SENATE CANDIDATE suggests moving our federal capital from Washington. I'm generally supportive of the idea, but I wouldn't wish D.C. on the citizens of Nebraska.

Instead I'd recommend an idea based on the Neal Stephenson novel Snow Crash, where the nuclear carrier U.S.S. Enterprise has been purchased by a media magnate after the United States government collapsed and serves as his base of operations and the center of a floating city in the Pacific known as "The Raft".

Recommission and refuel the Enterprise (yes, I know it's too late, but the thought survives) and move it 800 miles to sea. Let it hold the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, a few of their retainers and allow it to dock only for a 30-day period ending on election day every two years.

Government of the people, by the people, and for away from the people.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention a potential added benefit ... Washington D.C. can be turned into a nature preserve (or a National Zoo).