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Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« on: April 09, 2018, 12:57:29 pm »
Market Watch
Tim Rostan
Apr. 9, 2018

‘Depending on how you judge the purpose of the Benghazi investigation, I think a lot of people would say I was a loser.’


That’s South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy, elected to the House in the tea-party wave of 2010, on having been called a loser by then–presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The remark from the retiring congressman, who’s counting down his final journeys between his home state and the District of Columbia, came in a Gowdy interview with Vice News that aired this week on HBO.

More... https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trey-gowdy-i-dont-have-a-lot-to-show-for-the-last-seven-years-2018-04-08
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2018, 01:12:30 pm »
I've never been a big fan of applying the label "loser" to people, but I will say that I viewed his overall performance a "disappointment."  He certainly was not helped by people like McCarthy, but he was pretty soft on Obama people in the investigations he chaired.  He was known for being creative in puncturing the political arguments from the Rats, but he seemed to lose that edge as soon as he was placed into a position to actually do something about it.
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2018, 01:16:58 pm »
That boy was all hat and no cattle.
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2018, 01:30:24 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on April 09, 2018, 01:12:30 pm
I've never been a big fan of applying the label "loser" to people, but I will say that I viewed his overall performance a "disappointment."  He certainly was not helped by people like McCarthy, but he was pretty soft on Obama people in the investigations he chaired.  He was known for being creative in puncturing the political arguments from the Rats, but he seemed to lose that edge as soon as he was placed into a position to actually do something about it.


A question I have about Pubs like Gowdy, Issa and Nunes is do they get any backing when they try to do something? Have they been stymied by leaders like Boehner, Ryan and McConnell?

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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2018, 01:48:35 pm »
Quote from: endicom on April 09, 2018, 12:57:29 pm
Market Watch
Tim Rostan
Apr. 9, 2018

‘Depending on how you judge the purpose of the Benghazi investigation, I think a lot of people would say I was a loser.’






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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2018, 02:04:23 pm »
Congress is not a one man band. I'm not sure what they can do if the leadership drags it's feet and does nothing.
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2018, 02:08:10 pm »
You can avoid finding anything if you know where not to look!
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2018, 02:34:55 pm »
If the House is lost in fall and everyone looks back for a post mortem, people like Gowdy running their mouths yet getting nothing done should be the primary cause.
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2018, 02:35:20 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 09, 2018, 01:16:58 pm
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2018, 03:10:56 pm »
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2018, 03:27:09 pm »
The Republican Party doesn't have a lot to show for the last 7 years either, except to make ObamaCare their own and fund most of the Democrat agenda, while writing trillion-dollar omnibus deficit spending bills in secret and voting on them without anyone having time to read them.

Which is the same thing that happened when the Democrats ran the show.

So yeah - Captain Obvious - you and your party have nothing to show for all the power you were handed.

So, this Fall will likely be 2006 Deja Vu.

Deservedly so.
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2018, 04:08:55 pm »
Quote from: INVAR on April 09, 2018, 03:27:09 pm
The Republican Party doesn't have a lot to show for the last 7 years either, except to make ObamaCare their own and fund most of the Democrat agenda, while writing trillion-dollar omnibus deficit spending bills in secret and voting on them without anyone having time to read them.

Which is the same thing that happened when the Democrats ran the show.

So yeah - Captain Obvious - you and your party have nothing to show for all the power you were handed.

So, this Fall will likely be 2006 Deja Vu.

Deservedly so.

@INVAR the specter of a Democrat tidal wave looms, if only for one reason...the despising of Trump. Democrat voters will turn out in November to vote against Trump. DNC won't need any money for that, just as the Chamber of Commerce $$$ was not needed to get the TEA Party out in 2010. In fact, the CofC money was used not to defeat Democrats, but to defeat TEA Party candidates.

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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2018, 04:22:22 pm »
Quote from: Night Hides Not on April 09, 2018, 04:08:55 pm
@INVAR the specter of a Democrat tidal wave looms, if only for one reason...the despising of Trump. Democrat voters will turn out in November to vote against Trump. DNC won't need any money for that, just as the Chamber of Commerce $$$ was not needed to get the TEA Party out in 2010. In fact, the CofC money was used not to defeat Democrats, but to defeat TEA Party candidates.

I know what CofC and McConnell did to destroy the grassroots Tea Parties out here.

That was when I woke up and realized that the Republican Party was as corrupt, evil and wholly statist as the Democrats were.  Their rules changing at the last two conventions to lock out any possibility of a grassroots conservative getting the nomination of their party confirmed it for me.

The Tea Party was  a direct threat to the crony-fascist gravy train in D.C. - and the Republican Party leadership was key to dismantling it.  McConnell's open demands for us to sit down and shut up or get punched in the nose - was simply the Statist mask he wears, falling a little.
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Re: Trey Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2018, 04:31:03 pm »
Quote from: INVAR on April 09, 2018, 04:22:22 pm
I know what CofC and McConnell did to destroy the grassroots Tea Parties out here.

That was when I woke up and realized that the Republican Party was as corrupt, evil and wholly statist as the Democrats were.  Their rules changing at the last two conventions to lock out any possibility of a grassroots conservative getting the nomination of their party confirmed it for me.

The Tea Party was  a direct threat to the crony-fascist gravy train in D.C. - and the Republican Party leadership was key to dismantling it.  McConnell's open demands for us to sit down and shut up or get punched in the nose - was simply the Statist mask he wears, falling a little.

Sounds like we've been having the same conversations with Francisco d'Anconia...lol

Now that the weather's improving, and I can resume my walks of 7-12 miles, it's a good time to dust off my audio book of Atlas Shrugged. The reader does a great job of bring it to life, even makes John Galt's speech inspiring.
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