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By Scott Conroy - February 14, 2012

Within the next few weeks, top administration officials ranging from Cabinet secretaries like Kathleen Sebelius to senior advisers like David Axelrod will begin hobnobbing at high-dollar fundraisers for Priorities USA Action -- the super PAC created by former White House aides to bolster President Obama's re-election chances.

The Federal Election Commission rules that bar such power players from directly asking for donations are no impediment to the implicit solicitation of the big-figure checks that will inevitably pour in.

And so the presence at these events of prominent government figures with direct lines to the president -- and the concerns their presence raises about money buying access in American...