At this point, I think the GOP club is the one that should go, if any. I mean, who comprises the GOP club these days? Mittens, McAmnesty, Murkyowski...
We use to post excerpts of writings and speeches of leading professional news-makers, and then follow up lively discussions.
Now there's too much posting of links to videos without posting an excerpt of the video and an opinion on it. It's getting to be just too much bla, bla bla.
One solution is to insist that only articles are posted that can be joined without viewing the link to the video. To top it off, charge a fee for every post, ~5$, until the poster reaches a deductible amount. This would get rid of a lot of junk on FR.
As Rush likes to say ' news businesses fail because of lack of content'. And content is what is lacking at FR. We had it and lost it.