A Rare Reality Check

A former Senator had this to say in an op/ed in  The Hill today:

Most Americans these days are simply ignoring Republicans. And they should. 

The self-promotional babble of a few has become the mainstream of Republican political thought. It has marginalized the influence of the party to an appalling degree. 

That former Senator?  Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who excoriates his party's Crackpot Caucus for its "defund Obamacare or else" extortionist stategery over the raising the debt ceiling.  He goes on to say:

Most Americans do not seek purity; they seek answers to the everyday problems they confront. They expect their government to be of assistance in addressing those problems, not to aggravate them through artificial and self-inflicted economic mismanagement, such as having a default crisis that could easily be avoided. 

If the Republican Party ignores this concern and constantly speaks to an ever-narrower segment of the population, it is not going to be viable for long, no matter how vocal that small band of people may be. 

Finding adults and/or sane people in the Republican Party these days is more and more a challenge, but they are there (see posting below).  They just need to have the courage to stand up and speak out.

BONUS:  The American public has already taken a stand:

The CNBC poll reported that by a 59-19 percent margin, respondents opposed linking defunding of "Obamacare" to a possible shutdown starting on October 1, or to a failure to raise the government's borrowing authority, meaning Washington may not be able to pay all of its bills by sometime in October or early November.