Because Adam and Cheryl know what they are talking about, they are restricted in what they can write concerning the fustercluck currently unfolding like the badly mishandled demolition of a hazardous-materials storage warehouse. Because all *I* know is what I read on the internet, I can share random tweets and chunks of news without any more fear of being thrown into Supermax than any other registered Democrat these days.
I will make an earnest effort to put anything that resembles “spillage” under the fold, but then again, how does someone with no security background judge?
That having been read into my permanent record, let’s talk about Trey Gowdy!
Statement: Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) leaving politics, not seeking re-election.
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) January 31, 2018
Gowdy quit the Ethics committee two weeks ago.
Getting ahead of something Trent Franks style?
— Zeddy (@Zeddary) January 31, 2018
when you want to slink off and slowly refurbish the opening grafs of your obit instead of sticking around and taking credit for the world you made https://t.co/iPNoDxxXvl
— Muscular Baby (@Mobute) January 31, 2018
I'm so confused. Why are all these Republicans retiring if they've got Democrats on the run with their wildly popular tax cut that has single-handedly ushered in our economic Golden Age? https://t.co/6eDzkiGFnd
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 31, 2018
He's not having fun anymore. He expected at least four more years of grandstanding over imaginary Hillary Clinton scandals, and all he got was a stupid MAGA hat. https://t.co/r12Sme4fbl
— Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) January 31, 2018
… Mr. Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor who is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has been threatening to leave elected office for years. He has told associates that he wants to be a federal judge, ideally at the appellate level. On Wednesday, he said only that he planned to return to the world of criminal justice.
A person familiar with the lawmaker’s plans said that Mr. Gowdy had turned down an offer by the Trump administration to nominate him for a judgeship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and that he planned to enter private practice in South Carolina instead.
“Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system more than our political system,” he said in a statement…
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