Posted on 09/27/2011 2:06:34 PM PDT by rawhide
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.”
Just goes to show ya that even the Tarheels can elect a DOOFUS. Sheesh.
Ha I beat ya be 3 min+
This Babe is seriously delusional. Does she propose to amend the constitution to accomplish this folly?
I'd suggest the legislature meet and find her a new home somewhere else.
“we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover”
Might as well ask me to figure quadratic equations off the top of my head. They don’t know how to do that, sir.
Good idea, Bev. An even better idea would be suspending the PRESIDENTIAL election. Seriously, WTH is wrong with these people.
Nahh. She probably thinks it can be done by executive decree.
Or possibly just vote to extend their own tenure, like the Long Parliament of England till Cromwell told them to go home.
imbecile
Good way to start a second armed American Revolution. WHAT AN UNBELIEVABLE IDIOT!!!
Ah...the governor was tired of electd office, anyway.
This is from the Onion, right?
How could anyone be so out of touch with reality as to suggest something like this seriously?
There was a time in this country when no public figure would have dared to publicly call for abandoning the constitution. It would have been front-page news, and no politician would survive the scandal.
Now its common among the current crop of Democrat politicians in the White House, Congress and the State House to openly dismiss it.
Unbelievable.
That was my second thought. Either she doesn’t like her job, or her village has lost its idiot.
A glimpse inside the criminal mind.
I wonder if Obama put her up to this. He’s always complaining about messy democracy, and I’m sure he doesn’t want to face reelection either.
Normally, I try to never resort to needless name-calling and personal attacks, but who dropped this idiot on her head and how did she ever become governor?
This woman is an absolute imbecile who obviously has no knowledge of the Constitution or the country she lives in.
What a T-TOTAL DUMB A$$.
Sorry for the curse word. I just had to blow off steam.
OK. All better now.
This ought to be grounds to remove her from office. She is clearly unfit to hold a democratically elected position.
If NC Gov. Beverly Perfue was afraid of losing her office in the next election she no longer has to worry - she just just ensured her final day.
UPDATE 5:17 p.m.:
Perdue’s press secretary, Chris Mackey, claims the Governor was joking when she made the comment.
“Come on…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 what’s best for the people they serve,” Mackey said in an email to TheDC.
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