{"id":380188,"date":"2018-10-08T20:39:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-political-dysfunction-has-broken-washington-kerry\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T20:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:39:19","slug":"presstv-political-dysfunction-has-broken-washington-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-political-dysfunction-has-broken-washington-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Political dysfunction has \u2018broken\u2019 Washington: Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has blasted the political\u00a0dysfunction in Washington, saying Congress is \u201ctorn apart ideologically\u201d due to the partisanship plaguing the Democratic and Republican Parties in the nation\u2019s legislature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWashington is broken. Most Americans understand that. It\u2019s a mess. The Congress is dysfunctional because it\u2019s torn apart ideologically. Politically, it\u2019s in a bad place. And it\u2019s a sad thing,\u201d Kerry said in an interview with US media that aired Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extremes on both sides started to demand, \u2018Well, you can\u2019t do that and you can\u2019t do this,\u2019 and, in the end, nothing happened,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Historically, our country has done best when people acted in the interest of the country, not in the interest of one party or the other party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former top US diplomat predicted that the public\u2019s frustration with the dysfunction among members of Congress would manifest itself in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/08\/576432\/US-John-Kerry-Congress-dysfunction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has blasted the political\u00a0dysfunction in Washington, saying Congress is \u201ctorn apart ideologically\u201d due to the partisanship plaguing the Democratic and Republican Parties in the nation\u2019s legislature. \u201cWashington is broken. Most Americans understand that. It\u2019s a mess. The Congress is dysfunctional because it\u2019s torn apart ideologically. Politically, it\u2019s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}