Posted on 09/28/2011 4:20:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Welcome to Democrat Fantasy Island, where the people who run our country have things exactly backwards. They may be short on brains, but they don’t seem to be short of ideas, especially bad ideas.
That’s the only explanation I have for the latest proposal from the brain trust that has brought you Recession Part Deux, Obamacare, Solyndra, Fast and Furious and Barney Frank.
The Democrat governor of North Carolina has suggested that the country dispense with Congressional elections for two years in order to help the “economic recovery.”
"You have to have more ability from Congress,” said Gov Bev Perdue, “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."
So not only should we suspend elections, she says, but we should also not hold any actions Congress might take- actions taken for our own good of course- against them.
Perdue’s campaign has been under investigation for illegal contributions and suspicious spending. No word from the governor’s office about whether she’d like to suspend the state’s campaign finance laws as a part of broader reform efforts.
And people wonder why there is a Tea Party movement?
Perdue’s office claims she was just using “hyperbole” to make a point.
But what Perdue doesn’t understand is that the rest of us already understood the joke, like two years ago. And we don’t think it’s funny.
Hyperbolic, however, is one way you might describe a government on overdrive under the Democrats.
When the real estate business suffered because the US government was originating half of the loans in the country, our Democrats, somehow, figured out how up that number to 95 percent of all mortgages- almost eliminating private mortgages altogether.
The result has been that housing prices have slumped to record lows with no real estate recovery in sight.
With healthcare expenses in runaway mode, in part because the government is the largest purchaser of healthcare in the country through Medicaid and Medicare, the Democrats passed as a solution a federal takeover of healthcare that includes rationed healthcare and increased costs.
When the banking industry grew too big and interconnected to safely operate in the country, these same genius Democrats decided to concentrate more money in fewer places and put the economy at greater risk.
And now when Congress and the president are plunging in the polls and people have lost faith in the government, the head of an entire state in our Union says that suspending elections would be a good way to combat loss of faith in government.
People may not like divided government, but things weren’t exactly going swimmingly when the Democrats had the majority. At least elections have stemmed the bleeding.
Part of our constitutional system includes having regular discussions about the direction of the country through congressional and other elections.
I understand that Democrats are very uncomfortable with the discussion these days. They should be. That’s what happens when you promote Fantasy Island policies that don’t work.
What is working is our constitutional system that allows voters to reign in policies and politicians who have no answers, no ideas and quite obviously, no clue
( 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.”)
Well No Bev, as an AMERICAN, I can not agree with you on that. In fact as a believer in the US Constitution, I think you should be arrested for sedition.
Bev Purdue... The prime example of why there should never be a party line check off box on the ballot.
(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.”)
Well No Bev, as an AMERICAN I can not agree with you on that. In fact as an AMERICAN I believe you should be arrested for sedition...
Well, in that case, I think Bev should be impeached, dragged bodily from the governor's mansion, tarred, feathered and run out of Raleigh on a rail. < /hyperbole >
Her constituents ought to suspend HER election, and immediately!
I have a better idea.
Make the democRAT National Committee go the way of the KKK. After all they are one and the same.
Well, she has a point. Elections are just too confusing for the little people, and we simply do not have the intellect to understand that the only way to prosperity is for the politicians to be given free reign to spend whenever and however they want, without restriction or accountability.
/s
Pols of all stripes really miss the old days, when, like rats and cockroaches they did the most damage,(or best work)in the dark where no one could see them.
Didn’t the governor of North Carolina swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution as well as the Constitution of North Carolina when she took her oath of office?
She either never read the constitution, or she wants to change it. But then she is a liberal
It probably meant nothing to her
Like all politicians; she LIED. What else is new?
The democRATs in both houses congress “are the problem” ,,, just goes to show how Marxist ms. perdue is . . .
No make elections simpler,just cast your ballot with “do you support the approved candidate of the party yes or no?”The voter would do this in front of 2 party approved election officials and of course you would have either an armed policeman or soldier close by watching to help maintain order.
Well, in that case, I think Bev should be impeached, dragged bodily from the governor’s mansion, tarred, feathered and run out of Raleigh on a rail. < /hyperbole >
To make a point of course...
As a Tarheel, I am embarrassed. She only won because the mentally lame and halt went for Zero in ‘08...
Bev Perdue is being held in check by a conservative majority in both the state house and senate. If a conservative governor can be elected(not Pat McCrory), we might consider moving back to North Carolina.
Governor Perdue drew the short straw and was chosen to be the first high ranking pol to get this notion in the air.
At first she will suffer the slings and arrows that are the fate of all pioneers. After an appropriate amount of time the matter will be re-thought by some “thoughtful” columnist, say an LTF(Little Tommy Friedman, or an E.J. Dionne Jr.
It will become something to consider, and then become a movement. Next thing you know we’ll have to be screaming like stuffed pigs trying to stop this move towards tyranny, at which time we will be called Hobbitts and hostage holders for wanting to stop a sensible measure that would move the country forward. Its only a temporary suspension. And afterall,we only we to create “jobs” (emphasis on the b.s.) for the American people. For the children.
Governor Perdue drew the short straw and was chosen to be the first high ranking pol to get this notion in the air.
At first she will suffer the slings and arrows that are the fate of all pioneers. After an appropriate amount of time the matter will be re-thought by some “thoughtful” columnist, say an LTF(Little Tommy Friedman, or an E.J. Dionne Jr.
It will become something to consider, and then become a movement. Next thing you know we’ll have to be screaming like stuffed pigs trying to stop this move towards tyranny, at which time we will be called Hobbitts and hostage holders for wanting to stop a sensible measure that would move the country forward. Its only a temporary suspension. And afterall,we only we to create “jobs” (emphasis on the b.s.) for the American people. For the children.
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