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Independent Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday insisted that President Barack Obama and the White House should be held accountable for a sex scandal within the Secret Service and for lavish spending at the General Services Administration (GSA).

"It would be unfair to hold President Obama responsible for this outrageous behavior at the Secret Service and the GSA, but it is fair to hold the president accountable," Lieberman told Fox News host Chris Wallace. "What do I mean when I say the president should be held accountable? The buck stops at the president's desk. He's the leader of our government. He now has to be acting with a kind of relentless determination to find out exactly what happened and to make sure the people who work for him at the Secret Service and the GSA and everywhere else in the government don't let anything like this happen again."

The Connecticut senator also called for an investigation to determine whether White House staff were involved in the incident where Secret Services agents allegedly solicited prostitutes in Columbia ahead of the president's recent visit there.

"I'd say it's a reasonable question," Lieberman explained. "I think the White House ought to be conducting its own internal investigation of White House personnel who were in Cartagena just to makes sure that none of them were involved in this kind of inappropriate behavior."

"I understand a White House advance person doesn't have quite the same range of responsibility as a Secret Service agent does. On the other hand, a White House advance person knows exactly where the president is going to be at any time. ... So, that's an important question and the White House ought to be taking [Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck] Grassley's inquiry not defensively, but making sure they answer the questions."

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Cenk Uygur did a nice analysis which showed the difference between the amount of government spending which was wasted in the recent General Services Administration scandal that has the right wing and a good deal of our corporate media, freaking out over the amount of money wasted during that debacle, and what they're routinely dismissing as just a "tiny portion of the budget" which would be gained if Congress actually passed the "Buffett Rule."

Most of his ire was reserved for CNN host Erin Burnett, who is one of the millionaires herself that would be affected if that rule ever passed and her penchant for quoting sources like the Tax Foundation and bringing on billionaires like John Paul DeJoria to discuss why the rich should not have to pay more in taxes.

As Cenk also noted, Burnett was repeating the exact same lines as Republicans like Mitt Romney out on the campaign trail, who claimed the Buffett rule passing would be meaningless because the amount of the deficit it would reduce was, in his estimate, only eleven hours of government spending. That waste they were freaking out about and having hearings over for the last couple of days that we just can't allow to go on or the world is going to come to an end...seven seconds.

It's always good to know that Republicans have their priorities in line with their latest feigned outrage of the week.