How To Fix The Country (that works)

Okay, I have seen a million answers on "how to fix the country" and none of them work (they run afoul of reality).  So I fixed the "hot to fix the country" for you.  You're welcome.
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It is easy and doesn't require much.  And, I got the idea from the Tea Party.
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So right now the Tea Party - a minority of the majority - calls the shots because John Boehner needs their vote to go forward.  And they won't vote on anything that is not crazy because they are crazy.
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But what is you pull together a non-crazy caucus.  Now you would need state delegations of both Republican and Democratic in order to nullify party threats.  Let's take California (for example).  CA has 53 House Members - 39 Democratic, 14 Republican of which 3 are in the Tea Party Caucus.  But if all the non-crazies got together, that is a 50 member strong group.  Say they bond with the mid-west group (again after pulling out their tea party crazies) you have a group that could force compromise.  As long as they all stuck together.  You do need a group that is ab out equal in Democrats and Republicans.
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Here are some quick numbers
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Current State:
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Tea Party has full leverage to force or stop the process.

But now - suppose some reasonable states agreed to work together.  Here I am using California (our state delegation already works as a group on water rights), and the defined Great Lakes states (Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin).  They agree - as a group - to force and support centrist policies. (and I assume a 10% or so lose of mainline republicans to the Tea Party side).
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The good news here is that it leaves Republicans in the majority still, but gives everyone a nice big centrist pot to move on.  Say you make some changes that all the centrists can compromise on.  Now you have this:
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There.  Now you have a group of centrists that want to play nice.  That is the carrot.  A group of Centrists can allow reasonable legislation to move over Tea Party Objections.  What is the stick?  It is not big enough of a group to run things, but it can stop anything.  It could either support a Democratic Speaker of the House or run their own and probably get Democratic support.
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The leverage the national parties have over the Representatives is the power of the purse.  But if the entire state delegation goes centrists - but stays Republican or Democratic - you can't try to get ALL of them turned out.  If everyone goes at once, then the party apparatus has to support you - OR run against all of you at once.  And no state's people like to be told what to do all at once.