I love this suggestion from Carl Cannon, articulated at RealClearPolitics. Play the charity baseball game on Thursday as scheduled. However:
Here’s a modest idea. Instead of Democrats competing against Republicans, how about choosing up sides the way American kids do on the schoolyard? Each team captain would pick a player, in order, and they must alternate picks, one Republican, then one Democrat. Don’t play against the other party, play with them—for this one night.
The Congress used to be a very collegial place. It should be a very collegial place in public as well as in private. Casting the disagreements between Democrats and Republicans as the Final Battle between good and evil may garner a few votes in your district or encourage some highly partisan donors from outside your district to contribute to your re-election campaign but it isn’t doing or facilitating the doing of the people’s business.
It would be a great time to do it. I read that the record is 39-39 with one tie. If this had happened sooner, people could have organized a campaign offering to contribute to the charities the game benefits if they would do it this way.