Suspending Elections: A Joke? I Think Not...

Benedict Arnold
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North Carolina governor (Democrat) Beverly Perdue has stated "it was only a joke" when she proposed suspending congressional elections for two years until Congress can get the country economically back on track.

Uhh, I don't think so.

What do you think?  Does this sound like a joke?  Here's the quote from Governor Perdue:

"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. 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. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It's a little bit more contentious now but it's not impossible to try to do what's right in this state. You want people who don't worry about the next election."

Maybe Governor Perdue wants to extend the moratorium on elections to North Carolina, seeing as how her campaign is under criminal investigation, hmmm?

She sounds a lot like President Obama's former director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, who wrote an article on "Why We Need Less Democracy":

To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic.