Frankly, it's hard to feel much sympathy for her - particularly when, in a recent interview with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, she assessed her own performance the past three years as "job well done." What a spectacularly self-serving fantasy. In 1974, after two years of Watergate scandals and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, Republicans only lost 49 House seats. This year, Democrats are on track to lose 63 seats - yet Pelosi has "no regrets." She feels she did good work. She isn't alone in that. Other Democratic leaders share her view. Rather than take ownership and accept responsibility -- rather than step back and consider the possibility that their arrogant, shove-it-down-the-public's-throat strategy on health care reform and the perennial "what, me worry?" approach to federal spending may have caused the party's defeat -- they blame the recession/William Spence, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Or congressional Democrats victims of the recession or over-reaching?