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Home Front: Politix
September 27, 2011 NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs
2011-09-27
As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending congressional elections for the next couple of years.

"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover," Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, North Carolina, according to the Raleigh News & Observer. "I really hope that someone can agree with me on that."

Perdue said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy. "You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things," Perdue said.

North Carolina Republicans immediately scoffed at Perdue's proposal, pointing out to her that elections hold politicians accountable for their actions.
Remember that governor. Elections hold politicians responsible, and you are next. Try to sidestep your bosses and you will find yourself on the wrong end of a rail.
Posted by:DarthVader

#20  More like a new sewage canal in Rafah
Posted by: European Conservative   2011-09-27 23:14  

#19  Looks like a whole lot of skinktrap for that there "justice", whatever that is.
Posted by: newc   2011-09-27 23:14  

#18  Yes but the serious bug infestation is being taking care of as we speak.
Posted by: European Conservative   2011-09-27 22:59  

#17  #5 New Delhi? I'm envious, Secret Asian Man

Yes, TW, lovely New Delhi India. Still have another 5 weeks to go.

Back on topic, sort of. I see JUSTICE gnawed through his restraints again.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man (New Delhi)   2011-09-27 22:58  

#16  From the people who came up with 'Peoples Democratic Republic' which were neither democratic nor a republic. But hey, they're progressives, they simply 'reinterpret' the Newspeak language.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-09-27 22:19  

#15  
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-09-27 22:13  

#14  So when do the people march on Raleigh? Anyone? Bueller?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-09-27 22:11  

#13  Grounds for impeachment / removal from office.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-09-27 22:01  

#12  And they were Democrats, as well.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-09-27 21:06  

#11  Not surprising that the Democrat Governor of one of the states in the Confederacy suggested overthrowing democracy: that what her ancestors did in North Carolina from 1861-1865.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-09-27 21:06  

#10  That corrupt (democrat) enterprise needs to be purged from all levels of government before it conditionally revolts against the Citizens of this country. The leviathan will have nothing but political hacks in it bay the time this A-hole President is finished.

It is going to be dangerous and they will be treasonous. I have never seen it this bad in my lifetime.

Our governor is just one that has such thinking among armies squirreled away in Federal and State Government jobs.

Most are "party members".
Posted by: newc   2011-09-27 20:43  

#9  A 'let's suspend elections' joke told by an elected official is about as funny as a bomb joke on an air plane.

Too bad that it isn't as illegal.
Posted by: Snong Forkbeard7309   2011-09-27 20:16  

#8  Well, less democrats would certainly be a help.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-09-27 19:56  

#7  And Peter Orzag said we need less democracy in order to get things done.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2011-09-27 19:50  

#6  Sure, just a joke. You won't mind Beverly if we run your 'joke' in every ad next year, will you?

It's very clear that the Democrats are terrified of being held accountable for what they've done the last three years.
Posted by: Steve White   2011-09-27 19:45  

#5  New Delhi? I'm envious, Secret Asian
Man!

Back on topic: the only punishment needed is to vote them out of office as soon as the opportunity presents itself. The next few years are going to be even more interesting than the last several...
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-09-27 19:12  

#4  I have an amusing notion. Why don't we just round up all these Leftists and hang them from the nearest light poles. Tar and feathers first...of course.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man (New Delhi)   2011-09-27 19:05  

#3  Some "joke". She's the headline on Drudge.
Be prepared for a very busy few days, guvnah...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-09-27 18:45  

#2  Ha ha ha. Just a joke. "Hyperbole", if you will...

Later Tuesday afternoon, Perdue's office clarified the remarks: "Come on," said spokeswoman Chris Mackey in a statement. "Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of whatÂ’s best for the people they serve."

Ha ha ha...move it along, nuthin to see here...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-09-27 18:36  

#1  I suspect that the White House is behind this, as a trial balloon, because at an almost identical time, Peter Orszag, former OMB director under Obama, now an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (SPECTRE), and a Vice Chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, came out with a similar opinion in an op-ed in The Atlantic.

It also means that the WH thinks that the Democrats, and them in particular, are going to just get butchered in the next election.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-09-27 18:02  

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