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RE: What has lead you to believe that
Posted on: February 8, 2018 at 08:44:22 CT
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Gowdy voted against the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act.
Rep. Gowdy voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act (then again, every Republican in the Senate and House did, along party lines).
Trey Gowdy considers himself not to be “pro-life”, but “Pro-Life Plus”. What exactly does the “plus” in that mean? That he shouldn’t be sitting around waiting for Roe Vs. Wade to be overturned, and govern without considering what those pesky Supreme Court Justices think.
Gowdy signed the “Contract From America”, that promised to “defund, repeal, and replace Obamacare” and he voted “yes” on the Ryan Budget plan that cuts money from Medicare.
Gowdy has advocated placing reporters on trial for reporting on classified information if it is leaked to them.
“Put them in front of the grand jury. You either answer the question or you’re going to be held in contempt and go to jail, which is what I thought all reporters aspire to do anyway. I mean all of us aspire to be committee chairmen. I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter’s resume to actually go to jail protecting a source. Give them what they want!”
Apparently he skipped over the part of the Constitution about the freedom of the press.
Nancy Pelosi suggested in 2012 that Republicans were attacking Attorney General Eric Holder’s credibility because of actions he took to curtail their attempts at voter suppression that year. Gowdy dismissed that by calling the former Speaker of the House “mind-numbingly stupid”.
Amidst claims that the GOP’s push for stricter voter ID laws was an attempt to restrict voting for minorities, who tend to vote Democratic, Gowdy laughed that off by pointing out South Carolina had elected a few minorities. That doesn’t exactly prove it doesn’t exist, or the intent. Especially when, y’know, they’re still pretty racist.
Now, as far as “jumping on the bandwagon late” with causes the GOP has, here’s where Gowdy really stands out:
Towards the end of the 2013 Government Shutdown, Gowdy berated the U.S. Parks Services Director, Jonathon Jarvis, for shutting down the World War II Memorial, while “favoring pot-smoking Occupiers”.
The problem with that? First, the public already didn’t buy what the GOP were selling on “World War II Memorial Shut Down” outrage during the government shutdown (that Gowdy voted to start, and voted against ending). Polling data the Republicans had already was clear this would gain him zero traction. Second? The Occupy Movement was at its peak two years earlier, and Zuccotti Park, the “ground zero” of the movement was not a national park. It is privately owned, and its use was allowed by Brookfield Properties. In other words, the double-standard Gowdy was trying to accuse Jarvis of didn’t exist.
Gowdy also took part in the IRS Scandal hearings, voting to hold Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for invoking her constitutional right to plead the 5th amendment during the hearing.
It was the first time someone had been held in contempt for using their constitutional right since… Joe McCarthy, during the Red Scare. It also proved to not lead to charges by federal prosecutors because Lerner was within her rights.
As the GOP continued to be unable to find evidence in the IRS Scandal, Gowdy tried to bring it back to the forefront, anyway, saying he’d like to “torture IRS employees like Jack Bauer from ‘24’” so he could get answers.
Gowdy was tapped to lead a hearing on Benghazi by John Boehner, and was chomping at the bit to do it, feeling like he could prove malfeasance leading all the way up to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton or President Obama where House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa had failed to provide a solid link.
Heck, all along the way, Gowdy had criticized the media for having the nerve to report that they could find no evidence of any wrongdoing by anyone within the Obama administration, and claimed it was only because they were trying to bury the story to help a potential Hilary Clinton presidential run in 2016.
Gowdy claimed he would get to the bottom of the non-existent cover up, and get answers to the 3 questions people were demanding answers to (that had already been answered). Three months later, however, in August 2014. the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee issued a statement that after 18 months of trying to whip up the nation into a frenzy over imagined wrongdoings in the handling of the attack on Benghazi, had to admit they had found no wrongdoing.
When the hearings finally happened in September 2014, the “trial” that Gowdy had promised never came to pass, and he was all but cowed by Democrats on the panel, who simply wanted to work to prevent future attacks on embassies.
Rep. Gowdy voted against the Paycheck Fairness Act (then again, every Republican in the Senate and House did, along party lines).
Trey Gowdy considers himself not to be “pro-life”, but “Pro-Life Plus”. What exactly does the “plus” in that mean? That he shouldn’t be sitting around waiting for Roe Vs. Wade to be overturned, and govern without considering what those pesky Supreme Court Justices think.
Gowdy signed the “Contract From America”, that promised to “defund, repeal, and replace Obamacare” and he voted “yes” on the Ryan Budget plan that cuts money from Medicare.
Gowdy has advocated placing reporters on trial for reporting on classified information if it is leaked to them.
“Put them in front of the grand jury. You either answer the question or you’re going to be held in contempt and go to jail, which is what I thought all reporters aspire to do anyway. I mean all of us aspire to be committee chairmen. I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter’s resume to actually go to jail protecting a source. Give them what they want!”
Apparently he skipped over the part of the Constitution about the freedom of the press.
Nancy Pelosi suggested in 2012 that Republicans were attacking Attorney General Eric Holder’s credibility because of actions he took to curtail their attempts at voter suppression that year. Gowdy dismissed that by calling the former Speaker of the House “mind-numbingly stupid”.
Amidst claims that the GOP’s push for stricter voter ID laws was an attempt to restrict voting for minorities, who tend to vote Democratic, Gowdy laughed that off by pointing out South Carolina had elected a few minorities. That doesn’t exactly prove it doesn’t exist, or the intent. Especially when, y’know, they’re still pretty racist.
Now, as far as “jumping on the bandwagon late” with causes the GOP has, here’s where Gowdy really stands out:
Towards the end of the 2013 Government Shutdown, Gowdy berated the U.S. Parks Services Director, Jonathon Jarvis, for shutting down the World War II Memorial, while “favoring pot-smoking Occupiers”.
The problem with that? First, the public already didn’t buy what the GOP were selling on “World War II Memorial Shut Down” outrage during the government shutdown (that Gowdy voted to start, and voted against ending). Polling data the Republicans had already was clear this would gain him zero traction. Second? The Occupy Movement was at its peak two years earlier, and Zuccotti Park, the “ground zero” of the movement was not a national park. It is privately owned, and its use was allowed by Brookfield Properties. In other words, the double-standard Gowdy was trying to accuse Jarvis of didn’t exist.
Gowdy also took part in the IRS Scandal hearings, voting to hold Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for invoking her constitutional right to plead the 5th amendment during the hearing.
It was the first time someone had been held in contempt for using their constitutional right since… Joe McCarthy, during the Red Scare. It also proved to not lead to charges by federal prosecutors because Lerner was within her rights.
As the GOP continued to be unable to find evidence in the IRS Scandal, Gowdy tried to bring it back to the forefront, anyway, saying he’d like to “torture IRS employees like Jack Bauer from ‘24’” so he could get answers.
Gowdy was tapped to lead a hearing on Benghazi by John Boehner, and was chomping at the bit to do it, feeling like he could prove malfeasance leading all the way up to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton or President Obama where House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa had failed to provide a solid link.
Heck, all along the way, Gowdy had criticized the media for having the nerve to report that they could find no evidence of any wrongdoing by anyone within the Obama administration, and claimed it was only because they were trying to bury the story to help a potential Hilary Clinton presidential run in 2016.
Gowdy claimed he would get to the bottom of the non-existent cover up, and get answers to the 3 questions people were demanding answers to (that had already been answered). Three months later, however, in August 2014. the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee issued a statement that after 18 months of trying to whip up the nation into a frenzy over imagined wrongdoings in the handling of the attack on Benghazi, had to admit they had found no wrongdoing.
When the hearings finally happened in September 2014, the “trial” that Gowdy had promised never came to pass, and he was all but cowed by Democrats on the panel, who simply wanted to work to prevent future attacks on embassies.
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RE: What has lead you to believe that - JayHoaxH8r MU - 2/8 08:44:22