While the founders saw political parties as a problem, we have them. We have a car where the dems are in control of the accelerator and the repubs in charge of the break. I don't want a car that is incapable of going forward but I don't want a car that is incapable of slowing down. In our present situation we need both reasonable dems and reasonable republicans.
We so far have dems that by comparison to repubs look reasonable and we have republicans who by comparison to dems look insane.
Time to keep scorecards other than those managed by the NRA and Grover Nordquist. We need to keep score of how well these "representatives" actually represent.
