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    NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs
    Published: 3:58 PM 09/27/2011 | Updated: 6:11 PM 09/27/2011
    By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller
    Bev Perdue | NC Governor | Suspend Elections | Jobs | The Daily Caller
    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, N.C., according to the Raleigh News & 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.”

    UPDATE 5:17 p.m.:

    Perdue press secretary Chris Mackey claims the governor was joking when she made the comment.

    “Come on … Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of what’s best for the people they serve,” Mackey said in an email to TheDC.

    Read more: Bev Perdue | NC Governor | Suspend Elections | Jobs | The Daily Caller
    To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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    How about if we suspend congress for a few terms? Better yet, suspend state legislature too. California legislature has turned out nothing but shit ever since it went from part time to full time. There is actually a bill suggesting that a home buyer be mandated to keep the service of the gardener of the previous owner as a way to maintain employment numbers. How the hell did anyone come up with that crap?
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    • #3
      Originally posted by gunnut View Post
      How about if we suspend congress for a few terms? Better yet, suspend state legislature too. California legislature has turned out nothing but shit ever since it went from part time to full time. There is actually a bill suggesting that a home buyer be mandated to keep the service of the gardener of the previous owner as a way to maintain employment numbers. How the hell did anyone come up with that crap?
      You can always tell the prev owners to fire the gardener if they wanna sell the house.
      No such thing as a good tax - Churchill

      To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.

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      • #4
        I hear you gunnut. It's like they are bending over backwards to do everything EXCEPT the right thing. Pure idiocy. I say fire them all and give the world a chance to find out just how well we can get along without them. And save a few bucks along the way.

        The Politicians, that is. :Dancing-Banana:
        Don't listen to me, I'm a wack job.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Laser View Post
          I hear you gunnut. It's like they are bending over backwards to do everything EXCEPT the right thing. Pure idiocy. I say fire them all and give the world a chance to find out just how well we can get along without them. And save a few bucks along the way.

          The Politicians, that is. :Dancing-Banana:
          Damn lefties
          No such thing as a good tax - Churchill

          To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.

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          • #6
            Where's that damn death penalty when you need it. :)
            Don't listen to me, I'm a wack job.

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