posted September 28, 2011 04:51 PM            

Leftists lost the US House

Leftists lost a bunch of US Senate seats

Leftists are tuning up to lose more US house seats

Leftists are tuning up to lose the US Senate

Leftists are tuning up to lose the White House

A coming attraction for November, 2012.

So what ideas are circulating in demoscats circles? How can leftists avoid losing the US Senate and White House and prevent more leftist House members being sent home in November 2012?

New audio: NC governor struck serious tone on suspending congressional elections
11:26 AM 09/28/2011
By Matthew Boyle

If it was a joke, North Carolina Democratic Governor Bev Perdue needs to polish her delivery.

Newly released audio contradicts the claims of Perdue’s press team that her call Tuesday for suspending Congressional elections was a joke or hyperbole. In the recording, her tone is matter-of-fact and her comments are part of a serious speech.

“Listen to the Governor’s words: Play Video

She wasn’t joking at all,” North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood told The Daily Caller. “The congressional Democrats are wildly unpopular in North Carolina, so she may have been trying to invent a solution to save their jobs from public accountability.”

“If it was a joke, what was the set-up?,” Lockwood adds. “What was the punch-line? Where was the pause for laughter? It took them three hours to say it was a ‘joke,’ but when that flopped it became ‘hyperbole.’ We’ll just call it an unconstitutionally bad idea.

Perdue faced almost instant national criticism on Tuesday after she recommended suspending elections until the economy recovers.

“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.”

posted September 28, 2011 04:55 PM            

UPDATED: Gov. Bev Perdue's off-the-cuff remark about suspending Congressional elections to focus on the economy went viral. Her aides tried to walk it back, calling it "hyperbole" and suggesting she was joking.

Was she? You decide. Listen to the audio file here.

As background, her remarks came during a Q&A at the Cary Rotary Club meeting. A man in the audience asked Perdue what she can do to turn around the economy. (The question is not included on the tape because I didn't flick my recorder on quickly enough.)

It led to a rambling 2-minute-and-25 second answer she surely now regrets.

Soon after it was posted, reactions came streaming in. Here's the official line from N.C. Republican Party spokesman Rob Lockwood:

“Listen to the Governor’s words, she wasn’t joking at all. The Congressional Democrats are wildly unpopular in North Carolina, so she may have been trying to invent a solution to save their jobs from public accountability.”

"If it was a joke, what was the set-up? What was the punch-line? Where was the pause for laughter? It took them hours to say it was a ‘joke,’ but when that flopped, it became ‘hyperbole.’ We’ll just call it an unconstitutionally bad-idea.”

posted September 28, 2011 05:15 PM            

I would agree with Orszag that we need less democracy...but for a far different reason. The United States is not a "democracy" at all. The US is a "Constitutional Republic" a far different form of government.

Nevertheless, Peter Orszag wants to pass laws granting almost unlimited power and authority to a bunch of unelected federal bureaucrats who would bypass the Congress and pretty much do whatever they please!

None for me!

Every citizen should be enraged that there are high level administration officials and congressional members who don't know...or don't give a damn what the form of government is in the United States.

When John Adams wrote to John Taylor on the subject of "democracy" in 1814....“there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”...Adams knew what he was talking about. That's the reason a Constitutional Republic..and not a "Democracy" came out of the Constitutional Convention...and a republican form of government is guaranteed to every state by the US Constitution.

Too Much of a Good Thing
Why we need less democracy.
Peter Orszag
September 14, 2011

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.

posted September 29, 2011 09:36 AM            

demoscats and leftists...same thing....howl, screech, moan and shriek over every perceived issue...legitimate or phony BUT, when demoscats/leftists attack fundamental constitutional concepts, THEN....these leftists Kool-Aid drinkers go totally silent and don't wanna talk about it!

posted September 29, 2011 01:37 PM            

as to the voters and the turnarounds, its out of the frying pan into the fire, turn and turnabout. we're not happy, so we blame whoever is in power instead of dealing with the issues.

posted September 29, 2011 03:07 PM            

They're worse than pyromaniacs who start fires on every corner. Best to put them out asap before they damage the nation further.