He can lay his head down next to hard work and go right to sleep.
Posted on 01/14/2018 12:49:26 PM PST by billorites
Rep. Trey Gowdy stepped down from the House Ethics Committee this week after five years of serving on the panel. The South Carolina Republican tendered his resignation in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday, the details of which were published in the Congressional Record on Thursday and reported by news outlets later in the week. When he was named Chairman of the House Oversight Committee in June, Gowdy asked House leadership to take him off of one of his four committees, according to a spokesperson for Gowdy. "Four committee assignments, including a chairmanship, is a challenging workload," Gowdy wrote in his letter.
Gowdy added, "I was happy to finish out the calendar year and conclude some matters then pending before the committee."
Besides serving as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Gowdy serves on the Intelligence and Judiciary committees. Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong also said Gowdy requested to be relieved of his duties from the Ethics Committee if he won the Oversight Committee chairmanship given the increased workload. "We are grateful for his five years of service on the Ethics Committee and for agreeing to serve the remainder of the calendar year," she said.
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For a guy who likes to give the appearance of being so smart and incisive, he sure didn’t accomplish anything at all. I wonder if that was his real job to begin with?
Smokescreen, distractor, phony provocateur
This guy was on TV so much he didn’t have time to do his real job !
“Workload”?
Well, it’s a load of something....
Good, he was useless in that position.
How much MSM exposure did the Clinton home fire in Chappaqua get? Google it and you will find confusing stories...I had to specifically search for the Fox News report. Pictures of different houses supposedly belonging to the Clinton's......
He can lay his head down next to hard work and go right to sleep.
He has the power to question, not prosecute.
He accomplished a great deal and once again folks wish to selectively take the sins of the present (inept AG) and place them at Gowdy’s doorstep. He did his constitutionally mandated duty and uncovered a great deal through testimony including perjury, RICO, “gross negligence, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, destruction of evidence and I could go on and on.
He took his case NIGHTLY before the public in the hopes the same inept public would apply pressure to the DEMOCRATIC AG, DOJ AND PRESIDENT to bring charges. But in a time of Nationalist populism truth comes secondary to cheerleading where facts matter less than reality. You expected a democratic administration to bring charges? Pfffft.
But here we are here today....The evidence did not magically whisk itself away. All that testimony is in record and the best former prosecutor of all time brought it to light. So I ask where are the indictments from the DOJ this AG (who does report to our President BTW)? There is enough evidence there that a junior undergrad law student would get convictions. See Gowdy did his constitutionally mandated duties and brought them forth to the public for the world to see.
He isn’t Judge Dredd, he isn’t superhero Superman, he is a Congressman and that is all. He can’t convene a grand jury, indict, try, render verdict, sentence, process, transport to prison, act as warden and monitor sentence. Take your snide comments related to Gowdy and apply them where they belong; under this administration’s DOJ.....I know that’s hard within a Nationalist populist movement to actually critique a present admin but the ball is in their court
I don't know about nightly but I saw him tell the world three or four times what a great, wise, fair and impartial man we have in Robert Mueller.
10 and do contact if you have any remaining questions
no, it’s simpler than that. The self righteous purists just like to bitch and moan and exclaim their purity
So what!? He got something wrong. That happens and it’s a fact of life. In the capacity he knew him he was probably right and snookered. Thus mmmmm he did his job and some folks just can’t square that in their heads. So back to topic, where are the indictments based on what he uncovered before the public? That is the job of this administration’s DOJ; no longer Gowdy’s
Wrong. He has the power of criminal referrals to DOJ when he believes
someone has committed perjury in committee hearings.
And where there’s a lack of criminal referral because of compelling testimony the DOJ can indict themselves. That’s an excuse used to supplant an inept AG and DOJ. You don’t have to have these so called “referrals” to bring forth charges. So what other reasons are there the DOJ isn’t bringing indictments based on the evidence that’s there? No more pointing fingers at the boogie man
Do you really think holder would have followed through?
Congress and ethics? What, do they meet once a century? Certainly can’t interfere much with his workload. Likely another reason he’s stepping out of the limelight.
Rep. Gowdy’s work with the House Select Committee on Benghazi is what started the downfall of Hillary Clinton and set the stage for the election of President Trump. Gowdy got tagged with the Chair of the committee. It was his investigatory work that turned up and made public the fact that Clinton was using a private server to store her official and classified e-mails instead of the legally mandated State Department server. Because of this discovery operatives in the FBI, CIA and NSA among others had to CY Hillary’s A. Trump was able to rightfully campaign on the issue of two-tiered justice where submariner’s go to jail and liberal elites get rich. The cover up was almost as bad as the crime. Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page all have been ensnared with the cover-up and has undermined the Mueller investigation. Speaking of, because of Hillary’s weakness the Obama cabal had to concoct the Steele dossier which if IG Horowitz is the investigator that I think he is will provide Gowdy and Jeff Sessions, that’s right Sessions, with plenty of ammo to take a big bite out of the swamp. Gowdy’s work on Benghazi was the opening salvo in making all of this happen. He did his investigation the right way. He had dimotards like Elijah Cummings, the MSM, deep state operatives like Comey and Lynch working against him. If he had been the director of the FBI I have no doubt that Hillary would be in jail but as a House committee chair he didn’t have that constitutional mandate. I am beginning to believe that Gowdy is scaring the bejesus out of folks and that he is why he is being attacked so aggressively. You Gowdy haters need to step back and take a deep breath. He has and folks like Jason Chavetz and others created the conditions to take down the deep state. Cut the man some slack.
PS GO CATS!!!!
No. But that does not preclude Rooster Head from still making a referral when necessary.
What Obama’s DOJ or Sessions DOJ decided to do with the referral
is up to them.
The issue is congressional committee’s do have more power than
just chest pounding and Kabuki Theatre.
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