Jeff Flake: A Government Shutdown Could Help Rescue Obamacare

In 2012, then-senator and chairman of the Senate Conservatives Fund Jim DeMint endorsed Jeff Flake in the Arizona Senate race. “Jeff Flake is one of the strongest conservative leaders in Congress,” declared DeMint. “[N]obody has done more to advance the cause of freedom than Jeff Flake. Nobody.”

But a little over a year since DeMint heaped effusive praise on Flake, the Arizona senator finds himself the subject of attack ads run by the Senate Conservatives Fund. “Republicans in Congress can stop Obamacare by simply refusing to fund it, but Senator Jeff Flake is nowhere to be found,” declared one radio ad. “Jeff Flake won’t stand up to President Obama.”