Wake Up!!! A message from President Clinton:

Clinton said his side shares blame for the gridlock in Washington, but predicted that enough Democrats would be willing to reform some of their cherished programs for the sake of making progress. He also said voters share blame for political gridlock because they elected the Tea Party-backed freshmen who ran promising to avoid compromise.

"They go around telling everybody how sorry these politicians are, and they voted for them," Clinton said, noting that the freshman members of Congress are likely confused by their record-low approval ratings. "They must be bewildered. All they're doing is what they promised to do when they won that overwhelming victory. It is not like they did not tell everybody what they were going to do."

Still, Clinton argued that the nation needs an approach that values two sides coming together, rather than one that attempts to pull everyone to one side. Mourdock, for example, has said he believes the country is as divided as it was before the Civil War.