How Did it Come to This for Obama and the Dems?

Gloria Borger, CNNThe House has just adjourned -- a week early -- to go home so Democrats can run for their political lives. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ardent as ever, calls in a group of journalists to make her pitch about the productive Congress -- and begins with a list of achievements (health care, Wall Street reform, stimulus, small business jobs act)."I'm so proud of it," she says, sounding like a parent examining a brilliant report card, beaming.

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