My favorite congressman is retiring

[Hutch]

Trey Gowdy is calling it quits.  I wonder if he got an offer he couldn’t refuse?

[RoadKingLarry]

He does put on a good show with hearings.
Too bad nothing has ever come from any of it.

[HankB]

He does put on a good show with hearings.
Too bad nothing has ever come from any of it.

^^^^^^
What he said.
Like Issa before him, based on results the man is all hat and no cattle.

[230RN]

"...the man is all hat and no cattle."  LOL

I heard it once as all belt buckle, boots, and no horse.

[Ben]

Does anyone know which way it's likely to go regarding his replacement - R or D?

I also agree - I get excited about "That's what I want to hear!" when I see him running an investigation, but I don't think I have ever seen anything substantial come out of any one of them. If he had even a 50% success rate, I'd likely have said, "Gowdy for President!"

[MechAg94]

My question on the investigations is who is putting the brakes on it?  Him or the leadership behind him?  I doubt we would ever get in a position to know.

[lupinus]

I'd be extremely surprised if he was replaced with a democrat. Given the area he's in I would expect a good replacement having very good chances.

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[230RN]

But it seems the Dems are very adept at knowing how to win elections, especially in smaller local jurisdictions.  One of the reasons for this is that their "opponent-base" gets complacent.

[makattak]

But it seems the Dems are very adept at knowing how to win elections, especially in smaller local jurisdictions.  One of the reasons for this is that their "opponent-base" gets complacent.

Also their willingness to break laws, make up dirt, and pay people to make allegations close enough to the election that the Republicans have no time to counter them.

And that's BEFORE the voter fraud.

[MechAg94]

No need to start up with the worrying.  I would say it depends on how the district is split up.  The replacement for Ron Paul didn't have any trouble a few years ago though I don't know if he is any good.

[MikeB]

While I generally agree with the posts on a good show at hearings; but nothing comes from them. Two points. Has anything ever come from a government hearing that actually improved government or stopped abuses of government? Second point. We would most likely not have known about Hillary’s email server without the Benghazi hearings, so while the hearings didn’t do much about the incompetence of the Obama administration; it did in fact lead to the exposure of the Hillary Server/emails. Which may have helped stop her from being elected.

[MechAg94]

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/31/gowdy-approached-federal-judgeship/

A White House official confirmed that Gowdy was approached for a seat on the 4th Circuit, but declined the offer.

[Perd Hapley]

While I generally agree with the posts on a good show at hearings; but nothing comes from them. Two points. Has anything ever come from a government hearing that actually improved government or stopped abuses of government? Second point. We would most likely not have known about Hillary’s email server without the Benghazi hearings, so while the hearings didn’t do much about the incompetence of the Obama administration; it did in fact lead to the exposure of the Hillary Server/emails. Which may have helped stop her from being elected.

Concur.

[Jocassee]

There's an entire Congress up there, of which Trey Gowdy is a very visible part. But he's not the only one and I don't think it's fair to lay the blame on him alone. That said, I think Mr. Gowdy's work during the Obama years laid the groundwork for what is happening today with the IG report that is coming up, and today's House memo.

Especially knowing what we now know about how incredibly corrupt the Obama machine was from top to bottom, not to mention the spaghetti-spined NeverTrumpers, I'm not surprised Gowdy was not as successful as we would have liked. It was a stacked deck.

[Jocassee]

As far as the election itself, there is approximately a 0.0% chance that a democrat will be elected to fill his seat. Greenville and Spartanburg are very red counties.

[lupinus]

As far as the election itself, there is approximately a 0.0% chance that a democrat will be elected to fill his seat. Greenville and Spartanburg are very red counties.

To clarify, I'm surprised the elected someone as mild and cozy with the left and Growdy.

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[Ben]

I'm not surprised Gowdy was not as successful as we would have liked. It was a stacked deck.

No argument there.

[MechAg94]

There's an entire Congress up there, of which Trey Gowdy is a very visible part. But he's not the only one and I don't think it's fair to lay the blame on him alone. That said, I think Mr. Gowdy's work during the Obama years laid the groundwork for what is happening today with the IG report that is coming up, and today's House memo.

Especially knowing what we now know about how incredibly corrupt the Obama machine was from top to bottom, not to mention the spaghetti-spined NeverTrumpers, I'm not surprised Gowdy was not as successful as we would have liked. It was a stacked deck.

First, I don't know if we really want Congress to be our enforcement tool.  That should be on the Executive Branch.  What they should do is cut off funding for various things until they get the attention of these agencies.  However, that didn't happen and wasn't going to with the leadership up there.  I am not sure about the current Speaker, but Boenner seemed terribly weak on all but a few issues. 

Second, what he did do was highlight a lot of the things the administration was doing in a public and official way that could not be easily dismissed.  As Jocasee said, it laid the ground work for what we see now as well as pissing off a bunch of voters to the point that an outsider like Trump got elected.  

[Regolith]

"Retiring" is my favorite type of congressman as well.