Department of smartmaking

Republicans are stung by the criticism that they don't have any ideas and are in general wasting the time of America as a whole. So House Minority Whip Eric Cantor has decided to take a few weeks and come up with his masterstroke of an idea: a website that totally swears that Republicans have ideas. Pretty foolproof.

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor — the man Democrats dubbed “Dr. No” — is taking great pains these days to prove he has a raft of ideas of his own.

Stung by the Democratic barbs, the House’s No. 2 Republican is unveiling a “Solutions Center” on the Web to address simple questions Americans are asking themselves in the face of economic calamity: “How will I keep my job?” ... “How will I keep my house?” ... “How will I grow my savings?”

The goal is to answer the questions with Republican proposals that contrast starkly with legislation offered by President Barack Obama and his congressional allies.

Cantor acknowledges that Republicans “need to work to make sure the message gets out” around a still-popular president with a dramatic command of his bully pulpit.

Of course, being a completely empty solution, the article hailing it's unveiling is replete with bog standard phrases about the internet "making it possible to communicate cheaply and quickly, in a mass way" and other such phrases that would be cutting edge descriptions of the possibility of web communication....if this were 1996. All in all the website is little more than a vehicle for other Republican legislators and the public to get the same talking points in Text-O-Vision instead of from a weepy John Boehner.

Bold innovation, Cantor. Instead of us just thinking you have no ideas, you'll go to the trouble of collecting all those non-ideas on one website so we can know for sure. I'm sure repackaging old bullshit on a website no one will read will go a long way towards winning the policy debate. But hey, at least this was an idea. It's a start.