As Obama Sinks In The Polls, Dems Try To Find An End Run Around Voters

The totalitarian left is coming up with creative ways to handle that pesky tendency voters have of disagreeing with them.

We heard from the Governor of North Carolina,  yesterday, calling for the suspension of elections until we can get our fiscal house in order.

“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.”

The Republicans sure are taking it seriously as they look to score political points. Here’s a statement from GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood:

“Now is a time when politicians need to be held accountable more than ever. To suspend an election would be removing the surest mechanism that people have to hold politicians accountable: the right to vote. Does the Governor not believe that people of North Carolina have the ability to think for themselves about whether or not the actions of elected officials are working?”

Now Obama’s former Economics adviser, Perter Orzag is calling for “a little less democracy” in an article in TNR: Too Much of a Good Thing:

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.

Reason has at it:

What’s the big problem with democracy? Well, for starters, not enough deficit spending. Yes, really. Orszag complains that it’s hard to just run up the federal credit card tab as high as he wants to, even though “virtually all responsible economists agree” that America, despite running record-setting deficits in recent years, needs bigger deficits in the short term.

Virtually all responsible economists agree that we should be aiming to reduce the deficit in the long-term but not in the short-term. We need an even larger deficit in 2011 and 2012, to support a weak economy—but a much smaller deficit in 2020 and 2050, to put the nation back on a sustainable fiscal course. Yet our polarized political system has proved incapable of reaching a consensus on this common-sense approach.

What we need, then, are ways around our politicians. The first would be to expand automatic stabilizers—those tax and spending provisions that automatically expand when the economy weakens, thereby cushioning the blow, and automatically contract as the economy recovers, thereby helping to reduce the deficit.

That “virtually all responsible economists” label is quite convenient. Who isn’t broadly in favor of following the guidance of responsible economists? But is there any doubt that Orszag, with his unflappable faith in the Bigger Deficits Now strategy, would label just about any economist who didn’t favor higher short-term deficit spending as “irresponsible”? Peel away the cute anti-democracy framework, then, and Orszag has done little more than argue that America should be governed more by empowered technocrats who agree with…Peter Orszag.

By “virtually all responsible economists”, I think he means the Keynesians, who – if I’m not mistaken have been fully discredited by Obama’s gross economic failures.

Whatevs. We should just handover complete control of the economy  to those guys, anyway.

Time will tell if more Dems jump on the anti-Democratic bandwagon.

In which case, the drones will have to come up with a new chant for their protests- “This is what Democracy looks like” may no longer be operative.