Trey
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Posted on 09/29/2015 12:51:26 PM PDT by mojito
The choice House Republicans make to replace John Boehner as speaker will say a lot about how the party is going to handle its current identity crisis. Will it finally take governing seriously, or will it go on using its majority in Congress to shut down the government, hold show votes on health care reform, stymie President Obama and try to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president?
The current conventional wisdom holds that the leading candidate is the majority leader, Kevin McCarthy of California. Mr. McCarthy, at least, said on Monday that it is time to stop “governing by crisis,” and that he would look for “the most conservative solution I can find.” That might, possibly, hint that he is open to compromise.
His promotion, however, would leave the majority leader spot open. And, as Jennifer Steinhauer reports today, some in the party are hoping to elevate Trey Gowdy to that position.
Mr. Gowdy, of South Carolina, was elected in 2010 and built a reputation sponsoring marginal and often bizarre bits of legislation, like the 2014 bill that would allow the House of Representatives to sue the president of the United States if it did not like the way the president was enforcing the law.
He’s a big supporter of repealing the Affordable Care Act and, of course, of denying federal money to Planned Parenthood.
But Mr. Gowdy has made his biggest splash by running the longest congressional investigation in history, which is ostensibly into the killings at the Benghazi diplomatic compound on September 11, 2012, but most often just seems like an attempt to mess around with Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
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Ahh, yes, the famous Andrew Rosenthal who helped The Bent One get elected over GHW Bush, by lying about how the senior Bush was amazed by electronic supermarket scanners, thus portraying Bush as an out of touch elitist. Rosenthal’s lie went viral at the time, and assuredly influenced the outcome of that election.
First Salon and now the Slimes, he must be scoring hits.
Jefferson Sessions as Vice President
Department of State, (return INS.) – Donald Rumsfeld
Department of Justice – Rep. Steve King
Department of Treasury, (includes former Homeland Security - Customs) – Carl Icahn (Offered and Accepted)
Department of War, (change the name back, include VA function.) – Gen. James Mattis
Department of Interior, (includes legitimate functions only of former Transportation, Homeland Security - Border Patrol, and Energy Departments) – Gov. Palin
Department of Labor and Commerce – ELIMINATE
Department of Health and Human Services - ELIMINATE
Department of Homeland Security – ELIMINATE
Department of Education – ELIMINATE as proposed by The Donald, 9/23/25 at a Columbia, SC Town Hall with Sen. Tim Scott.
Department of Energy – ELIMINATE
Department of Housing and Urban Development – ELIMINATE
Department of Veterans Affairs - ELIMINATE
Department of Agriculture – ELIMINATE
Department of Transportation - ELIMINATE
This proposed model has the President directly managing six subordinates which is optimal.
In non-cabinet level jobs
Sheriff Clarke should be FBI Director
Michelle Bachman as IRS Commissioner under Secretary Carl Icahn in Treasury
Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons as Undersecretary of War - Navy Branch.
LTC Allen West as Undersecretary of War – Army Branch.
Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson would be great as President Trumps Co-Press Secretaries.
And in Congress lets have Trey Gowdy as Speaker of the House, and Ted Cruz as Senate Majority Leader.
Exactly. I read recently that Obungo has only vetoed 4 times during his whole tenure. That alone tells you everything you need to know about the spineless opposition mounted by the surrender RINO establishment. To the useful idiots and low information voters on the outside looking in, it could be and is argued that Obungo has no opposition and as such his policies are popular.
In my opinion, victory may not be attained in all cases; regardless, opposition should be principled and consistent, opposition should be followed through, Obungo supporters should be identified, and Obungo should be documented as thwarting the will of the people with each and every veto.
A war consists of battles, the establishment GOP up until now have not even entered the battlefield, they have pretended to fight while surrendering.
Smell the fear.
Nobody fears Gowdy. He talks a good conservative game but is GOPe all the way on the big issues like amnesty and TPA/trade.
“Nobody fears Gowdy. He talks a good conservative game but is GOPe all the way on the big issues like amnesty and TPA/trade.”
If the Nazi lizards at the NYT fear Gowdy, it’s worthwhile to give Trey another look.
CONSERVATIVES are supermajority in favor of free trade. Libs supermajority opposed.
IIRC, Trey has already said he is not interested in the Speakership.
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There was no wide spread internet, no Twitter, No Facebook, not even Drudge when Bush-41 ran and lost to B.J. Clinton. So how did it go viral?
I think he would make a GREAT speaker .. but I sure do want him to hurry up and take out Hillary/Benghazi first.
Maybe if enough people contact Gowdy, he’ll change his mind.
All the monolithic leftist media covered it back then: TV, radio, newspapers. It was everywhere. I specifically remember it. Sort of like proto-viral.
you know if Freepers will ALL get on the phone Across the land and call, call, CALL their house member and demand ... other than MCarthy, I don't know maybe Daniel Webster...
who knows we might get someone other than Kevin. it is worth a try.
it IS what Freepers are known for... ACTION!
I have already called my guy twice and there will be plenty more
My guy is a Boehner butt kisser and he will be a McCarthy butt kisser. He is owned by the GOPe and hopefully we will be able to get rid of him next go around.
Maybe but my guy was on the radio yesterday saying he was voting for McCarthy.
Today the DC aide said that McCarthy had said something wrong about HIllary and Iran. Now he is taking down the phone logs to see who to vote for.
Soooooooooo it can change.
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