carney explains)?

Dana Milbank, DANA MILBANK OF THE WASHINGTON POST! (A sure sign of the Apocalypse!) calls Obama President Passerby. 

Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a fishing expedition through months of phone records of Associated Press reporters.

And yet President Obama reacted much as he did to the equally astonishing revelation on Friday that the IRS had targeted conservative groups based on their ideology: He responded as though he were just some bloke on a bar stool, getting his information from the evening news.

In the phone-snooping case, Obama didn’t even stir from his stool. Instead, he had his press secretary, former Time magazine journalist Jay Carney, go before an incensed press corps Tuesday afternoon and explain why the president will not be involving himself in his Justice Department’s trampling of press freedoms.

“Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the Associated Press,” Carney announced.

The president “found out about the news reports yesterday on the road,” he added.

And now that Obama has learned about this extraordinary abuse of power, he’s not doing a thing about it. “We are not involved at the White House in any decisions made in connection with ongoing criminal investigations,” Carney argued.

I wonder if Dana has his tax records handy?