Yesterday it was reported that Gov. Perdue had called for the suspension of congressional elections in 2012 due to the partisan bickering in Congress:

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.

I didn’t report on this yesterday simply because it wasn’t clear to me the context of Perdue’s comments. Was she joking or was she being serious?

The Daily Caller has obtained the audio of her comments, it is pretty clear that she wasn’t joking around, but rather taking a serious tone:

It’s almost hard to take a comment like this seriously because it’s just so absurd to call for the suspension of any elections. And I’m still not convinced she really meant it, that it wasn’t in jest. It’s just a really odd comment that wouldn’t even accomplish what she’s proposing.

What do you think?

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  • Anonymous

    After listening to the audio, I truly believe she was serious. Her tone and delivery were nowhere near joking.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, she was serious. Plus, you don’t joke about suspending elections. Ha ha! I’m dying of laughter!!

    Don’t forget this was the same party that did not want to certify Scott Brown on time so they could ram through Obamacare.

    Statist totalitarian rule is what unites this bunch.

    • Anonymous

      Dictators don’t have elections…

    • Anonymous

      Purdue, the American people will get more laughs by firing you and all the other leftist in Washington!

  • Anonymous

    I think she and BHO are desperate Marxists…the media will assist in every way possible. “Is Perdue correct” pieces will soon follow…

  • Anonymous

    I think she was using hyperbole.

    Why is it that only Dems use this simple minded argument of “let’s just get along and stop the partisan bickering”. Idiots. You can’t agree with President Zero… no way… no how! No compromise is possible with that saboteur. Dim wits like her are the problem. Call out your Saboteur-in-Chief mam! Use your best southern accent and do it. Then we can take you serious.

    But please… no more crap about getting along and working together.

    • Anonymous

      That whole “let’s get along and do something” is a load of crap. Like those Coexist bumper stickers I hate so much. /ot

      “General Custer has a plan, now let’s follow him and stop all the backbiting and second guessing.”

  • http://onthemark1.blogspot.com On The Mark

    I’m in NC and on fan of Perdue. But honestly, while it was obviously not intended for laughs, she might have been speaking in hyperbole. I can’t tell for sure. Either way, I suspect her days as governor are numbered.

    • http://escapingmediocrity.wordpress.com Natassia

      Didn’t sound like hyperbole to me.

    • Anonymous

      Joking not joking. Fine and dandy. We’d the “Joke” come from? Ever hear about truth in jest? At best she let slip out what she truly feels but is usually afraid to verbalize. OOPS!

    • Anonymous

      Yup. Being from NC you may know that Perdue has made a number of statements making it very clear that she places her authority as Governer above both the Legislature and the State Constitution.

      Not only is she serious, SHE DEEPLY BELIEVES IN EXECUTIVE DICTATE.

      • Anonymous

        We must get Purdue and all the other leftist out of Washington, asap!

    • David Robertson

      I’m in NC as well. I think she was serious, but realized her pontification was not taken lightly and caught fire in a national setting. The rest is cover by the political team. No hyperbole, no laughs.

  • Anonymous

    So, they actually came out and said it: citizens no longer count in this country, only the government has legitimacy. How American.

  • http://escapingmediocrity.wordpress.com Natassia

    Well, duh.

    Lawrence Auster at View From the Right said it best:

    “As I keep saying about liberals, their ultimate end is the end of democracy. This is because democratic majority rule means that the majority has more power than the minority, a situation that violates equality. The only way to assure true equality is to have mankind ruled by an unelected elite that truly represents the equality of all and the good of all.”

    • http://fishygov.wordpress.com FishyGov

      The Founding Fathers created a Republic not a Democracy.

      • http://escapingmediocrity.wordpress.com Natassia

        The United States is a Republic, but what are the individual states and their municipalities? And how do you come to have representatives in the first place? Elections. And what are elections? Democracy in action.

        • Guest

          Democracy and Republic as defined by the U.S. Army in 1928

          “Democracy:
          A government of the masses.
          Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression.
          Attitude toward property is comunistic-negating property rights.
          Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

          Republic:
          Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
          Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.
          Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.”

          There is a distinct difference between a Democracy and a Republic. If given the choice, I’d rather live in a Republic.

          • http://escapingmediocrity.wordpress.com Natassia

            What do you think happens when the masses vote on a law that is put on the ballot?

            Democracy. We are not one or the other. America has elements of democracy and republicanism.

          • http://escapingmediocrity.wordpress.com Natassia

            What do you think happens when the masses vote on a law that is put on the ballot?

            Democracy. We are not one or the other. America has elements of democracy and republicanism.

          • Anonymous

            My definition of a Democracy is a Bear, a Fox and a Rabbit voting on what’s for dinner.

        • http://fishygov.wordpress.com FishyGov

          The following explains the difference between a Democracy and a Republic best.

          A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action. There is only one dissenting vote, and that is cast by the person at the end of the rope.

          A republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if a majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.

          • http://escapingmediocrity.wordpress.com Natassia

            See my other reply to you.

            We have “mob rule” in the sense that takers are outvoting the producers time and again. Until we reign in the right to vote to only people who actually have skin in the game, the United States is a democracy in all practical sense of the word.

            And remember, through democracy in our “constitutional republic,” amendments can be added to or removed from the constitution, veritably altering that “rule of law” you hold up as sacred and unchangeable.

            This is why immigration is such a big damn deal. When the face of the nation changes, so do her laws.

            • http://fishygov.wordpress.com FishyGov

              We can’t take the vote from those with no skin in the game.

              We can and must take the vote away from illegal aliens and social security check cashing dead people.

              • http://escapingmediocrity.wordpress.com Natassia

                A Constitutional Amendment could easily restrict voting rights to those with skin in the game (ie those who actually pay taxes.)

          • David Robertson

            splitting hairs over Natassia’s original comment is not productive. She’s right. We have a Democratic Republic. Key word “Democratic”. Democracy drives the Republic. The Republic structure provides fairness in a national setting to (among other things) protect the population discrepancy between states–giving them a balanced voice at that level. Nevertheless, Democratic elections drive the Republic representatives.

            I just finished reading a book that describes very well what FishyGov is referring to. If you haven’t already, read C.S. Lewis’ “Screwtape Letters”. Specifically, the second section of the book (in the back) where Screwtape addresses the masses at a dinner and explains how the bastardization of the term “Democracy” leads to a “fairness movement” that halts productivity and advancement…..very relevant to what we are witnessing in today’s world.

            • Anonymous

              Every CS Lewis book is very good IMO. The Screwtape Letters was written from a unique perspective. I love me some CS Lewis. Did you know that he and JRR Tolkien were great friends?

  • Anonymous

    Everyone saw what happened in Wisconsin with the recalls. I bring this up because the left knows they are screwed. I believe what Rush says too. 2012 maybe even worse for Democrats!

  • Anonymous

    Perdue has humiliated herself licking Obama’s boots. She is a bought and sold sock puppet for Obama. She has been massively defeated and marginalized in NC by the 2010 election which ushered in NC’s first Elephant controlled legislature in 100 years.

    She is the perfect talking head to float the Statist’s plan to usurp our vote. She has nothing to lose as she will not be relected.

    This is dead serious.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Florey/100002838321254 Mike Florey

    Then I can say (in jest of course) she and the Democrats can quit voting for two election cycles.
    M’kay?

    O.T. To my friends here, Leshanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim, “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.”

    See you in 5773.

  • Anonymous

    Might as well just rip up the Constitution. An elected government is it’s very basis.

  • Anonymous

    I would like to hear a response from the imposter in chief on this idea.

    • Anonymous

      I love it.
      Sincerely,
      O’

      My poetic license just expired.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZI2P3O3HGQ4ZQHVPBYI6A4ZMR4 Carmon M

    Move along… nothing to see here.

  • Josh

    I think she was dead serious. She just wants us to get out of the way so Congress can save us. Geez! The people of this country are so stupid!

    Thanks, Per-don’t.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t tell me, don’t tell me she ran for office on that old “…chicken in every pot.” line.

    GB

  • Anonymous

    It’s another lib showing her true colors/beliefs. The handwriting is on the wall for 2012, and the thieves don’t know what to do.

  • Anonymous

    Were I a betting man, I’d wager two whoreshoes and a blacksmith she’s serious.

    Giddy Yap!

  • Anonymous

    Sure Purdue, the American people want to keep the president and his minions, that creators of all of our problems, in office for four more years.

    Think Purdue just wants a dictatorship? Yet, another “useful idiot”.

  • Anonymous

    I think that I am hearing just a little too many references to ditching our constitutional form of government lately from this current crop of lefty loons. Peter Orzag (Obama’s previous budget guy) just wrote an article a couple weeks ago calling for moving toward a less democratic America.

  • Anonymous

    She should be recalled ASAP!

    • Anonymous

      She should also be called a Sap. Here, let me show you what I mean.

      Sap!

  • http://fishygov.wordpress.com FishyGov

    I realize that it is asking too much for candidates to read and understand the U.S. Constitution and its amendments before they run for office but we have to start requiring them to read it, understand it or get a tutor to explain it to them after they win an election.

  • Anonymous

    Gov.Perdue has forgotten she is the Governor of NC not North China.

    • http://www.foxnews.com thegremlinsays

      North Korea?

      • Anonymous

        Beverly Jong II
        Beverly Hu Jintao
        Beverly Castro
        Beverly AhMADdinejad
        Beverly Tan DUNG

        And the list continues….Banishment

  • Anonymous

    Maybe she has a stash from the AFT to enforce and “take out” the people with the Teamsters assistance.

  • Anonymous

    I think she is serious. I also think it is the first move by Obama to postpone elections till he has time to fix our country’s problems. The theory that he will put off elections (and become king) has been rumored on the deep right for a while. I am really amazed to hear a gov actually come out and espouse it.

  • http://fishygov.wordpress.com FishyGov

    She complains that most of those running for office aren’t qualified.

    Then goes on to suggest that Article One, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution be suspended for two years?

    Someone please give her a box of doughnuts and a beer…hum!

    U.S. Constitution
    Article One
    Section 2: House of Representatives

    Clause 1: Composition and election of Members
    “The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.”

  • Anonymous

    Trial ballon..???
    these people are out of control….!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Spoken like a true fascist pig. Isn’t that what they used to call everyone. Projection I guess. Hitler would be so proud. He suspended their Constitution. Hey, you don’t think they’re going to have Hitler’s version of the Reichstag Fire close to the election, do you? They’ve already had Fast and Furious. I think BP was set up by them, the shooting in AZ, and the Financial problems in 2008. I put nothing past them. Anyone up for Civil War?

  • Anonymous

    We were just talking about sedatives and anti-depressants in school, and she sounds like she is on them at a dose not prescribed by medical professionals. The bottle says take one, three times daily, not three, three times daily.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G6FEIGB3R5R3TJL4VOTZOONTFU John

    It is really hard for the average adult American to believe that people we have elected to high office; Congressmen, Senators, Governors, perhaps even President can be dumber than a box of rocks. It does not speak well of we the people. Afterall, we pick ‘em and keep re-electing them/

  • Anonymous

    IMO another lib passing their farts out the wrong end.

  • Anonymous

    How would the dear lady feel about doing her job from jail?? Breach of oath of office for starters ! AARRGH !!!

  • cassandra/kes

    i listened several times, things close to the heart do not jest when they are not watching their words. she was dead serious.

  • Anonymous

    Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if Gov. Palin had said this during her tenure??????

  • Anonymous

    This sounds like sedition to me. She’s encouraging people to act against the laws of this country by suspending lawful elections.

  • Anonymous

    Somebody put her up to this. Plain and simple. Is this a sign of things to come?

  • Anonymous

    How would giving them more time keep them from doing what they are doing now??? She’s an idiot. Glad I live in NC.

    Maybe she wants that for Obama too….lets just skip the next election and say we won’t hold your first term against you so here is another for years to “fix” the country.

    We are a nation of laws Governor and the laws state the length of the terms. Why don’t you go and re-look at that oath that you swore to and re-read the Constitution (if you’ve even read it at all).

    This is a major problem in our country as everyone here knows. Elected officials trying to bypass the constitution. IT’S THE LAW!!! You can’t go around it!!!

    She needs to be held accountable for these comments. I’m not saying what that is at this time but the press should at least put her to the coals a bit and get an explanation out of her (which I’m sure would be her back-peddling).

  • Anonymous

    “”From bondage to spiritual faith;
    from spiritual faith to great courage;
    from courage to liberty;
    from liberty to abundance;
    from abundance to selfishness;
    from selfishness to apathy;
    from apathy to dependence;
    from dependency back again into bondage.”"

    -Alexander Fraser Tytler

    • Anonymous

      Have you seen this in circulation?

      Now I lay me down to sleep..one less terrorist this world does keep…With all my heart I give my thanks…to those in uniform regardless of ranks…You serve our country and serve it well..with humble hearts your stories tell..So as I rest my weary eyes..while freedom rings..our flag still flies..You give your all..do what you must..With God we live and God we trust.

  • Anonymous

    If Gov.Perdue (D) North Carolina was joking she has made a mockery of the constitution.
    If Gov.Perdue was serious she is dishonorable and has violated her oath of office.

  • http://twitter.com/jdtarheel Jamie Lowe

    Stupid B word. She is truly the dumbest person to ever hold a political office. I can’t wait to vote her out in 2012.

  • Anonymous

    Of course she was serious ,she’s a Liberal/Democrat,it’s common for them speak jibber jabber nonsense! What’s really is SAD is they actually believe their verbal garbage,it also doesn’t surprise me because the lefties know they are going DOWN with Obama and if somehow her ideas were possible these LOSERS would hope to regroup and SPIN a whole new pack of lies and maybe turn things around!So there is some method to their madness.

  • Anonymous

    Like most Democrats, she is an idiot.