 [News Observer] Speaking to a Cary rotary club today, N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending Congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.
Question: how can you tell when a Democrat is joking about suspending elections?
Answer: you can't. |
"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," Perdue said. "You want people who don't worry about the next election."
| In a completely unrelated and unscripted op-ed piece in The New Republic, President Obama's former budget director Peter Orszag calls for less democracy as a way out of our republic's 'gridlock'. |
The comment -- which came during a discussion of the economy -- perked more than a few ears. It's unclear whether Perdue, a Democrat, is serious -- but her tone was level and she asked others to support her on the idea.
| Remember when the progressives were all aflutter over the mere suggestion -- by them, of course -- that the eeeeeeeevil George W. Bush would suspend democracy in our country? Never happened, of course, since Dubya was the best of patriots. But here we have two influential Democrats, Orszag and Perdue, coming out for less democracy, and only Drudge and the usual conservative blogs are calling them on it. I smell a rat. |
Later Tuesday afternoon, Perdue's office clarified the remarks: "Come on," said spokeswoman Chris Mackey in a statement. "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."
| Ah, those Democrats, always kidding and joking around when it comes to taking away power from ordinary citizens and putting it all into the ends of an unelected elite... |
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