Just seven weeks after President Obama took responsibility for Democratic defeats in the House of Representatives after the midterm elections, the Obama administration was out in front taking responsibility for the recent legislative accomplishments during the Congressional lame-duck session. This past weekend, White House officials were not only highlighting the legislative successes of the session, but the manor in which they were accomplished.

White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett spoke on NBC's "Meet The Press," saying, "As the President said right after the election, what we heard and what the nation said during the election is that they really wanted see Congress and the President and the Administration in Washington working together. They wanted us to deliver on behalf of the American people. And I think what we saw during the course of the last few weeks is just that. We made enormous progress."

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," White House spokesperson Robert Gibbs called the last month a time of Congressional bipartisanship. "I think everyone put aside politics and partisan interests to put forward what was best for the American people," he said. "There was a responsibility of government that, I think, the Republicans got in the November elections and they began to understand that responsibility a little bit more in this lame duck than they had in the previous, quite frankly, 18 or so months."

Even the president, during a press conference last week before departing to vacation in Hawaii, said the progress lawmakers were able to achieve proved it is possible for Democrats and Republicans to work together to get things done.

President Obama described the past two weeks as the "most productive post-election period," adding that "it comes on the heels of the most productive two years that we've had in generations" and "we are not doomed to endless gridlock."

Some of the legislative accomplishments achieved over the past month include a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" to allow openly gay people to serve in the military, the ratification of the new arms control treaty with Russia, the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans and the approval of a bill to provide health coverage for 9/11 first responders.