The first gimmick was the National Council for a New America, spearheaded by House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, which would engage the nation in a dialog about Republican ideas. Despite having been launched to significant fanfare, the NCNA has been unceremoniously scrapped, having developed exactly zero ideas.

Now they have launched the YouCut project. Republicans pick government programs they don’t like, and invite the public to vote on which ones they want to see eliminated. GOP lawmakers then try to cut the “winning” programs, responding to public demand. The YouCut project ended up targeting a bipartisan jobs program, which made the whole initiative look foolish.

With less than six months before national elections, the party that intends to take back the majority needs help from the public figuring out its own agenda?