Please dial back the hysterical rhetoric.

[Demo_Chris]

I am not a fan of these right wing blackmail tactics. Comparatively few people are, and that number is decliding every day. This is fantastic for us as a party, and a disaster for the GOP. They are increasingly viewed as being disconnected and irresponsible -- rapidly heading toward dangerously unhinged. Our party, despite all the false equivalence noise from the media, is seen by the public as the responsible adults in a room a shrieking children. Much of the credit for this goes to our President who has addressed this in a calm and mature manner.

This is the correct tone.

The Republicans are acting like ten year olds scratching dirty words on grade-school bathroom stalls, children practicing destruction for spite. We should be like the street cop who has caught them and is dragging them home to their parents. Hysteria is NOT called for, calm maturity is.

What they are doing is not treason, it is not a coup, it is is not even illegal. Claiming that it is any of these things and posting about it publicly makes us sound as silly and over the top as the people we politically oppose. Deal with it as you would an out-of-control child. Point out the damage that they are causing and leave it there. No comments about their theoretical motivations -- they have no plan, so stop crediting them with having one.

And no, nothing these imbeciles do will cause any long term ill effects to the world economy. Not so long as the calm rational people (that would be us) are seen as standing by waiting to intercede. Right now they are largely just harming themselves, and doing a bloody good job of it. When your opponents are doing something stupid let them do it. When the enemy army is marching into a swamp don't march after them. Just shake your had and wave goodbye.

In my opinion.