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What's suspending the U.S. Constitution between friends?
Let's see if the liberals in here - including the liberal moderator - can refrain from personal attacks this time around. If you have nothing intelligent to say, please bring it to another thread and stop hijacking mine.
"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."
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.
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Re: What's suspending the U.S. Constitution between friends?
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It is sort of ridiculous when hyperbole is taken literally, but I know from this forum when I have used analogy to make a point I've been accused of hijacking. "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public," applies to a large segment of the right wing, apparently.
The people who were actually there and heard what she said (and I admit I haven't seen any footage of it - have you?) seem to think she was being serious with her statement.
But it's refreshing to hear that you aren't taking her seriously. Although I've always believed that if someone had to explain the joke later, then it really wasn't all that funny.
Re: What's suspending the U.S. Constitution between friends?
Mayor Bloomturd anyone? What never ceases to amaze me about some politicians, is the notion that they are somehow entitled to the power of their position, beyond the scope of written law. That somehow their mere existence, and self identified purpose, supercedes the limits placed on their positions, by the people. Whether or not this governor spoke sincerely, or sarcastically I don't know. I do know that there is at least a level of truth in her mind, with respect to what she said.
Oh, and btw, I say with certainty that she's not alone. Party be damned, there are lots of power drunk fools from different parties, and political spectrums, who feel as she does.
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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." Leo Tolstoy, 1897
Too Much of a Good Thing Why we need less democracy.
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 countrys political polarization was growing worseharming Washingtons 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 Congressand that paralyzing gridlock is the result.
So what to do? 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.
Re: What's suspending the U.S. Constitution between friends?
I really don't see anything controversial about Orszag's piece. Not sure I agree with his prescriptions but there's certainly some merit in the notion that government is completely dysfunctional.
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Re: What's suspending the U.S. Constitution between friends?
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I really don't see anything controversial about Orszag's piece. Not sure I agree with his prescriptions but there's certainly some merit in the notion that government is completely dysfunctional.
Right. I understand that people are frustrated with the dysfunction but gridlock is built into the system: three branches, checks and balances, etc.
"Democracy is the worst form of government...except for all the others."
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