Stan and I are in agreement on this one. Commissions rarely solve problems in Washington. They're usually created to buy votes to do the very thing that the commission was set up to stop.
Most commissons do important, but obscure, work that Congress doesn't want to take the blame for. Just listing and briefly describing currently active U.S. commissions takes 67 pages in this Congressional Research Service report. Before you look, can you name even one commission or describe what any commissions do?
That having been said, I look back fondly on the Kerrey-Danforth Commission mainly because it was one of the few commissions that actually attempted to "tell it like it is." A good friend, who I helped get his job with Senator Danforth, became the Commission's Chief of Staff. They did a very thorough, timely, and expert job of reviewing the unsustainable path of entitlement spending, and they clearly presented that in their report, which I am proud to say, I still have on my bookshelf!