Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
Jeffry Lane "Jeff" Flakeis an American politician and member of the Republican Party who has served as the junior United States Senator from Arizona since 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 December 1962
CountryUnited States of America
discipline fiscal stomach
I have to be a little pessimistic. There is no real stomach for fiscal discipline right now.
believed create created federal given hurricane katrina priorities spending
I never believed that it was responsible to create this new entitlement, but it's even more irresponsible now, given that Hurricane Katrina has created new spending priorities for the federal government,
fiscal pretend sorry
If you look at fiscal conservatism these days, it's in a sorry state. Republicans don't even pretend anymore.
buy expensive extremely looks
In the end, I think this looks like nothing more than an extremely expensive way to buy votes.
base literally
The base is literally screaming, 'Stop the spending!'
brought course fact home leaders
That has brought home the fact that we need not just new leaders but a course correction.
blame march minority ourselves
It's inexcusable, ... We're going to march ourselves right into the minority and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
contain cost late
It's not too late to try to contain the cost of this entitlement.
change direction simply
It's not enough simply to change leaders; we need to change the direction of the party.
elections leadership likely majority permanent year
It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an election year without a permanent majority leader.
tough
It was intense. This is a tough one.
deserve disaster efficient federal government response victims
The victims of this disaster deserve the swiftest and most efficient response that the federal government can provide,
cunningham people shoe waiting
The Scanlon thing, the Cunningham thing, I think you have more people waiting for the other shoe to drop.
government limited vision
There just is no vision for limited government,