Good ideas, bad ideas

• An example of a good idea: streamlining the forms required for employing part-time help, so that it's easier for a higher percentage of people to do everything "by the books." I suspect that exhaustion at the prospect of more paperwork dissuades more folks than does some kind of desire to cheat the system.
  
  
• An example of a [tragically] bad idea: turning to a vacuous media creation for input on serious topics of acute national interest/importance. It's a statement of how desperately the GOP is flailing for direction in the aftermath of their 8-year disaster and its electoral consequences...