On the verge of his last days in the White House and in a rare display of humility, President Obama admitted to ABC's George Stephanopoulos over the weekend that it is possible, just maybe, that he, and the epic failure of his crowning piece of legislation, Obamacare, could have contributed to the stunning collapse of the Democratic party over the last 8 years. Well, at least he kind of admitted it before enumerating all the reasons he couldn't possibly be to blame...but it's a step in the right direction.

"I take some responsibility on that. I think that some of it was circumstances. If you look at what happened, I came in in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike FDR who waited — well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected. I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth. But what that meant is in 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet. And we were just at the beginnings of a recovery. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is going to get hit, and his party's going to get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections. But what I think that what is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as commander in chief and president of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level."

And while Obama would like for you to believe that the prolonged "great recession" caused all of those Democrats losses in Congress and state legislatures, he seems to be "mis-remembering" history. The "great recession" is precisely what catapulted Obama into the White House and resulted in massive Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate in 2008. The Democratic losses in the House and State Legislatures across the country didn't come until the mid-term elections, two full years later in 2010, as Democrats were forced to go out and campaign just after passing the unpopular and wildly controversial Obamacare.

The Washington Post even created this handy graphic which charts the losses by year.

Moreover, if Democrat losses in 2010 were, in fact, attributable to the "great recession", and given that Mr. Obama constantly likes to remind us that he has presided over a staggering "economic recovery" over the past 8 years, perhaps he can explain why Democrats have continued to lose seats throughout his presidency. Surely Democrat misfortunes should have reversed in 2012 when it became glaringly obvious that his economic policies were "working," right?

And here is the full interview with George Stephanopoulos: