Axelrod: Government is just too darn big for Obama to know what goes on...

NRO's Andrew Johnson tips us off to this gem:

The government is simply too big for President Obama to keep track of all the wrongdoing taking place on his watch, his former senior adviser, David Axelrod, told MSNBC. “Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,” he explained.

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Here's a novel idea: If the federal bureaucracy is "too vast" for the President to manage, wouldn't it make sense to shrink the government rather than grow it?  Food for thought...

At another point in the same interview, Axelrod defended the Department of Justice's decision to track the phones of reporters in order to plug a intel leak.  Madeleine has more on that here.