Posted on 10/12/2015 8:54:47 AM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson
In an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker, South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy offered his honest — and correct — assessment of his party in Congress. Here's the key bit:
I think the House is bordering on ungovernable right now. ... Being Speaker is a very difficult job. We need to have a family conversation and sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before that conversation starts. We're getting close ...
Now, Gowdy was explaining to Welker why he wouldn't be interested in the soon-to-be vacant job as speaker of the House. But his reasoning is almost certainly why Paul Ryan isn't jumping at the job either despite every establishment Republican in the country urging him to do it.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
wow, “lawn jockey”?
Read today the Chamber of Commerce is committing $100 million to defeat Tea Party members.
Shut the place down. Chaos is good. It’s what the voters want! Give us a conservative as House Speaker or we’ll just wait for the 2016 elections.
And don't forget the Export-Import Bank has somehow risen from the dead so Boehner (and quite a few of his buddies) can appease the Corporations on his way out the door!
Ungovernable? My azz! It is being governed by oligarchs for oligarchs while the people's interest be damned!
Regardless, he is right. The GOP leadership should be trying to find consensus within its majority. Instead, they seem more inclined to build a majority with Democrats to give the President what he wants. Perfect example, the Iran deal.
Ungovernable House? Scarier than that would be a governable House.
“The Problem With the House is really a direct result of the Rules of the Senate and the need for 60 votes to pass anything that the Dems object too.”
Did not seem to stop the dems.
The Sheriff Joe of the House...
I agree. I want 435 people listening to and voting to represent their constituencies, not some all powerful Speaker whose personality demands that members fall into line.
That's true. But the core reason is basically the same: The GOP Fear of a Government Shutdown. The Dems have no such constrain. They also assume that a Government shutdown will hurt the Republicans.
We need to get past that belief by actually testing it. That's not going to happen with the existing cloture rule in the Senate.
Advancing conservative ideas is not some foreign strategy. The current dipsh$ts couldn’t do that. That was the problem. Either you are moving the ball forward or the opposition is. The opposition one the day for 5 straight years. We got a few crumbs.
Gingrich was able to withstand an even bigger backlash and sent welfare reform to the president’s desk as well as significant tax cuts. They also got real concessions on budgetary spending. This bunch did none of the above and got rolled on every other issue.
Gowdy’s results have been disappointing and it’s easy to condemn him. But when he requests data from the White Hut, Justice Dept., Hillary, etc., and he gets nothing, he’s hobbled. What piddly things they do deign to hand over has been redacted, cherry-picked, fudged, and rendered useless. Until/unless there’s an honest and true Justice Department, we’re screwed. Gowdy is screwed.
“wow, “lawn jockey”?”
Wild, isn’t it? Having lost my Dad on Christmas day to complications from Agent Orange, I recv’d a lengthy involuntary FR `vacation’ Christmas season of 2013 following my comment, on an article on a string of B&Es by Amish (I believe) that, “black Santa comes in a window with an empty sack”.
I think it was the Mod, a big GOP=e fan.
Yeah vette, sure—another sternly worded letter from the GOP. They have that down to an art form now.
Yes, I did read it. It was really thrilling/
We’re all on the edges of our seats waiting for Trey’s other shoe to fall ... you go gurrrl. Send `em another.
Before blasting Gowdy and lumping him in with the RINOs, consider:
1. The House cannot prosecute people like Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton (now a private citizen). They can hold hearings and gather evidence.
2. The House and the various committees and special committees can recommend prosecution for various offenses, but;
3. The Department of Justice is responsible for prosecuting any crimes committed. It will be a frosty day in Yuma, Arizona before the Obama Justice Department lifts a finger to prosecute anyone involving Benghazi, Loise Lerner and the IRs or Hillary Clinton’s Illegal Email arrangement.
>> Gowdy’s results have been disappointing <<
Don’t think so. Without him, we wouldn’t know about Hilary’s private email system. I think that discovery alone is justification enough for his work to date.
Trey Gowdy is wrong- the democrats are governing the GOP I n the house with no problem- GOP goes right along with them- always-
we need to disown certain parts of the family is what we need to do if they dont get their sh1t together.
sez the Washington ComPost partisan media shill Chris Cillizza.
If my memory serves me correctly, having lived in Phoenix several years, Yuma does get frost now and then. Just might be that frost in Yuma and prosecutions might happen.
“First elected in 1980, Webster served 28 years in the state legislature in Tallahassee, becoming the longest serving legislator in Florida history.[2] During that time, he rose to become Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and Florida Senate majority leader,[3] and left the legislature only after reaching the legal term limits in 2008.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Webster_%28Florida_politician%29
Webster could do this without breaking into a sweat (unlike Hillary Daniel’s human)...
Also, Trey Gowdy’s one of our best... why are you trashing him?
Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza is one of those self-impressed Watergate babies who thinks everything the media report brings great value to society. His latest article was titled “Trust in the media is at an all-time low. That’s a terrible thing for all of us.”
Like hundreds of these snooty elites, he cries foul at media-bias chatter: “If you were in the media, you would know we aren’t even close to organized enough to orchestrate such a grand plan.”
He concludes by claiming critics of the “mainstream” media want them to disappear: “Whether you like or agree with an independent media all the time — breaking news: you won’t! — you should value an entity that does its best to hold those in power accountable.”
Perhaps Cillizza and his media friends could start with more humility. With their business models collapsing, in print and on the air, it might be time to try and connect with the disaffected majority, not just spit on them as rage-spewing partisans ruining the country.
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Thu Sep 24, 2015 at 08:07 PM PDT.
Why Does the Media Hate the Clintons? Chris Cillizza begged this question.
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‘Doctor, heal thyself’: WaPo’s Chris Cillizza blames distrust in media on WHAT?
Posted at 9:45 pm on September 28, 2015 by Twitchy Staff
What would you call the JournoList if not “organized?”
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