Perdue: Suspend congressional elections

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From the UPI:

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue Tuesday suggested suspending congressional elections to give lawmakers time to focus on the economic recovery. Perdue, a Democrat, made the suggestion in an appearance before the Cary Rotary Club, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported.
“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.”
Anybody agree with her? If nothing else, it would mean that we wouldn’t have to put up with those stupid political ads on TV any more. 😃
 
Soon we will be hearing stories that Bev Perdue didn’t inhale the smoke before making her appearence before the Cary Rotary Club.
 
markomalley said:
From the UPI:

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue Tuesday suggested suspending congressional elections to give lawmakers time to focus on the economic recovery. Perdue, a Democrat, made the suggestion in an appearance before the Cary Rotary Club, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported.
“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.”
Anybody agree with her? If nothing else, it would mean that we wouldn’t have to put up with those stupid political ads on TV any more. 😃
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A much, much better idea would be to disband Congress and send them all home. Just tell them we don’t hold it against them, but we just really need people in Washington who want to put the country first, rather than their party, caucus, pocketbook, lobby, PAC, special interest group, etc. Then we hold new elections, but it has to be with people who have no strong ties to either political party machine.
 
Well, I suppose if all of us had to compete for our jobs every two years, business might run a bit less smoothly as well. But maybe not. Anyway, I’m not sure why the public should have such a low opinion of Congress since it’s we who elect them, and we who have the power to remove or retain them. If Congress is gridlocked, it’s because the nation is gridlocked.
 
Wow, I just noticed that the media forgot to put (D) after her name…
 
We could solve many of our elective troubles by doing something Singapore is successfully doing. First, give everyone a salary of $1 million a year with no extra allowances. With everyone making so much a year, it’d help reducing corruption. Corruption will be dealt with severely. Singapore is consistently rated one of the least corrupt countries in the world by Transparency International.

Second, we need a strong, experienced and highly qualified government, backed by a skilled Civil Service and an education system with an emphasis on achievement and meritocracy. Can we do that? Don’t want to see a repeat of Cynthia McKinney again.

Third, we need strong leadership…

Singapore must be doing something right. Its economy heavily depends on the industry and service sectors. Singapore is a world leader in several areas, it is the world’s fourth leading financial centre, the world’s second biggest casino gambling market, the world’s top three oil refining centre. The port of Singapore is one of the five busiest ports in the world. The country is home to more US dollar millionaire households per capita than any other country. The World Bank notes Singapore as the easiest place in the world to do business. By the way, Hong Kong is number 1 on that list.

I’ve been to Singapore twice. It’s a beautiful place.
 
St_Francis said:
Oh, I’m embarrassed now! I just noticed they mentioned she’s a Democrat later in the article :o
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Both news articles cited in this thread identify her as a Democrat. The UPI article mentions it in the second paragraph and the WCNC article mentions it in the first paragraph.
 
JimG said:
Well, I suppose if all of us had to compete for our jobs every two years, business might run a bit less smoothly as well. But maybe not. Anyway, I’m not sure why the public should have such a low opinion of Congress since it’s we who elect them, and we who have the power to remove or retain them. If Congress is gridlocked, it’s because the nation is gridlocked.
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We vote for them because we have no choice—the system is rigged:

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446152,00.html
 
She knows the Democrats are losing elections every chance they get.

So, the only way the Democrats can keep the seats they already have is … to not risk those seats in any future elections.

By “freezing” the seats they now hold, they can keep some hold on power …

Who knows, the Republicans are so … vulnerable to suggestions … credulous … that perhaps the Democrats can even convince the Republicans to voluntarily give up some of the Republican seats and just give them to Democrats.

The Republicans will fall for anything.

They are just “easy”. Naive. Gullible.

But in a good way. The Republicans will just believe anything that the Democrats tell them.

After all, the Democrats did that a few years ago … in the famous “power sharing” ploy … and it worked.

The Republicans, after all … their motto is “Snatching Defeat from the jaws of victory!”
 
This post regarding our rulers in Congress and how to fix Congress is now making the rounds:

[And all of these provisions would apply to Congressional staffs, as well.]

Congressional Reform Act of 2011
  1. No Tenure / No Pension.
    A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
  2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
    All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
  3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
  4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
  5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
  6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
  7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
 
Sooooo…, If we have some problems, we can always blame that nasty Constitution. It is no wonder the governor would not want party affiliation attached to her name. 🙂

I sure hope she was joking. Unfortunately, the criminal class of Washington has been acting like the Constitutuion is irrelevant for the last 2-1/2 years.
 
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