With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

I believe we need new leadership to put the partisan gridlock behind us, and I promised my constituents I would vote for new leadership.

Some may remain imprisoned in a gridlock of lies or keep on blurring the lines between facts and fables, expecting us to buy the debilitating and fake narrative of their life, until they eventually end up on the chopping block of the inexorable truth. Be that as it may, one can "fool people some of the time, but not all of the time". ("Bribe payers' index ?)

With gridlock the norm Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.