But Clark didn't point fingers on what went wrong. He may have been the only one. Some snippets from Wednesday interviews:

David Williams blamed the KEA and JCTA for killing the pension bill, saying the teachers' lobbyists scared enough house members about details of the agreement reached between House and Senate leaders. He also says Jody Richards admitted to him that he'd "lost control" of house democrats causing the pension bill's demise, an allegation denied by Richards.

Speaker Richards said his chamber didn't get a copy of the proposed pension bill compromise until 11:15 p.m. and he decided that wasn't enough time for members to digest it, feel comfortable with it and pass it. Richards blamed the Senate for waiting until the last minute to try and cut a deal on the pension bill and said "we're just not going to take that from them anymore." Richards did take some of the blame for the last minute catastrophes saying the House should have sent the budget bill to the senate sooner. He says he'll work with David Williams to come up with a better process to prevent the legislative logjams in the future.

Governor Beshear called it a "disappointing session" and said "partisan politics" often trumped good government. Beshear says it's going to be up to ordinary citizens to rise up and demand that the parties and legislative chambers work together to get anything done. Williams fired back that Beshear "failed on every occasion to understand what was going on this session. He didn't have a good session.......he was just not engaged." Williams says the governor doesn't know what he's talking about when he blames partisan politics for the failures in Frankfort. Williams says he and Senate Minority Leader Ed Worley worked well together in the Senate. The Senate President says the fractured Democratic leadership in the House and Beshear's failure to lead caused any problems in the 2008 session.

By the way, Williams says the 2008 session was a good one and most senators consider it a success. I'm not sure that spin will work on the reporters who covered the session, the lobbyists who worked it or most legislators, including those in his own caucus, who were part of it. The question is, do most Kentuckians think it was a successful session of the legislature?