What did the President know, and when did he know it? Apparently he never knew to begin with.

Today has been a day with yet another scandal breaking at the federal level; that the DOJ unlawfully targeted the AP's phone records in an investigation.  That is after Monday's scandal broke regarding the IRS targeting conservative groups.  And the Benghazi scandal in recent weeks.  However, I'm not here today to discuss any scandal in particular.  I'm here to discuss a pattern which seems to be developing in the White House.

The Obama administration, and everyone's favorite spokesman Jay Carney, seem resigned to the tactic of ignorance on all of these scandals.  Day after day, Carney speaks for the President, and occasionally the President himself speaks on his own behalf.  While initially on Benghazi they all pointed in the wrong direction regarding the events which transpired (and the cause and aftermath), since then it has pretty much been a mixture of the following excuses: We don't know.  We didn't know.

I'm not sure exactly how they expect us to believe this.  You didn't know what was going on in Benghazi leading up to the attacks.  You didn't know what was going on during the attacks.  You didn't know what was going on after the attacks.  You didn't know at the time that you were blaming the wrong factors.  You didn't know the IRS was targeting conservative groups with audits leading up to the elections.  You didn't know the DoJ was illegally obtaining phone records from the AP.  Your Attorney General didn't know anything about it.  Also you don't know what he knew, because Carney said today that the President has not spoken to the Attorney General about this matter.  Basically anytime a scandal breaks out in this administration, the administration doesn't know anything about it until they see it in the news like you or me.

Here is today's question: What exactly does the President see every day in his daily briefings?  Literally every morning a report is delivered to the President with the main activities, concerns and issues of the day to keep an eye on.  We are now supposed to believe the President never read anything in his daily briefings about Benghazi in the months leading up to the attacks.  His briefings never mentioned violence escalating or request for security.  It never mentioned terrorist activities behind the attack.  It never mentioned any link to Al Qaeda.  It never mentioned anything about the IRS audits targeting conservative groups, even though this information has been lurking around for the last two years.  It never mentioned anything about his hand-selected Attorney General heading up a Department of Justice which was illegally using AP phone records.  We have literally been told they didn't know about this story until they saw it on the news.  The President of the United States has the full resources of the most powerful intelligence gathering machines ever assembled in human history, yet he seems ignorant of these major scandals.  And nobody seems to blame him for anything that happens under his watch.

Let me rewind a few years.  Does anyone remember a man named George W. Bush?  He was President for about 8 years.  Does anyone remember how often Bush was blamed for activities under his administration?  Liberals basically blamed him for anything that happened for the entire 8 years of his presidency.  9/11?  Bush.  War in Iraq?  Bush.  Missing WMDs?  Bush.  Struggling economy?  Bush.  Prisoner abuse at Abu Gharib?  Bush.  Real estate bubble collapse?  Bush.  Hurricane Katrina?  Bush.   The Democrats and liberal media somehow managed to blame a natural disaster and act of God on George W. Bush.  It hit New Orleans and they weren't prepared, therefore George Bush doesn't care about black people.  Seems legit.  For eight long years, you could pretty much pick a bad headline out of any major newspaper, and you'd have Jon Stewart or Bill Maher informing us of how this somehow fell at the feet of George W. Bush.  Love him or hate him, George Bush took way more flak than maybe any President in history for things he wasn't even involved in.  For some reason, our current President doesn't take flak for anything even if it falls directly at his feet.  Heavy lies the crown Mr. President.  If you enjoy your position of power, it is time to accept the responsibility which comes with it.

So back to the President's daily briefings.  Remember that memo during the Bush administration entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US"?  Democrats absolutely hammered Bush and his cabinet for ignoring these warnings.  Remember those memos requesting more security at Benghazi leading up to the terrorist attack which were ignored?  Democrats declare such a question a witch hunt and political sideshow.  It sure must be nice to have your cake and eat it too.

That leaves us with two possibilities.  Either the President and his staff are lying to us when they continue to plead ignorance and tell us they never knew anything all of these scandals currently mounting.  Or the President is completely asleep at the wheel, ignoring the intelligence provided to him, and caring more about partying with Jay-Z and golfing with Tiger Woods than reading his daily briefings.  Either way, I imagine things probably wouldn't be too much worse if you replaced the daily briefings with a booklet of Mad-Libs.  Of course, that is assuming we are dealing with ignorance, not lies.  Pay attention these next few weeks.  I'm guessing today won't be the last time the administration tells us "we don't know".