Maybe if they'd try to prosecute Wall Street scumbags or reform K Street scumbaggery, the American mainstream might see them as something other than retarded, obstructionist imbeciles.
They can not do it ALONE. They need your side of the aisle - but not the ones which do "business as usual" - but the ones who do not depend on those with big pockets and can actually think about the main street Americans.
Don't you think that representatives of those, even if they are om the opposite sides of the spectrum ( which might not turn out to be that opposite, if you put aside all the brainwashing from the LSM, which also serves Wall street, not the Main street) - they would be able to reform a tax code with closing the loopholes and find the means to cut the fat in form of waste to cherished corrupted contractors and so on, and so on, and so on.
I am more than sure that those who don't have strings attached and do not need to bring pork home - can actually do something for their constituents- even if they differ on gay marriage
but the shutdown is about defunding obamacare ... nothing more, nothing less. The dems, for all their warts, have been more than williig to discuss loopholes, but the TP House is opposed to any revenues .... simply because this is their chance to kill obamacare if not soc sec and medicare, though the TP members prolly need those entitlements.
Sure, the dems are willing to discuss anything that will bring in more for them to spend, they are not looking for tax reform that would maintain current funding levels and and make the tax system easier and more fare.