Conservatives float Trey Gowdy as next House majority leader

[Purveyor]

Source: Washington Post

By Mike DeBonis and Robert Costa September 29 at 10:45 AM

House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

A long-simmering campaign among conservative activists to draft Rep. Trey Gowdy into a House leadership post has suddenly re-emerged in the scramble following House Speaker John A. Boehner’s resignation.

A movement to pull Gowdy into the race for majority leader began to rapidly pick up momentum Tuesday morning, with several Republican members from across the ideological spectrum saying they have personally asked the South Carolina Republican to jump into the contest.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a Gowdy friend, kicked off the calls on Fox News Channel Tuesday morning: “If you want the best person to make the Republican case, if you want the best person to talk about why conservatism is the right answer for America, Trey Gowdy is our best foot forward.”

Meanwhile, Texas Rep. Pete Sessions — the former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee and ex-House Rules Committee chair — threw his hat into the ring for the job of majority whip. Reps. Patrick McHenry (N.C.) and Dennis Ross (Fla.) are also competing for the third-ranked leadership job. Rep. Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) is a possible candidate.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/09/29/trey-gowdy-for-house-majority-leader/

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Boehner’s resignation may very well be the best thing that happens for the democrats come 2016...

[Johnny2X2X]

1. What about the other guy?

So the White Supremacist Keynote Speaker wasn't conservative enough?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. BENGHAZI!!!!11! nt

[underpants]

6. All this poo flinging has soiled his "linens"

Actually this should be fun to watch. We all just have to wait until Fox News allocates out the positions.

[MynameisBlarney]

9. It's gonna be hilarious

[Joey Liberal]

2. I hope it's Gowdy

He's a nutcase. He would be the gift that keeps on giving to the Dems .

[hobbit709]

3. Zippy for Speaker.

[dmosh42]

4. Race to the bottom!

[Botany]

7. Maybe there is a God

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He is goofy and dumb so please make this whack job majority leader. He is so nutty
that even w/all the gerrymandering the dems could take back the House.

[olegramps]

8. He is a powerful reason I am an agnostic.

An omnipotent God could not have made this atrocious mistake unless he had a wrapped sense of humor.

[erronis]

14. Where do they find these leavings? Failed "businessmen", idiot sons of tycoons?

Along with the 14-18 stupids running in this party for president.

I understand that the eventual goal is the complete evisceration of government so the capitalists can continue unencumbered.

But couldn't you plutocrats just be a little more subtle about your disdain of the country?

[Botany]

15. As a little boy in a very middle class neighborhood in PA our next door neighbor's brother

was governor of PA. It was a different time but he would play w/the kids in the neighborhood,
he was left alone to visit his family, he was great guy, he was for education, the environment,
civil rights, infrastructure, unions, and "the common good" too. BTW he was a republican too.

He would have no home in the republican party today and he would have had zero time for
Trey Gowdy too because he very very smart and liked to get things done.

The party of Abe Lincoln, Ike, and Margaret Chase Smith has become the party of helping
the rich, hurting the common good, and religious whack jobs


Ray Shafer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_P._Shafer

[erronis]

16. I grew up in the 50's in a very republican part of NY

and the vast majority of citizens and office holders were decent and caring.

Something happened along the way to polarize everyone into two (or more) camps. Personally I can't identify this as coming from the left/liberal side but it's possible. Perhaps it came via the need of the media to get more eyeballs/advertising.

If we're lucky they will split into a whacko and a normal group and we can get back to real business.

[forest444]

18. Speaker Dowdy Doody

Kind's has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

[stage left]

10. OMG!

I'm speechless.

[Thor_MN]

11. Harold Watson should be floated in the Potomac

but that would be polluting...

[Shadowflash]

12. haha!

http://www.sadtrombone.com/

[KansDem]

13. Trey Gowdy, "On the Issues"

http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Trey_Gowdy.htm

[Judi Lynn]

17. Difficult choice. So many winners in the running! Wow.

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[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

19. Gowdy is as loony as Gohmert! I am still pulling for Louie but Trey would be just good!

Mr President get yer veto pen ready cuz that is all you will be doing soon!

[c588415]

20. What's up with that bird nest on top of Gowdy's head?

[Skittles]

21. LOL

[libodem]

22. With that guy's hair?

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Wadda you nuts?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/this-man-has-the-most-confusing-hair-in-congress#.ct5LXxOg8

[libodem]

23. Kick

[Darb]

24. WhooHoo, House of Slytherin reigns!!!!

Draco Malfoy for majority leader!!!

[dembotoz]

25. damn it you are right i see the similarity

[tularetom]

26. I was thinking Ed Grimley

But yeah, Gowdy does have that Malfoyish smirky thing about him.