MAJOR MORALITY ADVANCE – AT 6:14 P.M. ET:  The White House is admitting that it may just – little bitsy – bear some responsibility for the Massachusetts massacre.  Please read carefully, as words are being formed with a delicate scalpel:

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that the Obama administration "bears some responsibility" for Democrat Martha Coakley's loss in the Massachusetts Senate election Tuesday.

"The president didn't expect — I would certainly put myself in that category — not expecting to lose that Senate race," Gibbs told reporters in his daily briefing. "There's no doubt we are frustrated by that. So I think everybody bears some responsibility, certainly including the White House."

Whaa?  Are they bearing responsibility for the frustration, or what?

Asked to assign comparative levels of blame to national Democrats for their role in the campaign and Coakley's camp for its weak performance, Gibbs reiterated: "We all bear some responsibility."

Well, it's not exactly Jack Kennedy's phrase, uttered after the Bay of Pigs, "I am the responsible officer of the government," but it's something.  The psychiatrists will give all the White House guys something to say.  Remember, bottom line, the fault lies with BUSH (!!).

January 20, 2010