[KeyLargo]

NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs

Posted By Matthew Boyle On 3:58 PM 09/27/2011 @ 3:58 PM In DC Exclusives,DC Exclusives - Original Reporting,Featured,Politics,Yahoo! News | 68 Comments

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, N.C., according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.”

http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/27/nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs/?print=1

[tiki]

If the government can’t come up with enough generators to run an election then we definitely need new government.

[j_k_l]

Could Next Week’s Election Be Delayed By Sandy?

No.

[bigbob]

Title 3 chapter 1 USC...Just ignore that, I guess...

[lurk]

Sounds like a recipe for vote fraud.

A few years back an urban group spontaneously asked a St Louis judge to keep the polls open in da Hood until 10 because it was allegedly very busy. Miraculously that district delivered big for the D candidate.

This election should not be delayed for anything.

[txrefugee]

Absolutely not. There is no Constitutional reason for delaying the election, and Obummer better not trying doing it by an executive decree.

[PGR88]

As Mark Steyn has said - a future dictator of the United States will never need to declare martial law. He will only need to declare a weather emergency to keep everyone indoors, and Americans wouldn’t venture out until they are told its all clear.

I am in Upstate NY - and for a week, all we heard about was how bad the storm would be for us, even though we aren’t close to the ocean.

All we had was a some moderately heavy rain for a few hours, that’s all - and yet the hype convinced everyone to close the schools, cancel all events, and scare everyone into buying up supplies.

[Logical me]

Communists can come up with the damned stupid reason for winning this communists black Muslim another four. No delay. Romney to win.

[autumnraine]

That’s a joke, right? She did not really say that did she????

[Darren McCarty]

No, no, no, and no. It won't happen. They didn't end when the "Germans" bombed Pearl Harbor.

We had elections in:

1812 - during the war.
1856-1868 - Bleeding Kansas, the Civil War/War Between The States/War of Northern Aggression, reconstruction.
1932-1936 - Depression
1944 - World War II
1968 - 60's unrest, RFK, Nam
1972 - Nam
1980 - Iran
2004 - Iraq
2008 - Financial disaster

What's a natural disaster compared to these where a change in power dramatically affects matters.

[2nd Amendment]

The high waters have prevented some democratic voters from getting from the graveyards to the polling stations. An additional week will enable poll workers (aka black panthers) to escort the dead to the appropriate voting location.

[Political Junkie Too]

A particular state might be able to delay its election by a few days, but they still must report their Electors to Congress on the same day in December.

It's unlikely that any states that might swing the election will defer their elections due to the emergency.

-PJ