The administration that is never responsible for anything that goes wrong

Tom Price:

From questions regarding the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, to the snooping of reporters' private communications, it's hard to keep track of the scandals surrounding the Obama administration these days.

The Internal Revenue Service has admitted that for years, the agency had been subjecting conservative and religious organizations to additional scrutiny as they applied for tax-exempt status.

They've demanded details on the contents of church prayers and political book club reports. This is absolutely chilling.

In the case of the IRS targeting scandals, we have deliberate bullying of private citizens merely attempting to exercise their constitutionally protected rights.

Further, we have learned that the IRS leaked the confidential applications for tax exemption of center-right groups to ProPublica, a prominent liberal news organization.

To top it off, there are horror stories of conservative donors who believe they have been subjected to audits or have suffered from their private information being released by the Obama administration.

In some cases, there is even a seemingly concerted collaboration of different government agencies to intimidate conservative donors at their places of business.

In the wake of all this, the Obama administration has chosen to dig in and declare legitimate questions and concerns -- in the words of one White House official -- as "irrelevant."

This speaks to a larger problem with this executive branch: Nothing is ever its responsibility. In each and every scandal plaguing this White House, there never seems to be a particular person responsible when everything goes horribly wrong.

In Fast and Furious or the secret probing of journalists' personal communication records? Not Attorney General Eric Holder's responsibility.

In the Benghazi terrorist attacks? Not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's responsibility.

In the targeting scandal at the IRS? Not Lois Lerner's responsibility.

And in all of these? Not President Obama's responsibility.
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Obama does not hold people accountable, because to do so is to hold himself accountable.  He is like the man who isn't there when bad things happen.  He is the first President who seems to be a bystander in his own administration.