“I DIDN’T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS”
by Sharon Rondeau
(Oct. 1, 2017) — On this week’s edition of “Full Measure News,” veteran reporter and host Sharyl Attkisson interviewed Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado’s fourth district, who is serving his second term in Congress and claims that despite outward differences, Democrats and Republicans actually work together to satisfy the desires of special interests.
“It’s not a big secret,” Buck told Attkisson of the sizable dues required by members of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and its counterpart, the DCCC.
Buck said that special interests, including “corporate interests,” control the very people who are expected to oversee them and act based on the desires of their constituents.
“Getting to this place is really shocking,” Buck told Attkisson of politics in Washington, DC. “You never vote for less money,” he said of efforts to shrink government spending. He said that he believes that “most members” arrive in the nation’s capitol with good intentions but either leave after serving a short time, become disillusioned, or “entrenched” in the system.
“I didn’t come here to make friends,” Buck told Attkisson, contending that his unpopular stand might lead to his early replacement in Congress.
He said that Washington is “broken.”
In a promotional tweet on Friday, Buck wrote, “We need to change the way Washington works.”
The two segments which followed Buck’s reported on two teenage girls murdered by MS-13 members on Long Island last September, media bias against President Donald Trump, and $160 million poorly spent in Afghanistan, according to an inspector general’s report.