Yeah, Beverly, it’s only worked for 240 years. It’s time for a change...perhaps you should resign.
Sure thing, except there is that little matter of the Constitution. She’ll need to get an Amendment passed first.
If they actually did this,,, we instantly have the right to violently overthrow them.
Yeah, Democrats are always calling for a “temporary” suspension of democracy as a means to “fix” the destruction wrought by their economy-killing policies.
Great idea! Gee, why didn’t the rest of us think of that? What economic insight. Wow, maybe we could be more like England or better yet become another Russia, or maybe even be like the USSR! Sounds great. Serfdom isn’t too far away. Looks like BHO has us well down that road already. Not far to go now.
Related thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2784596/posts
Was she “joking”? Doubt it. Can you make a case for 4-years terms for the US House? Sure. But they aren’t and elections can’t be suspended. We had them during the Civil War!
I think we should have EARLY ELECTIONS in NC. Get rid of this hag a year early!!!
Today, Peter Orszag, Obama’s former Budget Director, said pretty much the same thing:
“Why we need less democracy”
“In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.”
Bev Perdue is a lame duck and she knows it. The “Obama primary challenger” feint is designed to keep her approval numbers from falling to zero and to keep her in the game.
BTW, she had her Chapel Hill house on the market for about $2.1 million and it recently was pulled off of the market. Who knows, she may be planning to move back to Chapel Hill in 15 months...
Serious question here. Is she retarded?
From the text I read this was no joke, except in the sense that it was a laughably stupid idea in the mouth of someone who never should have come within a country mile of an elective office, much less that of a state Governor. A government that so fears its constituents that it will not allow them to hold an election is a government that needs to be fired, or to be fired at, their choice.
Can’t we at least burn down the Riechstag first?
The name “Purdue” means “Damned” or “Lost” in French.
I think the Freepers that have speculated that she was fed this line are probably correct. Normally, the ditz seems to confine herself to state matters. By specifying “congress” (and not for example state house or state senate) she clearly stuck her nose into things that she a) doesn’t know anything about b) normally never deals with c) has no constitutional authority over.
Based on these considerations I would tend to agree with those that say that she was told to say this. The speech was in Cary, which is where I live.
Actually, there’s a rather simple rejoinder to this idiot crypto-fascist’s remark: “sure, Bev, we’ll suspend Congressional elections - right after we Republicans finish cementing in our majority in Congress.”
Even a liberal should be able to grasp the consequences of dictatorial government under those circumstances.
suspend elections? Heck,,let’s hold them EARLIER than scheduled!
We will have ALL elections as scheduled.
Period.
End of discussion.
Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid!!!!
There’s not a lib in or out of power who wouldn’t want this when a DemonRat has the presidency and at least the House or Senate majority. I’m sure they were staying up all night trying to figure this out when they had Zero and both houses of Congress. What they really want is an apartheid govt. where the religious, the business owners, and political conservatives are treated exactly like the Jews in nazi Germany.
What the liberal on the street doesn’t understand is that, the day this happens, they’ll be considered livestock, too, and the death squad is just around the corner for their family.
The liberals think that they’ll suddenly be somebody, get invited to cocktail parties at the White House, and be showered with the money stolen from the jailed undesirables. Many many loyal nazis and their families wound up in the death camps for “crimes” as petty as a single family member failing to give the nazi salute.
This dolt gives the Perdue chick a bad name. It makes absolute sense to this vacuous excuse for a human being to leave the people in place who maneuvered into this house of horrors.
I’m ever so glad I moved to SC last September. NC was in the running. But only if my career soldier son would retire in the Fayetteville area (Ft Bragg). Not likely.
Impeachment anyone?
RAT bastard socialist demoRATs, liberals, unions, the 98% blacks who voted for 0dumb0.... all of these groups ALWAYS seem to love the idea of socialist tyranny & totalitarian rule. They have yet to identify any blood thirsty socialist ruler, past, present or future, that they do not love. Can’t we just get rid of all these socialist demoRAT imbeciles? Ship ‘em to their peoples paradises of Cuba, North Korea & Venezuala, and NEVER let them come back into the USA for even a visit.