Posted on 09/27/2011 2:01:44 PM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
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 and 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. “Now is a time when politicians need to be held accountable more than ever,” North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood said in an email to The Daily Caller. “To suspend an election would be removing the surest mechanism that citizens have to hold politicians accountable: The right to vote.”
Laugh
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Thanks.
She needs to be charged with treason, arrested, tossed in a back of a 1960 Ford Galaxie police car and then book her. These people from Obama on down are getting out of line.
Love your diatribe there, it sort of has a Dr. Seuss click yo it. Too bad Thurl Ravenscroft passed away, I’d love to hear it put to song with him singing it like he did with The Grinch. Let me add that we used to say when we were teenagers, “you (you as in governor Bev Purdue) are so dumb that if you got any dumber, you’d be in a coma.”
Hey Bev, if your hope fails and people don't agree with you, and they hold elections anyway, what, as Governor, are you willing to do to implement your suspension of elections?
You gonna crack some eggs to make an omelette, bitch?
If trying the same failed approach again and again expecting different results is considered insanity,
What is this??? Insane desparation?
I sincerely hope she is literally laughed out of office... SOON!
What a surprise they are going to have when they find out that no one took an oath to their ‘Living Constitution’.
RTP has the highest number of PhDs per capita in the entire country. Does that answer your question? What they lack in common sense, they make up in worthless diplomas.
Suspending the 2012 elections is my greatest fear right now. He is falling so far behind, that no elections may be the only way for him to stay in power. If he does, what happens next is my next greatest fear. I hope that if this was “a trial balloon”, then hopefully they saw that it wouldn’t work. I have a feeling I need to stock up on Tums. :-(
Treason gets thrown around too casually around here, but in the case of 'Fast and Furious' and 'Gunwalker' you are absolutely correct. Brigandage is the land equivalent of piracy. Pirates and brigands were 'the enemy of mankind' in international law at the time of ratification of the Constitution; Congress thus need not declare war against drug cartels for them to be enemies of the United States. By aiding and comforting them, these federal agents have committed treason, for which they can be found guilty "on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
Can someone please FReepmail me this See you next Tuesday’s phone number or #Twitter so I can call all day tomorrow telling her that she is a Fascistic Bitch?
The prostate theory of one hour meetings (really 50 to 55 minutes) fits with my potty training theory of the way things work in the world: boys have to aim, be in control, and are exposed to the world. We women sit down, relax, and are naturally protected and covered. It’s handy in the wild, but not so much in civilization.
Translation: “We’re gonna get trounced if there is an election, so let’s stay in office by any means necessary.”
North Carolina citizens & voters!!! Remove Governor Perdue from office immediately, either by forcing her to resign or impeach her over the next few days. This “Dictator” rant did not come from her. This is the thoughts & evil doings of POTUS Barack Hussein Obama. Your freedom and liberty is at stake. You better damn well take harsh action, like right now!!! This radical rave cannot stand for one minute. DUMP Gov. Perdue, right now!!!
I just realized that my second sentence didn’t make any sense. I meant that she could say something even dumber, like that they should bring back slavery in NC, and it still wouldn’t be an impeachable offense.
People in NC have been doing strange political things since the great Helms retired. They will never again find anyone of his caliber.
People in NC have been voting Democrat for governor nearly as long as the Kentuckians.
And Peter Orzag was just “Joking!” when he said “We need less Democracy to counter gridlock”, right?
Liberalism has ALWAYS been a religion of regressive totalitarianism. Why does this surprise anyone?
“Some of us have been called tinfoil hat wearing paranoids when suggesting elections could be “suspended” aka “eliminated”. “Never gonna happen...””
The left made up elaborate fantasies about BUSH suspending elections, and yet, here is a Democrat actually talking about doing it.
OH WAIT..
She “Joked” About doing it...
Can’t we at least burn down the Riechstag first?
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