Frum - One Sensible Voice on the Right

David Frum follows up on his Waterloo column from yesterday and adds some credible ideas for the GOP going forward:

• Shifting the tax on high-end earners to another source of revenue; ie. carbon tax 
• Stop defending Employer-based care and embrace individual choice 
• Reduce regulation on the exchanges to promote more flexibility for the insurers to create affordable plans
• Move to end the small-business fines for payrolls of  > $500K, to promote competition among employers

These things, he says, are better alternatives to campaigning solely on the repeal of the measure as a whole.   He then goes on - brilliantly, I might add - to reprimand the conservative establishment for the vitriol and anger that has warped and negated any rational debate and discourse for the last 14 months: 

That platform is ambitious enough -- but also workable, enactable and likely to appeal to voters. After 18 months of overheated rhetoric, it's time at last for Republicans to get real.
I've been on a soapbox for months now about the harm that our overheated talk is doing to us. Yes, it mobilizes supporters -- but by mobilizing them with hysterical accusations and pseudo-information, overheated talk has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead.
Now the overheated talk is about to get worse. Over the past 48 hours, I've heard conservatives compare the House bill to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 -- a decisive step on the path to the Civil War. Conservatives have whipped themselves into spasms of outrage and despair that block all strategic thinking.

Maybe there's hope after all.