SO GLAD TO HEAR IT – AT 1:20 P.M. ET:  Outgoing President Obama (that sounds so good) has finally conceded that he might be a little bit responsible for his party's devastating losses at the polls.  But just a little bit.  A little weeny bit.  From The Hill: 

President Obama in an interview broadcast Sunday accepted some of the blame for the Democratic Party's loss of seats in the House, Senate, governorships and state houses during his time in office.

"I take some responsibility on that," the president told ABC's "This Week."

"I think that some of it was circumstances."

Obama said he came into office in the middle of one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression.

"And unlike FDR who ... didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected," Obama said.

"I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth."

But, he added, there were still a lot of people who were out of work in 2010.

"There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401(k)s plummet," Obama said.

"And we were just at the beginnings of a recovery. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit," he continued.

COMMENT:  Obama has never been very good in history.  Doesn't read much.  Never released his grades.  FDR was re-elected in 1936, 1940, and 1944.  His successor, Harry S. Truman, was elected in 1948.  It wasn't until 1952, 20 years after FDR's first presidential victory, that the Republicans won a presidential election, and then only with war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

Democrats also dominated Congress, with few interruptions, for decades after FDR's first national victory.  They did so, however, by having a broadly based party, and one that actually knew how to do things, not just think things.  Contrast that, please, with the party of Obama.

January 8, 2016