Current Events > Lol Trey Gowdy is retiring at the end of this term

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rep-trey-gowdy-to-retire-from-congress-becoming-9th-gop-chairman-to-call-it-quits/

Now we'll never know what happened to Ben Ghazi
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Nothing to see here, please move along
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Trey is a reasonable human being, and congress is worse off to see him go.
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Republicans are dropping like flies from Congress.
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it's things like this that give me hope for nov.
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s0nicfan posted...

Trey is a reasonable human being, and congress is worse off to see him go.

You know, I recall you actually sounding like a reasonable person at one point long ago. What happened to that?
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I just decided to have my middle name legally changed to Ghazi.
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Literally no reason for him to retire
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one more seat available for the Dem takeover
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Trey is a reasonable human being, and congress is worse off to see him go.

You know, I recall you actually sounding like a reasonable person at one point long ago. What happened to that?

Outside of the absurd length of the Benghazi investigation which, by the way, it was his job to be thorough... go actually watch clips of him doing his job. The guy is a former court prosecutor and generally acts like one. He sticks to the facts, has no problem issuing subpoenas to BOTH sides of the aisle, and is generally concerned with gathering all the facts and doing his job well.

Out of curiosity, what makes you dislike him? Is it from actually seeing him in action, or because someone said online that he was a bad guy?
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s0nicfan posted...

Out of curiosity, what makes you dislike him? Is it from actually seeing him in action, or because someone said online that he was a bad guy?

He wasted years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars chasing the Benghazi rabbit, and he used his position as House Oversight chairman to stonewall the Russia investigation and throw the FBI under the bus to protect Trump
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Out of curiosity, what makes you dislike him? Is it from actually seeing him in action, or because someone said online that he was a bad guy?

He wasted years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars chasing the Benghazi rabbit, and he used his position as House Oversight chairman to stonewall the Russia investigation and throw the FBI under the bus to protect Trump

I've been told, repeatedly, for almost a full year that "investigations take up to 2.5 years" with regard to Trump and Russia, so the only way you could see the amount of time spent gathering all the facts as "chasing a rabbit" is if you implicitly believe that one is nonsense and the other isn't prior to the actual evidence gathering period.

I haven't heard about him stonewalling the Russia investigation, but it seems to be charging along just fine so I'd be curious to hear how exactly he's stonewalled it.

But seriously, go watch some videos of him in his day-to-day interactions as part of house oversight. I think you'll find he's a much more reasonable person than you're made out to believe. I could be wrong, but at the very least I've seen enough to believe that he isn't the man he's been made out to be by the left.
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First thought this said Terry Gordy.
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if you actually read what he said, it's ...so he can go back to the justice system.
For those that failed basic civics class:
Legislative--write laws
Judicial--interpret laws
Executive--enforce laws

Liberals keep saying hes all bark and no bite, so look for him hopefully joining the DOJ/head of FBI or he will be the next SCJ.
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BillyKidd posted...

if you actually read what he said, it's ...so he can go back to the justice system.
For those that failed basic civics class:
Legislative--write laws
Judicial--interpret laws
Executive--enforce laws

Liberals keep saying hes all bark and no bite, so look for him hopefully joining the DOJ/head of FBI or he will be the next SCJ.

Whatever gets you to sleep at night.....
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Lol why the heck would Gowdy be the head of the FBI
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lol all these Republicans in Congress did everything they could to smear Hillary Clinton before the election. Now they're retiring because of the huge losses they're gonna take under Trump.

Bio1590 posted...

Literally no reason for him to retire

"less likely to win primary than no-name republican, and offered a large sum to work for lobbying firm"
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Doom_Art posted...

Lol why the heck would Gowdy be the head of the FBI

from last year ,but the points are still valid: Gowdy wanted to finish his term before looking for a job in the executive branch.

https://newstarget.com/2017-05-11-rep-trey-gowdy-makes-the-most-sense-as-the-next-director-of-the-fbi.html
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These are the eight GOP chairmen that are retiring:
2. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas -- House Science, Space and Technology Committee

good fucking riddance
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BillyKidd posted...

from last year ,but the points are still valid: Gowdy wanted to finish his term before looking for a job in the executive branch.

The position has been filled
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https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/958852278496116736

Retiring Rep. Gowdy "has found himself butting heads in recent months with Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and other pro-Trump Republicans who have hinted at corruption at the FBI"

wtf Gowdy is a hero now???
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