Posted on 09/29/2011 4:51:32 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Despite claims that she was joking, North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is "dead serious" with her suggestion that the 2012 congressional elections be suspended, according to radio host Rush Limbaugh, and at least one group is now calling for the Democrat's impeachment.
"No, she wasn't joking," Limbaugh said today. "If they could get away with canceling elections, they would do it. That is who the Democrats of today are. That's what the American left is all about."
During a speech yesterday in Cary, N.C., Perdue stated:
"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. 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. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It's a little bit more contentious now but it's not impossible to try to do what's right in this state. You want people who don't worry about the next election."
Perdue spokeswoman Chris Mackey, told the Daily Caller that it was a joke and "hyperbole."
"This is not off the cuff, she had to think about this," Limbaugh said. "She wants to cancel the elections because 2012 could dwarf 2010 in terms of Republican victory, Democrat loss. If the election were in one month, two months, the Democrat Party would end up with the smallest number of elected representatives in the House of Representatives maybe in history. That's what they all know."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Peter Orszag calls for less democracy, more rule by elite technocrats
Purdue, the NYT, Orszag....all just kidding.
Not only was the statement not off the cuff. The idea did not originate in the limited space of Perdue’s gray matter. This came from higher up the food chain.
So, to everyone that has ridiculed us for saying that it is not an automatic given that we will have elections in 2012, think again.
Think of Hugo Chavez’s mini me in the WH.
It works so well in Cuba...
The PRIVATE POLLING must be horrific for Democrats.
I think we need to push veto proof majorities.
This is not the first time Leftists/Democrats have suggested abolishing or suspending elections!
And what follows the suspension of elections? DICTATORSHIP: Joe Stalin! Mao Tse Tung! Fidel Castro! Pol Pot! Idi Amin! Kim Jon Il! Papa Doc Duvalier! Adolf Hitler! Tiberius! Nero! Commodus! Caligula! The list goes on and on!
I don't know if Beverly Perdue is some sort of crypto-radical-Marxist or just plain stupid--but she should be impeached!
This is not the first time Leftists/Democrats have suggested abolishing or suspending elections!
And what follows the suspension of elections? DICTATORSHIP: Joe Stalin! Mao Tse Tung! Fidel Castro! Pol Pot! Idi Amin! Kim Jon Il! Papa Doc Duvalier! Adolf Hitler! Tiberius! Nero! Commodus! Caligula! The list goes on and on!
I don't know if Beverly Perdue is some sort of crypto-radical-Marxist or just plain stupid--but she should be impeached!
Your equation of the U.S. with Weimar Germany is duly noted. And laughable.
More and more we hear the Left calling for communism. They also advertise that they have progressed beyond constitution. We have commie CEO’s praising the government of China as being more business friendly because it is efficient and consistent. It’s not rocked by power of voters. This is really creepy.
I never heard an elected official suggest that they were installing communism. They did it in “living constitutional” judicial rulings and we knew they were doing it. But they did not dare to advertise what they were doing and announce the end of the constitutional Republic. Now they do.
Like what, Beverly?
Sending dissenters off to "Re-education camps"?
NationalizinG all private property?
Abolishing all future elections?
Appointing somebody like YOU "President for Life?
AT BEST--GIVING HER THE BENEFIT OF EVERY DOUBT--BEVERLY PERDUE IS TOO STUPID TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE!
If Rush knows that then why is he worrying about it?
This could be dismissed as just more crack-pot blather from Leftists and stupid Democrat politicians IF:
This were not such serious stuff!
And--
This were not the unspoken, underlying, fundamental belief of Leftists and Democrat politicians and their henchperson in The Propaganda Machine (the Mainstream News Media)!
Your equivocation that a dictator would follow a Constitution is duly noted. And laughable.
during WW II didn’t democrats push to suspend elections because they wanted to keep FDR? (for new deal socialism)
OK Einstein, do yourself a favor and ask those still with us who lived it. My mother became a teenager in Nazi Germany. She would simply say that you are an arrogant fool. Do I need to get any more specific?
Please. I ask you do.
I want to watch Sojoco squirm as he is skewered.
Obama is the most inept individual to hold the Oval Office since Jimmy Carter. And his administration is the original gang that can't shoot straight. And you're making them out to be the reincarnation of Machiavelli.
Tell you what. Bookmark this thread, and the day Obama assumes dictatorial powers you can come back and say you told me so.
You need to say “sarc” Laz.
If you had told me fifteen years ago that Federal agents would be stationed at airports to sexually molest grandmas, children and the handicapped before they could board a plane, I would have laughed.
The constitution would never allow people being searched without a warrent and the American people would never pose naked for the Federal government and permit agents to systematically rub their boobs and crotches so they could use transportation.
Actually, I hold the opposite view that you assume I do. I had a tagline for the longest time that read, "If Hitler had been as lazy as Obama, the 1940's would have been a pretty nice decade."
However, your assumption that it CANNOT happen due to the Constitution is flawed in the extreme. In the course of history, many documents have been brushed aside, or quick laws passed to overturn them, when a dictator moves to rule. *That* is what I am pointing out.
Those who have been here a while, know: The fact that my screen name is Lazamataz is its’ own sarcasm-tag.
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