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.”
I suspect that they know. I likewise strongly suspect that they don't care, since who is going to bring them to heel?
the infowarrior
The GOP needs poll watchers in all the states that require no ID to vote.
Oh my. Someone actually said this out loud.
she should not be in public office.
Good post!
Anyone with 3 functioning brain cells should be able to see the Rats are out to destroy America.
It makes for an interesting legal question...is the calling for the suspension of elections, which is a calling for the suspension of the US Constitution, an act of treason, or protected political speech?
What is an example of treason, so that I may know that this is not some theoretical construct that has no specific context in the real world.
Is the governments incompetent and profligate overspending the kind of national emergency that means we no longer have rights under the Constitution?
How can this be a facetious comment from a person in such high station? Are we being conditioned? or is this a trial balloon to see if it may work?
This person should be roundly condemned.
Thanks! Of course my state has no I’D requirement.
or Illinois Quinn..
Bad cosmetic surgery. You should’ve seen her before it settled down, she looked like a lopsided gecko in a blonde wig.
Add in the fact that she sounds just like Hank Hill’s niece when she talks ... good grief. What an embarassment, she makes her predecessor look good by comparison, and that’s a hard thing to do.
Bev, please go on a national bus tour with your message!
How did this little communist win an election in North Carolina of all places ?
I think a lot of New Yorkers have moved there. Remember this is from the same state that elected John Edwards.
There are rumors she will run for POTUS.Challenge Obama or wait?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bev_Perdue
For that I have no answer. Indictments were swirling around her predecessor, she was at least peripherally engaged in questionable matters herself. She won with the thinnest of margins.
When ACORN and moveon.org posted jobs in local papers for ten dollars an hour to drive people to vote give them laptops to vote a straight party D ticket.Obama landed in Fayetteville and overnight people could vote two weeks before the election as many times as they want for democrats.It was also noted that weeks before Obama’s election he visited a small mom and pop diner in Fayetteville for a fake photo op and was told by the owners to leave.
Is there video of Perdue suggesting that the next election be canceled? I would like to see it to tell if she was joking or not.
Obama will leave office is disgrace and shame.. and thats what he deserves..
Yeah, Beverly, it’s only worked for 240 years. It’s time for a change...perhaps you should resign.
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