The President’s weekly address, intended rhetorically to break Beltway gridlock, will, under the circumstances, only make it worse.

Both sides blame the other, and there is blame to go around.

I will say it again: Lord help the winner of the presidential race (and the Nation) if he doesn’t figure out how to run, win, AND end up with a mandate and way to get the other party to cooperate starting even BEFORE January 20, 2013.

The fiscal cliff looms.