Meet Trey Gowdy, RINO

by JASmius



We've been huge fans of the fiery South Carolina congressman over the past few years here at PP.  We've trafficked heavily in "Gowdy-porn," in which the ex-prosecutor trafficked heavily in right-wing red meat, blasting precisely the people - leftwingnut Democrats - who deserved it in precisely the way they needed to be blasted.  It's what earned him his post as Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi almost a year ago.  It was awesome.  Finally the best constitutionalist on Capitol Hill was going to be turned loose on what many consider to be the most egregious of Obama scandals, the Benghazi atrocity and Islamophilic cover-up.  Damn the torpedoes, full-speed ahead, ready or not, here we come!

And since then, we've heard.....



And then today Chairman Gowdy righteously ripped forth again:

There are still significant gaps in the emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has turned over to the committee investigating the Benghazi terror attacks, Representative Trey Gowdy said Sunday, including from the day a now-iconic photo of her was taken while she was flying to Libya.

"There are gaps of months and months and months," Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican and head of the House select committee on Benghazi, told CBS' Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer.

"If you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya, sunglasses on, she has her handheld device in her hand, [but] we have no emails from that day. In fact, we have no emails from that trip."....

"It strains credibility to believe that if you’re on your way to Libya to discuss Libyan policy that there’s not a single document has been turned over to Congress," said Gowdy.

Gowdy is, of course, absolutely right.  There's nothing whatsoever wrong with anything he said to Bob Schieffer.  The problem is the timing.  It almost seems like Gowdy is using the opportunity of the Hillary! email kerfuffle to surface and give the crickets a long-overdue and well-deserved breather before he disappears back down his burrow like Puxatawney Phil after emerging before five megawatt stadium lights.

Andy McCarthy has taken definite and harsh notice:

In assessing the Benghazi select committee headed up by Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC4), there are two possibilities, and they are not mutually exclusive: (1) The committee is just a Potemkin probe erected by the Republican establishment to get restive conservatives to pipe down, and (2) the committee is incompetent....

The select committee’s ten sleepy months of operation have not warranted much attention — except to observe its lethargy. But questions about it arise thanks to the newly erupted Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Mostly, it is one question: Why is the scandal newly erupted?....

In Washington’s best headline-grabbing fashion, Chairman Gowdy leaped on the latest Clinton scandal to announce that his Benghazi committee, on Wednesday, issued subpoenas for all of Clinton’s communications related to Libya. On the same day, the committee subpoenaed the State Department “for other individuals who have information pertinent to the investigation,” and issued “preservation letters” to telecom firms directing them to retain potentially relevant documents.

What on Earth took them so long?

That question turns out to have an enormously more outrageous genesis than just the past ten months' lethargic hibernation:

Speaking of which, Gowdy let something else slip while unburdening himself to Politico: he and his committee have known since last summer that Mrs. Clinton conducted business by private e-mail.

So what you’re just finding out now, Gowdy has known for at least six months. So what did he do about it? According to Politico, “He said the committee has worked with Clinton advisers and the department to gain access to documents relating to the Benghazi attacks.”

Fabulous! Gowdy just got finished railing about how Clinton used private e-mail precisely to avoid the government-mandated paper trail. So what’s he been doing about it for six months? Discussing the matter with Clinton’s loyal staffers — i.e., people who helped her carry out the scheme — and with the State Department — i.e., the people he just got done telling you have neither the relevant e-mails nor access to them.

That’s it: no subpoenas, no hearings, no nothing. Just as Mrs. Clinton did not turn over any of her private e-mails until the State Department finally asked for them, Gowdy, by his own account, did not issue a subpoena to address a scandal he has long known about until the scandal became public.

That in itself is a scandal. [emphases added]

Here's the reality, keeds: Benghazigate was rendered moot on November 6th, 2012.  When Barack Obama was re-elected, it guaranteed that the scandal would never be investigated in anything but a, well, "potemkin" sense,  Maybe it would redundantly cost Mrs. Clinton her delusional presidential dream, but it would never touch the Donk demigod.  Ever.  So even if Trey Gowdy and the House Select Committee on Benghazi had been an Issa-esque whirling dervish of activity, spewing out blizzards of subpoenas and holding hearings 24/7/365, he and they wouldn't have accomplished a damn thing as far as bringing to justice the animals who stood back and allowed a U.S. ambassador, embassy employee, and two heroic ex-Navy SEALS perish at the hands of the nation's enemies and Barack Obama's friends, and then Islamophilically smeared a YouTube video for their own crimes.

But Trey Gowdy and the House Select Committee on Benghazi have not been a whirling dervish of avenging angel activity.  He, and they, have been sitting there for ten months with their thumbs up their asses.

And please, TPers, don't try to shield Gowdy by trying to claim that John Boehner ordered him to stand down and stay that way.  That was not the terms under which the HSCB was set up, it was stocked full of prosecutors on the GOP side, and if anybody should be more difficult for the Speaker to put on a leash, it ought to have been Trey Gowdy.

No, ladies and gentlemen, he hasn't even tried to advance the Benghazi ball because he has chosen not to.  Because he has "gone native".

Because Trey Gowdy is now....a RINO.

And if the "establishment" can geld Trey Gowdy, then we have got precisely zero chance at resurrecting the Old American Republic.

Just as I've argued all along.

Time to switch permanently into Cicero mode, people.  Because We, The People of today are doomed.