The Obama administration’s troubles continue to mount. The New York Times seems to be coming to the end of its Obama-excuse rope. In an op-ed on the White House spying case Monday, the editorial staff ripped into the White House’s “pathetic” response to new spying accusations:

The White House response on Monday to the expanding disclosures of American spying on foreign leaders, their governments and millions of their citizens was a pathetic mix of unsatisfying assurances about reviews under way, platitudes about the need for security in an insecure age, and the odd defense that the president didn’t know that American spies had tapped the German chancellor’s cellphone for 10 years.

Apparently no one from the NYT's editorial board is swallowing Carney and company’s most recent version of “but the president didn’t know...”:

Is it really better for us to think that things have gone so far with the post-9/11 idea that any spying that can be done should be done and that nobody thought to inform President Obama about tapping the phone of one of the most important American allies?

The New York Times piece was published on the same day as NBC News’ investigation revealing the Obama administration knew for years that millions would lose their healthcare plans. This is called officially losing the narrative.