MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Investors struggled to escape from the holiday funk with US stocks down on fresh worries that a deal to avert the fiscal cliff will not be completed in time.   Earlier today Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said that "it looks like that's where we're headed” when he was asked if the US would fall over the cliff.   "We've got continued uncertainty and probably not much progress on the fiscal cliff " Jack Ablin chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago told MarketWatch. "From a game-theory perspective it's in many Democrats' and Republicans' best ...