President Obama gives himself an A+ for 2014

Unfortunately for the Democrats, the public wasn’t quite as enthusiastic about all the progress in 2014. They handed control of the Senate to Republicans in November for the first time since 2006 and gave conservatives their biggest House majority since 1928.

Our bad, the president and his staff have said. They suggest their biggest failure wasn’t adequately explaining to the public all the good things that have been happening under their watch.

“I’m obviously frustrated with the results of the midterm election,” Obama told NPR in a radio interview released Monday. “I think we had a great record for members of Congress to run on. And I don’t think we — myself, and the Democratic Party — made as good of a case as we should have.”