View Full Version : Dem Guv Calls for Suspending Democracy to Focus on Jobs
lol Trial balloon for the POTUS elections?
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/27/nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs/
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.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/27/nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs/#ixzz1ZBmhZznN
Hey, it's Bev Perdue.
Every once in a while she escapes the plantaion without her meds.
rubberneck
09-27-2011, 15:28
WTF? Has that dingbat ever read the constitution? If she's cool with suspending Article 1 Section 2 of the Constitution for a couple of years do I get to do likewise with the 16th Amendment? :rolleyes:
This stuff is picking up steam. Use your imagination.
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/94940/peter-orszag-democracy?page=0,0&passthru=MGU3YjMxNDdlN2UyMjM2MTNhZGZjNDE2MjE2NjE2N j
In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams wrote that “there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” That may read today like an overstatement, but it is certainly true that our democracy finds itself facing a deep challenge: During my recent stint in the Obama administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget, it was clear to me that the country’s political polarization was growing worse—harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing. If you need confirmation of this, look no further than the recent debt-limit debacle, which clearly showed that we are becoming two nations governed by a single Congress—and that paralyzing gridlock is the result.
So what to do? To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.
Hopefully, NC will be rid of this stupid wench at the next election.
USANick7
09-28-2011, 07:50
This stuff is picking up steam. Use your imagination.
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/94940/peter-orszag-democracy?page=0,0&passthru=MGU3YjMxNDdlN2UyMjM2MTNhZGZjNDE2MjE2NjE2N j
In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams wrote that “there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” That may read today like an overstatement, but it is certainly true that our democracy finds itself facing a deep challenge: During my recent stint in the Obama administration as director of the Office of Management and Budget, it was clear to me that the country’s political polarization was growing worse—harming Washington’s ability to do the basic, necessary work of governing. If you need confirmation of this, look no further than the recent debt-limit debacle, which clearly showed that we are becoming two nations governed by a single Congress—and that paralyzing gridlock is the result.
So what to do? To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.
"Political gridlock in the United States is not an American problem, it is an American achievement." George Will
The last thing I want is more bureaucrats dictating policy. I don't think the problem is government gridlock, its that the federal government is involved in far more than is allowed constitutionally.
Peregrino
09-28-2011, 18:51
"Political gridlock in the United States is not an American problem, it is an American achievement." George Will
The last thing I want is more bureaucrats dictating policy. I don't think the problem is government gridlock, its that the federal government is involved in far more than is allowed constitutionally.
That government which governs least, governs best. The only thing congress should ever agree on is a declaration of war.
GratefulCitizen
09-28-2011, 19:31
Gridlock is a good thing.
I'd vote for a presidential candidate who ran on a simple platform:
Veto everything that isn't a tax cut or a repeal of an existing law.
monsterhunter
09-29-2011, 01:53
Isn't she supposed to burn down the Reichstag before making a statement like this?
Isn't she supposed to burn down the Reichstag before making a statement like this?
lolol Roger :D
There's a lot of disgruntled, potentially hungry folks in this world.
As usual, the statists (the more government is always the answer folks) are pushing the envelope because, as we know, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
USA’s numbers for the years 2007-2010 are in this chart, too.
INTERACTIVE: Europe's unemployment rate, by country
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/europe-unemployment/