Bev Perdue suggests suspending elections?
By JR Hoeft | Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 | PolicySo, those of us that live in southern Virginia have a strange affinity for our neighbor: North Carolina.
They never move out of the left lane. They pay our tolls at the border. They sell fireworks that are illegal in Virginia. They absorb hurricanes heading right at us.
All in all, it’s generally a friendly relationship. Just as long as it mostly stays south of the border.
But North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue has made about the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard from an American politician. Apparently the governor has “suggested” that the president suspend elections for two years to allow Congress to focus on fixing the economy!
“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,” Gov. Bev Perdue, a Democrat, said, according to a report by the Raleigh News & Observer. “You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”
(h/t: Fox News)
With all due respect, are you out of your flippin’ mind, Governor!
Or is this just a way to get attention – or worse, an idea for the White House to actually consider?
With Americans deeply distrustful of our government to the tune of 81 percent, this sort of comment doesn’t help.
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9 Responses to "Bev Perdue suggests suspending elections?"
Saw this at Market-Ticker. Absolutely amazing. We should accept her words at face value, though that will not be the most common reaction. Her words are too scary for most to contemplate and will therefore be dismissed as a joke (which her staff later claimed they were).
Most would be wrong. These things are trail balloons, just like the talk that occasionally surfaces about “saving” 401(k) accounts by converting them to “safe” annuities based on even “safer” Treasuries…
Actually, Jamie, it is a trial balloon. Trail balloons are the ones realtors put up on signs leading to an open house.
But I agree with your intent: is there any better indication that the Democrats are running scared (or is that running scarred) with the prospect of 2012 being 2010 squared (or squired)?
It’s a trial balloon for 2032 while the 401k is a trial balloon for 2024. You’ve got to give credit to leftists – they think in decades. Like termites they just keep chewing and chewing and prefer to do it out of sight.
However nearer to the now, it’s a 2011 cry of despair and anger. I’ve talked to enough leftists to know that they regard elections as an unpleasant and demeaning process for these saints laboring among the hoi polloi.
She might as well be governor in Bolivia or Venezuela; Morales and Chavez would love to hear things like that.
If indeed she was serious (really?) she sounds a lot like Adolph Hitler. That whack-job from Paris who burned down the Reichstag would heartily approve. So would Adolph.
Since she is up in 2012, too, I bet there’s a bit of self-interest in this statement.
HisRic,
Scarred and squared.
Brian,
Think you could have fun skewering Perdue in a 2012 ad with this one?
She is busy converting the traditional pot and moonshine business to crystal meth in her new jobs stimulus program for NC and she sampled the new “blue” product prior to that news conference.
Hey! We tarheels love Bev! I think we’ve all tossed out something like her remark to the winds. Whatever makes those legislatures think they deserve re-election when they can’t get the job done. I suggest they forgo much sideline activities and do the job they were elected to or forgo the pay!
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