One more comment.      At end of article , quote"  We are all on the same team".    That is not apparent to me.
---- At age 9 and 10, father  was working double shifts , sleeping in truck, then working another shift in construction, to pay off mortgage  on farm bought on land contract in 1930s, early 1940s.      I worked  team of long legged, white mules,  Tom and Kate,  from same  Mother   2 years  separated. .  
Tom was perpetual balker , trying to disregard what I wanted.  
   -----  I learned that  a short board, shaped to fit my hand,      worked to wake him up..    And  a sharpened  points on pitchfork,   adjusted his speed,  to match with Kate.       Republicans may be on same team, but some need a flat board and pitchfork to adjust their  production.   We voters, tax-payers,  constituents need production,  not  deadlock.   And that also goes for Democrats,  or any other party members.