Jeff Flake and The DC Impasse: Who’s At Fault?

by | Oct 25, 2017

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) told the Senate yesterday that he would not seek another term in the US Senate because he could no longer be part of the “discord and dysfunction” of Washington, DC. “[W]e have given in or given up on the core principles in favor of a more viscerally satisfying anger and resentment,” he complained to his colleagues. But does Senator Flake’s complaint about the tone of Washington discourse really get to the bottom of what’s wrong with Washington? Isn’t it more than tone? Isn’t it that there is too much agreement among politicians rather than too much disagreement that is our biggest problem? We look at what’s really wrong in today’s Liberty Report:

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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